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tate co of japan formed a joint venture with legal general in 2007 to fund the estimated 450 million cost of building central saint giles 15 in addition to stanhope acting as the development managers jones lang lasalle and cushman wakefield are jointly acting as letting agents 10 work on the new development began in the same year following the demolition of st giles court 11 description of the development edit central saint giles provides 66 090 m 2 of floor space almost double that of the old st giles court split between two separate buildings the 15 storey west block is for residential use providing 109 flats of which 53 are designated as affordable 2 the much larger horseshoe shaped eastern block standing 11 storeys high encircles a publicly accessible courtyard comprising 27 of the site s area it provides 37 625 m 2 of office space with by far the largest floor plates of any office block in the west end of london with 4 000 m 2 on all but the top two floors at ground level 2 276 m 2 of space is available for retail outlets and restaurants 3 the block is irregularly shaped with recesses projections and roof terraces intended to make it look more interesting and to break up its bulk 17 the development was built on a speculative basis on the assumption that the office space would be taken by a handful of major corporate tenants 3 10 legal general s commission urged piano to avoid designing a plain vanilla office building and called for the new development to be a fantastic place for people to work as an incentive it offered to pay an extra 10 above the normal going rate for london office developments 17 piano decided to take the commission because as he put it the client and the company involved were all about long lasting quality without rushing it is very difficult to do a job with somebody who has a short vision in the end it never works 18 central saint giles central saint giles under construction in 2009 interior courtyard of central saint giles showing steven gontarski s sculpture ob 8 central saint giles from st giles high street at ground floor level the bases of the buildings are open with concrete columns visible behind seven metre high ceiling to floor windows of low iron glass which offers greater transparency than normal glass 17 the courtyard plaza is ringed with eateries and shops with two oak trees planted in the middle alongside art installations designed by the sculptors steven gontarski and rebecca warren 19 the treatment of the upper floors provides a striking contrast 134 000 green orange lime and yellow glazed terracotta tiles cover the façades in 13 irregularly oriented vertical panels on the external perimeter 3 20 the façades facing the inner courtyard are lined with another eight panels covered with grey tiles a design which project architect maurits van der staay says was intended to ensure that the upper storeys did not detract from the transparency of the ground floor and to maximise the amount of light reflected back into the offices the façades are hung on an internal chassis carrier system a similar system is in use in another piano development on berlin s potsdamer platz 2 pierced by rows of identical windows repeated across the entire development the façades are expected to be effectively self cleaning and immune to fading the colours of the façades are evoked in the design of many of the development s interior fittings such as lift door reveals handrails and lift displays 3 the tiles were produced in germany by nbk of emmerich am rhein and mounted on prefabricated façade units in wrocław poland by schneider fassadenbau 11 the development has been designed with a number of features intended to reduce its environmental impact it has received an excellent breeam rating on the basis of features that include 80 of the heating and hot water being provided by biomass boilers while all of the water discharged from the cooling tower is collected for re use in irrigation systems and the buildings flushing toilets planted roof terraces laid out by the landscape designer charles funke are intended to absorb rainfall thus reducing runoff and contribute to biodiversity in the area 19 only ten car parking spaces are available at a cost of 100 000 each due to the insistence of camden council that the development should be largely car free 21 piano has commented that he sought to create a development that brings heart and soul into a forgotten part of central london s urban fabric a place that by adding levitated articulated and colourful buildings physically expresses the people focused and socially responsible credentials of modern corporate tenants 10 he has said that his design was intended to fragment the outline of the building to make it less imposing and that the ceramic façades were inspired by the appearance of brick walls and the cases of guitars and drum kits in music shops in the vicinity 17 explaining why he chose to make the building so colourful he said the colour idea came from observing the sudden surprise given by brilliant colours in that part of the city cities should not be boring or repetitive one of the reasons cities are so beautiful and a great idea is that they are full of surprises the idea of colour represents a joyful surprise 22 the decision to provide a publicly accessible central courtyard was made as a conscious repudiation of the closed architecture of the old st giles court which piano described as a kind of fortress 18 he has said that the development s accessibility will make people warm to it as soon as people understand they can cross through the central courtyard their attitude towards it will change they will cross because it s a shortcut and it is also nicer 18 the affordable housing units of the residential part of the development were bought by the circle anglia housing association united house and londonewcastle bought the remaining units 23 which sold for prices of between 500 000 for studio flats to 5 million for the rooftop penthouse many are reported to have been sold to buyers from hong kong singapore and malaysia seeking accommodation for visits to london and for their student children 24 the office element of the complex was fully let by the end of may 2011 25 as of august 2011 commercial tenants include nbc universal google mindshare and burson marsteller and restaurants include peyton byrne and zizzi reactions edit aerial view of the london building 2013 architectural reviews in 2010 and 2011 thus contemporary were mixed the observer s critic rowan moore called the development a marmite building which passers by either hate or love he compared it to a b movie in which giant mutant chewy sweets have following a radioactive accident invaded the world nonetheless he rated central saint giles as one of the better of the recent wave of commercial civil developments in central london calling it dignified and refined and the talk of transparency and openness is genuine he praised the beautiful precision and complexity of the ceramic façade citing its depth and richness and the judgment in their precise tones 17 ike ijeh of building opined that the striking colours of central saint giles provided a contrast with the traditional london grey brown of the surrounding townscape that is both surreal and cinematic he preferred less monotony or predictability to the scheme for the windows but he gave a resounding and unequivocal yes to the question of whether the development succeeded commending it for its skilful construction of a new urban identity for a forgotten area and the generosity of its ground level engagement with context 3 jay merrick of the independent called it the most wilfully vivid mixed use building or set of buildings since number 1 poultry was built in the 1990s and noted the way that the shouty polychromatic architecture imprint s the vista with a bumptious laser etched precision however he expressed concern that the development would send the message that similar projects should convey a false sense of worth by being similarly dramatic he criticised the way that the terracotta façades presented an overall effect that was neither beautiful enough nor surreal enough to be truly remarkable presenting an effect that was striking but not resonant nothing about these façades lingers in the mind they are oddly bereft of joie de vivre 20 in architecture today neven sidor commended the development s design for reach ing out to its context at the same time as boldly asserting its own personality he commented that somehow colour therapy and fine terracotta modelling make the effect uplifting and described the vistas from the central plaza as a joy praising the skill that had gone into the design piano s standing as an international star had in sidor s view given the architect the clout to insist on the development s more unorthodox features and had been essential for such an ambitious complex to receive planning permission in the first place 26 ellis woodman of building design criticised the lurid appearance he complained that the site has been overdeveloped to my mind grotesquely so and that its visual impact was as shocking as that of any building realised in central london in 40 years he was particularly critical of the way that the colourful upper floor façades clashed with the use of lines of exposed columns at the ground level and called the site a grim compromise between two fundamentally opposed ideas of how the capital might develop on a more positive note he praised the high quality of the office space and the spectacular views from the top floors and roof terrace 2 awards edit central saint giles was nominated in november 2010 for the london planning awards under the best new place to live category 27 references edit central saint giles specification central saint giles 10 august 2011 archived from the original on 11 february 2017 retrieved 8 february 2017 1 2 3 4 5 6 woodman ellis central st giles by renzo piano 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