After leaving his footprint —and the billions in cost overruns— in New York, Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has announced its first project in the other capital of the world: London. "Peninsula Place" will occupy a total of 130,000 square metres on the peninsula of Greenwich, along the Thames.
With a budget of 1,000 million pounds (1.260 million), Peninsula Place will form part of the largest urban regeneration project in Europe, which was commissioned by the city of London to the real estate company Knight Dragon for a whopping £8.400 million ($ 10.560 million).
The space of Calatrava will have a metro and bus station, a theatre, a cinema, a place for performances, bars, shops, a wellness centre and a square of 24 meters high and is covered by galleries of glass, all of this crowned by three large towers oblique which will house offices, apartments and hotels. The space is in turn connected to the Thames by a new bridge that will cross the ground nearly to the height of the street.
"it Is an honor to design a piece so large the fabric of London, a city I love," said Calatrava in an event attended by the mayor of London. "In designing this scheme, I was inspired by the rich architectural heritage of London and the geography is very special on the peninsula."
[Calatrava via 20minutes]
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