Embankment Place
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Redevelopment of Charing Cross train station incorporating new offices and retail space
Embankment Place is a major multi-dimensional development complex using the air rights over Charing Cross Station in Central London on the River Thames. Large uninterrupted office floor plates rising nine storeys over the tracks use a very innovative and ambitious structural approach to achieve large scale development.
Retail and restaurant accommodation is distributed in the vaults below the station and in a new infill building which completes the streetscape to the adjoining Villiers Street.
A further area of retail has been inserted under the Hungerford Railway Bridge framed by two new Porticos that act as vehicular entrances to the development, giving it a presence on the major thoroughfare of Northumberland Avenue.
Data
- Begun: 1985
- Completed: Nov 1990
- Floor area: 35,000m2
- Sectors: Office, Retail, Transport
- Total cost: £100M
- Address: 1 Embankment Place, London, WC2N 6DX, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Terry Farrell and Partners
- Client: Greycoat PLC
- Structural engineer: Arup
- Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Quantity surveyor: Mott Green and Wall
- Management Contractor: Laing Management
- Landscape architect: Cloustons
- Landscape Surveyor: Aworth land Surveyors
Suppliers
- Curtain walling and Cladding: Josef Gartner & Co
- Primary Steelwork: Redpath Dorman Long
- Concrete Superstructure: Diespeker
- Building management system: Honeywell
- Brickwork: Vogue Developments
- Architectural metalwork: The Wessex Guild
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