Description of 150 Bishopsgate

150 Bishopsgate is a mixed use development comprising a luxury hotel, residential accommodation and retail uses (A1 - A3) in the City of London EC2.

The 43 storey tower will include London’s first Pan Pacific Hotel providing 5-star wellness, meeting and events spaces and a 380 seat double height ballroom/conference facility. 160 private residences will be at the upper levels of the main tower building.

Also known as Bishopsgate Plaza and Heron Plaza.

The Heron Plaza site provides unique planning consent to deliver a luxury new-build hotel and residential development in the City of London. The site has consent for an iconic 43-storey tower, designed by PLP Architecture, comprising approximately 562,000 sq ft gross floor area (340,000 sq ft net area) of 5-star luxury hotel, residential apartments and retail component. UOL will operate the hotel under its flagship “Pan Pacific” hotel brand.

The development will create a new public space animated by shops and cafes at its edges whilst retaining the most characteristic buildings on Bishopsgate and Devonshire Row which will be renovated to form an integral part of the new development.

It will create an organic cluster which clearly identifies the City's financial centre and creates a transition from the large scale of the commercial core to the lower scale of the Bishopsgate Conservation Area. The proposals also support the mixed use urban regeneration that has been underway around Spitalfields Market northeast side of the site over the last ten years. The market is a centre for diverse retail, restaurant and café uses which bring vitality to an area which formerly had limited activity outside the working week. In addition, the completed Heron Plaza establishes strong links both to the commercial quarter itself and the mixed use urban quarter to its north.

The hotel and residential tower is more private and finely scaled than the workspace of the Heron Tower. It will have an external screen which will be constructed from a patinated natural copper alloy whose material tone and warmth will provide contrast and balance to the stainless steel to the Salesforce Tower.

The site is located at 142-150 Bishopsgate and 1-7 Devonshire Row (odd numbers), relocation of 1 Stone House Court and redevelopment of Stone House (128-148 Bishopgate and 77-84 Houndsditch) and Staple Hall (87-90 Houndsditch), 1,3 and 5 Stone House Court.

The site is UOL's first investment in Europe. Freehold land of 3,200 sqm.

MSMR is providing space planning and interior architect services on the residential element.

Source: Heron International

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