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257 City Road, Islington
Canaletto Development in Islington: London Residential Tower, UK – design by UNStudio
29 Jan 2017
Canaletto Tower, 257 City Road
Canaletto Tower at 257 City Road
Design: UNStudio, architects
Apartments are not cheap, with £3.5m for a three-bedroom flat.

photo by David Holt, on Flickr
Orion Capital Managers, backer of Canaletto, has “come up with an enclosed world, where several aspects of human existence are served”, reports Rowan Moore in The Guardian today.
“It all takes place within a singular building, triangular in plan and dominated by curving frames, each containing a portion of three or two storeys. It is an efflorescence of the globalised residential property market, its signature stylings looking more like similar blocks in Singapore or Abu Dhabi than the surrounding brick terraces and warehouses.”
photo by SE9, on Flickr
Apparently the building name came from a company called Socrates Communications – generated from the fact it is on water, and “when Canaletto was painting it was a time of a lot of change and modernization”. Fascinating!
source: Canaletto Tower, 257 City Road – The Guardian article in full
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