30 Crown Place is located adjacent to the Broadgate development in Hackney’s ‘City Fringe’ at the southern tip of the Borough. This 25,000 sq m, 16 storey speculative office building, completed in 2009, became the HQ for the international law firm Pincent Masons. The client brief of 10,000sqm was twice what the planning brief suggested. Careful townscape analysis and building form design development delivered a much larger building than was envisaged at the outset. This building, now completed, together with 10 Crown Place and associated public realm improvements (designed by Stephen Cherry and David Franklin whilst at MJP architects), has proved a catalyst for further investment in this area which is now seeing a number of significant projects come forward.

Justin George provided Owners Representative services on this landmark project in the UK.