72 Upper Ground, Formerly the As Through the Included Feedback Form

UPPER 72 GROUND givemyview.com/72upperground [email protected] 020 3633 5902 Meet the team

Mitsubishi Estate is one of Japan’s leading property companies who last year bought the vacant site from ITV PLC with plans to transform the building into a new, world-class scheme for London. Mitsubishi Estate London has led on a number of landmark schemes including the redevelopment of Paternoster Square, next to St Paul’s Cathedral.

Introduction

Mitsubishi Estate London and CO-RE inform you of our plans with the opportunity to are working with Make Architects on the feedback through two online webinars as well Central London-focused developer redevelopment of 72 Upper Ground, formerly the as through the included feedback form. You can CO—RE has been appointed as the London Studios, to create a new commercially also view details of our application and sign up to development manager. The company 02 led destination for the South Bank. the webinars on our website: has enormous experience, having 03 https://www.givemyview.com/72upperground/ delivered over 3 million sq ft of By now, you may well be aware of our intentions news commercial space and has incredible for the site from our previous consultation in schemes such as 10 Fenchurch October 2020, which included two virtual Q&A If you have any further questions please do email Avenue, a recently completed scheme webinars for local residents and workers. We [email protected] in the City of London with a publicly- greatly appreciated the feedback including or call 020 3633 5902. accessible rooftop garden, in its an increase in biodiversity and open spaces, portfolio. questions on servicing and sustainability and the type of jobs that could potentially be on offer. The dates for our webinar events are:

We are now beginning the second round of our consultations, giving the local community the Saturday 27 February at 12:00pm opportunity to offer further feedback as to how Monday 1 March at 6:30pm this space will come forward. This brochure will guide you through the details of the scheme and The design of 72 Upper Ground is being undertaken by London-based World-class, high- Culture, Public spaces global architecture practice, Make. Restaurants, cafés quality workplace collaboration and Make has led on the designs of and bars Celebrating the site’s creative space Prioritising wellbeing, unique sense of innovative developments such as Creating an inclusive sustainability and Flexible cultural place and extending public destination the RIBA London Award-winning productivity, and consumption, cultural public cultural serving the needs workspace at St James’s Market appealing to a broad production, creative consumption with of the community, range of tenants, industry, collaboration new outdoor spaces as well as the mixed-use Rathbone workplace users and including creative and event space, Square scheme, just north of Oxford visitors to the South and next-generation improvements to the Bank Street. sectors workspace public domain Site Despite the site’s excellent location, the current building (adjacent) is outdated having been built Festival Pier Blackfriars Station specifically for LWT in 1972 and provides no Sitting to the south of the River Thames and the River services National Rail Queen’s Walk, 72 Upper Ground is an extremely (7-minute walk) (7-minute walk) public routes within the site boundary nor any well-connected site that offers enormous active frontages to both Upper Ground and the opportunity to create an important landmark Queen’s Walk. Improving the public routes and Queen’s Walk building and improved public realm along the creating active frontages are crucial elements South Bank. to our plans. We want to deliver a scheme that Create a new route improves public access with pedestrian routes based on the desire line between between Upper Ground and Queen’s Walk, whilst 72 Upper Ground sits between the Grade II-listed Blackfriars and Waterloo transport also enhancing the local public offering. IBM Building to the west, Prince’s Wharf and nodes Gabriel’s Wharf to the east, and Upper Ground New connection between river and The regeneration of the former ITV studios offers to the south. It also has excellent transport Coin Street connections with Waterloo Station to the west huge potential on London’s iconic South Bank. and Blackfriars Station to the east. Our fresh approach and highly experienced Enhance the setting to team will transform the 1970s-built block into the Queen’s Walk and Upper Ground an exciting commercially led scheme with high-quality office space, including affordable Upper Ground workspace, new cafes and restaurants, cultural venues and wellbeing amenities such as green spaces. Waterloo Station Southwark Station National Rail and Quietway 1 London Underground London Underground (10-minute walk) (7-minute walk) This will enhance the South Bank’s cultural offering while also creating new employment, training and skills opportunities, increasing footfall and boosting the local economy at a vital time.

In keeping with the area’s architectural and 04 cultural significance, our scheme will offer a 05 vibrant mix of uses. The designs respond to and complement the traditional South Bank architecture.

Planning permission has already been granted for the demolition of the existing building and construction of a new 31-storey building which ITV had gained but decided not to pursue before Work with desire lines selling the site. to and from Waterloo emerging cluster and Waterloo Station transport node

Support a layered townscape with clear separation of taller elements

Improve setting to Upper Ground Respond to the rhythm and predominant datums of river-front buildings

Work with desire lines to and from Blackfriars Road emerging cluster and transport node Improve setting to Queen’s Walk

Improve permeability between Imagery ©2020 Bluesky, CNES / Airbus, river and streets to the south Getmapping plc, Infoterra Ltd & Bluesky, Maxar Respect the Lasdun buildings and Technologies, The GeoInformation Group. Base image ©VU.CITY 2020 the character of the South Bank

Give My View Public consultations

We worked with Give My View to conduct a comprehensive community survey of over 1,890 people Due to Covid-19 restrictions, we have held two we are keen to ensure. In addition, questions were including workers, residents, visitors and business owners. public consultations on October 17 and 26 via asked around our plans to limit air pollution and Zoom webinar. These were well attended by the noise. We’re proposing a car-free development Almost half of the respondents said that arts and culture was the most important feature of the South public, local businesses and workers, and local and want to prioritise sustainable transport, which Bank, while sustainability was the development priority for three quarters of people. groups, with very supportive feedback and ideas. includes extensive cycle parking within the site, with its own separate entrance. The new scheme Some of the key questions and points of interest will involve less of the very heavy production Three key themes emerged from the survey on the importance of the South Bank, were around the improvements to the public facilities and more working space than in the past, they were: realm and ensuring that local residents had plenty reducing the number of heavy service deliveries of space to relax and move around the area, which that the building used to get. • Heritage & identity • Location & atmosphere • Public spaces

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The arts & culture Green space is the offering is the most most important important aspect of element of the design the redevelopment to of the public61% realm 59%the community with space with of of votes. votes.

There is a consensus that the area should introduce and preserve green space which is open and accessible. This is something that we are really focusing on and want to bring forward, as we look to utilise the space far better than the existing scheme does.

Maintaining the South Bank’s clear identity is a key priority for the community and many respondents noted that all development should be in keeping with the iconic design of the area. Improving connections Economic opportunity

72 Upper Ground is in a key central London Crucially, by creating a workspace that will accommodate up to 5,000 workers, we’ll be able to deliver location, boasting incredible transport real benefits to the local economy and create new job and skills opportunities. This is a key worker connections. Given the site’s strategic location which will fulfil Lambeth Council’s desire to create a world-class workspace. importance in London’s Central Activity Zone and Lambeth’s Waterloo Opportunity Area, we There is a significant need for want to provide as many employment uses as office space that caters to small possible and unlock the full potential of the site. and medium enterprises. Lambeth

has a small business base of Workspace By opening up the site with new public walkways, approximately 11,600 active we have the opportunity to ease congestion enterprises, 87% of which employ 1 Retail

along the South Bank and improve east-west to 9 workers. However, many larger Roof-top restaurant and terrace connectivity, as well as provide a new pedestrian employers are clustered around link between Upper Ground and the Queen’s the north of the borough with little Coffee shop on ground floor Walk along our eastern boundary. These new office space that can cater to their Riverside cafes and restaurants on ground first floors routes will develop into vibrant outdoor spaces requirements. We will be able to that are connected together by a central hub. create an office ecosystem which Culture and innovation hub supports our vision of a campus Affordable workspace across first, ground and lower ground floors The central hub will provide a cultural focus for start-ups, scale-ups and to the site, comprising flexible studio and international anchor businesses, performance space that complements our providing thousands of new jobs neighbours. Expanding and enhancing the green and investment for Lambeth. infrastructure across the site will help make the South Bank more sustainable and improve air quality.

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Building form

We are not proposing to increase the height of the surrounding residences. Mid-rise elements on the building from that of the permission granted in the riverfront are designed to be deferential to the 2017, which was for 31 storeys. listed IBM Building and National Theatre and will be a maximum of 13 storeys. We are focussing the tallest portion of the building in the same location as the existing tower A podium block connects these two upper in the site’s south-west corner. This element elements but is of lower height at 6 storeys to will be 26 storeys. The building form steps sit below the LVMF view from Westminster Pier down towards the east to respect the lower-rise to St Paul’s Cathedral which passes across the townscape of Prince’s Wharf, Gabriel’s Wharf and centre of the site. Designing for the wellbeing of people and the planet

Wellbeing, sustainability and productivity

We want to extend the workspace outdoors with external terraces and balconies which give greater access to fresh air and natural light to improve the wellbeing of building occupants. Increasing people’s access to fresh air, greenery and natural light has been shown to improve their health, happiness and productivity, while also improving the general sustainability of the area, all of which are key principles of the scheme.

Materials

We are exploring a palette of high-quality articulate the soffits in copper-coloured, textured materials which are sensitive to the character of metalwork which adds further visual interest, the Conservation Area. Although the architecture warmth and human scale. Together these of the scheme references the horizontal planes materials create a calm, reflective and lightweight of the adjacent IBM Building and National Theatre, architecture which is respectful to the more this is expressed in a softer, more subtle layering monumental, solid forms of the Conservation A truly green, zero-carbon scheme of clear and opaque glass. The shifting, stacked Area’s civic buildings. building forms also present an opportunity to Fundamental to our design principles will be increasing and enhancing the public space and ensuring that the scheme is highly sustainable, targeting net-zero carbon with the highest BREEAM and WELL 10 certifications. 11

Our green spaces will not only create more aesthetically pleasing spaces but also boost biodiversity,

reduce CO2 and make for a healthier, happier destination. Cultural offer Preview

The South Bank is one of London’s most Whilst The London Studios remains in place, programme will test our Cultural Principles significant cultural destinations. we have a fantastic opportunity to utilise this for the space and provide us with a strong famous and sizeable space. understanding of the needs of occupier Our mission for the future site is to enhance this businesses, creative groups and charities; the by offering a new cultural destination, where the PREVIEW is our meanwhile programme for 72 amenities and design features that they require. best of the South Bank and Lambeth is on show. Upper Ground, running through to mid-2021. Our guiding principles for this are: The programme provides socially distanced We are already in the process of inviting studio and office spaces to a range of a selection of Lambeth organisations in • Cultural Excellence occupiers, big and small, including international need of temporary space to join PREVIEW, • Civic Pride film production companies and artist studios alongside confirming the inclusion of one of • Nextgen Talent under Proposition Studios, and Lambeth-based the largest film studios in the world as well • Creative Tech creative organisations: Young Creators, Black as a local creative social enterprise. The vast Cultural Archives and Iconic Steps. majority of this workspace is being offered at We want to create a destination which will reflect very affordable rates as part of the PREVIEW the contemporary digital and creative tech Through consultation and networking, the programme. explosion through the ecosystem of commercial The Cultural Placemaking Strategy has been office, affordable workspace, quality public informed by an audit of both Lambeth’s and the realm and culture. We’re working with cultural GLA’s relevant cultural policies and strategies. placemaking organisation FutureCity who will These set forth the cultural, community, and head up our cultural strategy. employment ambitions alongside the demand and supply for infrastructure in Cultural The creation of a new multi-functional cultural Consumption, Cultural Production and Creative destination could include, amongst others, Industries. immersive gallery and performance spaces, outdoor screenings and presentation spaces Our Strategy has involved consultation and with a river-front presence, and digital suites 12 open conversation with the London Borough of 13 and studios for cultural production. Working Lambeth and the South Bank’s leading cultural across these areas of cultural production and institutions including the National Theatre, British presentation, the aim is to bring together the Film Institute, Southbank Centre, Old Vic, Young borough’s emerging talent with leaders in their Vic and various Lambeth-based organisations. field to create a dynamic creative ecosystem All have provided valuable insight regarding the that creates pathways of opportunity for young cultural provision and future projections and creatives. This will encourage new visitors whilst goals for the borough and the local area. complementing the world-renowned culture and arts offerings already in place along the We want to complement rather than compete South Bank. with the existing cultural offerings. Workspace that encourages collaboration

The scheme will create an ecosystem of commercial space from co-working for start-ups to larger offices for anchor tenants. This will allow businesses to collaborate and grow together supporting economic growth within the South Bank. This is a huge part of our plan to nurture a local business community, which will include affordable workspace for small and medium enterprises with a focus on creative industries and cultural production.

We want to reinvigorate the 14 site and attract businesses 15 from a wide range of sectors, particularly the creative and tech industries.

We’re looking to create an active Feedback ground floor, with access to the workspace as well as a wide We are looking to submit our application in Spring 2021 but before we do, we are keen to hear from range of independent food and everyone that lives, works or visits the area. beverage offerings. We also want those to be accessible to We will be holding our second round of public consultations on Saturday 27th February at 12:00pm; everyone, serving the needs of and Monday 1st March at 6:30pm where you will have a chance to discuss these final designs, hear those who work in the building, from the team and ask any questions you may have. You can sign up for the webinars here: https:// local residents and the public www.givemyview.com/72upperground/news visiting the area. The scheme will also include a new roof- Alternatively please fill in the feedback form and return via the Freepost envelope as included. top restaurant and terrace space that will boast incredible In the meantime however, you can contact us on: [email protected] views of London’s most iconic or 020 3633 5902. landmarks. UPPER 72 GROUND

Mitsubishi Estate, CO—RE and Make are pleased to bring you our designs for 72 Upper Ground.

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