Willmott Dixon's £14m hotel job

摘要

Willmott Dixon has been appointed to convert a central London office block into a luxury hotel for operator Dorsett Hospitality International. The project will see the existing Matrix Building, in Aldgate High Street, dismantled to the ground and a new 13-storey building constructed on its existing foundations. The construction firm said it expected to start work on the £14m Dorsett City project next month. It will be the second of the global chain's hotels in the capital. Roger Forsdyke, managing director at Willmott Dixon's Cobham office, said the hotel - set for a site between an 18th-century church and Aldgate tube station - was a "really interesting" scheme. "It plays to our strengths and know-how of working on tight, constrained sites in urban locations, as well as our record for working in historic parts of London on landmark buildings," he said. The building was designed by McBains Cooper and won planning permission in 2013.