Canaletto Tower London Building, UNStudio Residential Property, Photos, News
Canaletto Tower London Building
257 City Road Development in Islington, UK Luxury Apartments – design by UNStudio, Architects
6 Nov 2017
Canaletto Tower Building
Canaletto Tower at 257 City Road
Design: UNStudio, architects
Designing a Vertical Community – the Canaletto Tower in London has been Completed
Monday 6th Nov 2017 – The 22,000m2 Canaletto residential tower in London employs the concept of clustering several floors together to establish a group of ?vertical communities?.

Offering waterside living, the 31-storey tower comprises studios, one and two-bedroom apartments, a variety of three bedrooms and one distinct penthouse with a full rooftop. Canaletto also includes shared amenities such as a swimming pool, health club, media room and resident?s club lounge with a terrace on the 24th floor.
UNStudio’s design for the tower, which is located in the London borough of Islington, incorporates the remodeling of the facade, a streamlining of the building?s mass and a contrasting of scale and detail untypical of a residential tower. The facade for the Canaletto tower was designed to emphasise its residential character and to define a distinct ?Islington? response.

Ben van Berkel: ?The City Road Tower distinguishes itself from buildings in the nearby financial district of the City through variation; through materials, through clusters, through a scale that is appropriate ...