A mixed-use development is proposed
incorporating a 224-bed hotel (8162 sqm), 4 floors of office use (3842 sqm),
a restaurant (805 sqm) that could be part of the hotel, a residential
tower with 28 apartments (3722 sqm) and a commercial sub-basement car park
with 51 No. car spaces. The Apex Hotel occupies nine levels of the north
wing (B, G, 1-7), the link-block (G, 1-7) and the top three floors of the
south wing (5, 6 and 7). The ground floor lobby has entrances from Old
Street, Rivington Street and from the courtyard. The Apex Offices occupy
the lower levels of the south wing (B, G, 1, 2 and 3) with a main entrance
and reception in the curved prow accessible from the covered arcade. The
offices have prime frontages on Rivington Street, Great Eastern Street and
the courtyard. The offices are arranged to be separately lettable floor by
floor. The restaurant occupies the central ground and basement areas of
the north wing, adjacent to the hotel lobby, and with a south-western
aspect overlooking the courtyard, where tables and chairs can be set out
in the afternoon sun, screened from the traffic of Old Street and Great
Eastern Street. The residential accommodation occupies the upper levels of
the Apex Tower (8 – 26) with a prominent ground floor entrance and
reception in the curved prow of the north wing. The tower, at No. 90 Great
Eastern Street, provides a high quality residential environment rising
above the urban surroundings. There are two apartments per floor on the
lower levels (8-19), one per floor on the upper levels (20-22) and a
penthouse triplex at the summit ( 23, 24 and 25), all with broad urban
aspects and clear views over the City. The Apex Tower will be designed to
have a characteristic profile, recognizable on the London skyline as the
landmark of the Shoreditch Triangle and metropolitan gateway to the London
Borough of Hackney. All ground floor areas of the development have a
storey height of not less than 3.6m. Elsewhere the storey heights in the
north wing, the tower, the link-block and the top three floors of the
south wing are 2.7m. Storey heights in the south wing offices are 3.6m so
that floors 1-4 of the north wing correspond with floors 1-3 of the south
wing, both having a total height of 10.8m. As the top three floors of the
south wing are part of the hotel they have been identified as floors 5, 6
and 7, so that the south wing does not have a fourth floor. A commercial
car park occupies the sub-basement with negotiated rates for the
residents, the offices and the hotel.
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