A spokesperson for campaign group Barbican Quarter Action (BQA) said the height reduction was welcome but “brings no relief”.<\/p>\n
Under the revised design, the western tower’s 17 storeys would still be three storeys taller than the current block, while the eastern tower remains 20 storeys above the ground.<\/p>\n
The amendments will significantly reduce the loss of daylight to neighbouring homes, it is claimed, with the Barbican’s Speed House and Cromwell Tower particularly close by.<\/p>\n
The adjustments will mean 5% less office floorspace than first proposed.<\/p>\n
Despite this, the BQA spokesperson told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “No, the developer has not listened. Consultation fell on deaf ears, as these revisions demonstrate.”<\/p>\n
They added that trimming the western end “is a token gesture that brings no relief” and that the building will “steal light and privacy”.<\/p>\n
The group pointed to other developments near the Barbican, including London Wall Place by MAKE and 88 Wood Street by Richard Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, as examples showing “that profitability and respectful, proud and civic architecture can go hand in hand”.<\/p>\n
They continued: “Here at 1 Silk Street, it is obvious that developer and architect have lost that last bit of ambition and appreciation they had for the building, site, and context from the outset.”<\/p>\n
BQA said they hoped the design team would be “sent back to the drawing board”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spokesperson for campaign group Barbican Quarter Action (BQA) said the height reduction was welcome but “brings no…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-446395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}