Reconfiguration of the traffic
circulation with an option for two-way traffic in Great Eastern Street and
pedestrianisation of Tabernacle Square improves vehicular flow and
pedestrian access to and from the Apex site. An arcade on the narrow
Rivington Street frontage provides a broad covered pavement from which the
hotel lobby offers a covered route through the site passed the courtyard
to the Old Street frontage. All four main functions, the hotel, the
offices, the apartments and the restaurant are directly accessible from
the main pedestrian frontages and from the courtyard. The curb is inset on
the western tip to provide a taxi setting-down point close to the open
courtyard entrance and there is a coach bay on the Old Street frontage
near to the hotel entrance lobby and to the restaurant. A lift and
stairwell core in the office main entrance serves the office floors of the
south wing. A lift and stairwell core in the residential reception serves
the residential floors of the tower. Two lift and stairwell cores in the
link-block serve the hotel floors where the lift landings half way between
the far ends of the hotel wings, are convenient for access to the rooms. |
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