Sheppard Robson takes over at 'NoHo Square'
Noho Square, former site of Middlesex Hospital
Make’s designs to be replaced at central London’s former Middlesex Hospital site
Sheppard Robson is to draw up one of central London’s largest schemes after Iceland’s failed Kaupthing Bank agreed to revisit plans to develop the site of the former Middlesex Hospital.
The site in Fitzrovia was was once part-owned by developers the Candy Brothers, who appointed Make and aped a similar development in New York City by dubbing it “NoHo Square”.
It stalled after Make’s 60,000sq m scheme failed to win planning and Kaupthing entered administration.
Nick and Christian Candy later swapped their 33% stake for a stake in a Beverly Hills development also owned by the Icelandic bank.
Following the signing of a joint venture agreement last week by Kaupthing, Aviva Investors and Exemplar Properties, the latter confirmed that Sheppard Robson would design a smaller development of 250 upmarket flats, 80 affordable housing units, shops, a school and a medical centre.
They have also abandoned the much-maligned NoHo name.
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Readers' comments (3)
Dumping Make for Sheppard Robinson. Wow! It is good to cater for the creative Holywood set in Fitzroivia. Nightmare on Fitzroy Street (Shepphard Robinson's delightful green alien monsters oozing out of Arup's building) will be followed by an even bigger Nightmare on Mortimer Street!
Time for my firm to start designing scary evil blobs too.
As a representative of those who graduated from The Middlesex Hospital and its Medical School may I make a plea that its name is remembered somewhere in the title? It served the local community for 250 years before being swallowed up by UCL and its graduates have served a wider community and its name should be 'carved in stone' and remembered.
As another graduate of The Middlesex Hospital Medical School and as a physician who had the priviledge of working and doing postgraduate training there I would like to endorse Peter Sonksen's comments, It was a tragedy that the Hospital and particularly its facade was destroyed Please let us retain its name!