Foster + Partners completes luxury Principal Tower in London
Architect Foster + Partners has completed its first residential skyscraper in London, which contains 299 luxury apartments.
Named Principal Tower, the 50-storey building marks the completion of Principal Place, which is a mixed-use development positioned between Shoreditch and the capital's financial district. As part of the development Foster + Partners also designed a 15-storey office for Amazon UK.
The tower was commissioned by Concord London and Brookfield Properties to help boost the scheme's "residential appeal" alongside the development's  commercial offerings, bars and eateries.
Photo is by Concord London
"Principal Tower is an integral part of a composition of buildings that includes the new Amazon headquarters, the adjacent low-rise residential buildings and the refurbished and restored Light Bar," explained Grant Brooker, director at Foster + Partners. "It was designed specifically for this location ? the character of the buildings and the form is specific to the place it occupies, and it would certainly not be built like this anywhere else in the city," he told Dezeen.
Photo is by Nigel Young/Foster+Partners.
Principal Tower takes the form of three different-sized volumes arranged in a cruciform that measures less than 25 metres each side.
This compact footprint was dictated by the site's physical constraints. It is bordered by existing buildings and the railway lines of the adjacent Liverpool Street train station.
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