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3 days ago

Orms Appointed to Lead Redevelopment of London's BT Tower into Hotel

BT Tower in London will be converted into a hotel by MCR Hotels with Orms architecture firm leading the redevelopment, with construction delayed until telecommunications equipment removal completes around 2030.
fromTime Out London
6 days ago

London's iconic BT Tower will be turned into a hotel by the all-star architecture firm behind Outernet

American hotel chain MCR bought the spindly Fitzrovia superstar from BT Group for a cool £275 million. This was incredibly exciting news, as the former centre of the 'white heat of technology' (as then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson dubbed the communications centre upon its opening in 1964) had reduced public access after anarchist collective the Angry Brigade set off a bomb there in 1971.
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