Row hits Studio Egret West tower

摘要

A leading high-rise housing developer has commissioned Studio Egret West to work up plans for a 31-storey tower in the London suburbs, sparking a row over its 'entirely inappropriate' height. Berkeley Group, one of the principal sponsors of the London Festival of Architecture 2014, is behind the £1 billion Kidbrooke Village scheme in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, a scheme which replaces the now demolished Ferrier Estate. The 4,000-unit masterplan for the development by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands was originally given consent five years ago, but Berkeley is now proposing to add more than 1,000 extra homes, including those in Studio Egret West's planned 31-storey residential tower.