51°30′57.1″N 00°07′46.9″W / 51.515861°N 0.129694°W
Centre Point | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Type | Residential (converted from commercial) |
Architectural style | Modernist |
Address | New Oxford Street |
Town or city | London, WC1 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Construction started | 1963 |
Completed | 1966 |
Renovated | 2016–18 |
Height | 117m (385ft) |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Reinforced concrete |
Floor count | 34 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | George Marsh |
Architecture firm | R. Seifert and Partners |
Structural engineer | Pell Frischmann |
Main contractor | Wimpey Construction |
Website | |
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Centre Point is a building in Central London, comprising a 34-storey tower; a 9-storey block to the east including shops, offices, retail units and maisonettes; and a linking block between the two at first-floor level.[1] It occupies 101–103 New Oxford Street and 5–24 St Giles High Street, WC1, with a frontage also to Charing Cross Road,[1] close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. The site was once occupied by a gallows,[2] and the tower sits directly over the former route of St Giles High Street, which had to be re-routed for the construction.
The building is 117 m (385 ft) high, has 34 floors[3] and 27,180 m2 (292,563 sq ft) of floor space. Constructed from 1963 to 1966, it was one of the first skyscrapers in London, and as of 2009[update] was the city's joint 27th-tallest building.[4] It stood empty from the time of its completion until 1975,[5] and was briefly occupied by housing activists in 1974. Since 1995 it has been a Grade II listed building.[6] In 2015, it was converted from office space to flats.[7]
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