Oxford street should have a dozen all-night clubs on it, bit this is nonsense.
Then people would want to live in the new fun area. Then they’d try to shut it down.
Nobody can afford to go out and there’s a housing crisis, so let’s take all of this usable space that could increasing housing stock and use it for pretentious nightclubs!
HR…why is there a used condom and an empty bottle of hennessy in my desk draw?
To be honest I’d quite like getting tore up in those swanky buildings in the City.
I’d love to feel like a Bond villain for a day.
so why are they building more skyscrapers? for the mega wealthy to own but never live in?
Everyone has a great idea until they realise the effort required to get it to work.
Wouldn’t it just be easier to have dedicated places for drinking and partying…oh wait
Used to work at the White Collar Factory by Old Street and our Christmas Party was partly held in the building loading bay. Multiple bars, DJ in the middle of a big dancefloor and it worked really well.
Absolutely love that idea
Upon reading the article it suggests if the nightclub is on the top floor of a skyscraper a bit like Sushisamba in the Heron Tower, and most of them are concentrated in many non-residential areas like the City of London then it would be a nightlife district and offers something different that gets people going out again at night, and won’t face backlash against NIMBYs.
Problem is, I’m not so sure there’s even the demand for it at this point in time. This decline in nightlife in London seems to be in free fall atm and reversing the trend might take a while.
Kings College Uni had a club several floors up and was a great view while having a beer and a groove, right on the river.
FFS, just give us affordable housing! 😭
Yeah just what we need, more pissheads, cokeheads, antisocial behaviour and fights for the police and emergency services to have to deal with.
*…and get a party hat from the party drawer,* ***cos it’s PARTY TIME!!***
It would be nice if companies in the city could get approval to open over the weekends and on weekend nights.
Walk through the square mile and almost everything is closed on the weekend. Sometimes this is due to a massive drop in footfall, I can understand why all 900 prets wouldn’t open. But then you have gyms that actually aren’t allowed to open over the weekend due to licensing and that Australian restaurant just off bishopsgate – something green.
It just seems very bizarre. Especially when it seems that the whole of Essex descends on the areas around Liverpool street every Saturday.
I went to something similar to this in Amsterdam years ago and it was fucking great
Some nimbys will complain about this and shut it down eventually
The partiers can use up all the ❄️ that the bankers don’t finish
“Yeah someone pissed all over the deck redline. Could you rerun and print for me asap?
Best
MD”
So basically like many other cities that have rooftop bars/restaurants in office buildings…great, love sushisamba and duck and waffle in the Salesforce tower. We should do many more of these.
To be honest, the City is where most of the 30somethings with disposable income work anyway – would be easy to get them to stay a bit longer if there were more options
I’ve always thought that central London could do with more late 20somethings to early 40somethings options outside of restaurants that shut at 11p, pubs that shut at 11:30p and the handful of all bar ones that stay open late
Let’s play this through.
They’ll become clubs, the area will become lively, fun and new, nightlife brings other shops…….
Then flats appear, sold to the loaded and foreign investors, councils pander to the tourist economy, Chains move it and it all becomes a soulles wasteland.
But, I for one would be happy that life is brought back to these zones.
Back to the olds days of Fuego’s in the City.
Only that last sentence is /s
Haha yeah like fuck
I guess all the coke dealers wouldn’t have to travel very far now…
Or…. And this may sound wild. Use empty spaces to get people off the streets.
I’ve always said the rooftops of those office buildings are basically under utilised
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Liability insurance has entered the chat.
This is a great idea but we’d need some serious get outs for all the legal issues it would involve.
What unused office space? whoever wrote this never bothered to check if there was actually a surplus.
[https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-kingdom/news/2025/05/grade-a-london-office-space-facing-considerable-squeeze-beyond-2025](https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-kingdom/news/2025/05/grade-a-london-office-space-facing-considerable-squeeze-beyond-2025)
Oxford street should have a dozen all-night clubs on it, bit this is nonsense.
Then people would want to live in the new fun area. Then they’d try to shut it down.
Nobody can afford to go out and there’s a housing crisis, so let’s take all of this usable space that could increasing housing stock and use it for pretentious nightclubs!
HR…why is there a used condom and an empty bottle of hennessy in my desk draw?
To be honest I’d quite like getting tore up in those swanky buildings in the City.
I’d love to feel like a Bond villain for a day.
so why are they building more skyscrapers? for the mega wealthy to own but never live in?
Everyone has a great idea until they realise the effort required to get it to work.
Noise, pollution, litter, insurance, damage, theft…
Wouldn’t it just be easier to have dedicated places for drinking and partying…oh wait
Used to work at the White Collar Factory by Old Street and our Christmas Party was partly held in the building loading bay. Multiple bars, DJ in the middle of a big dancefloor and it worked really well.
Absolutely love that idea
Upon reading the article it suggests if the nightclub is on the top floor of a skyscraper a bit like Sushisamba in the Heron Tower, and most of them are concentrated in many non-residential areas like the City of London then it would be a nightlife district and offers something different that gets people going out again at night, and won’t face backlash against NIMBYs.
Problem is, I’m not so sure there’s even the demand for it at this point in time. This decline in nightlife in London seems to be in free fall atm and reversing the trend might take a while.
Kings College Uni had a club several floors up and was a great view while having a beer and a groove, right on the river.
FFS, just give us affordable housing! 😭
Yeah just what we need, more pissheads, cokeheads, antisocial behaviour and fights for the police and emergency services to have to deal with.
“Could”.
Won’t.
https://i.redd.it/0myfpumlhndf1.gif
*…and get a party hat from the party drawer,* ***cos it’s PARTY TIME!!***
It would be nice if companies in the city could get approval to open over the weekends and on weekend nights.
Walk through the square mile and almost everything is closed on the weekend. Sometimes this is due to a massive drop in footfall, I can understand why all 900 prets wouldn’t open. But then you have gyms that actually aren’t allowed to open over the weekend due to licensing and that Australian restaurant just off bishopsgate – something green.
It just seems very bizarre. Especially when it seems that the whole of Essex descends on the areas around Liverpool street every Saturday.
I went to something similar to this in Amsterdam years ago and it was fucking great
Some nimbys will complain about this and shut it down eventually
The partiers can use up all the ❄️ that the bankers don’t finish
“Yeah someone pissed all over the deck redline. Could you rerun and print for me asap?
Best
MD”
So basically like many other cities that have rooftop bars/restaurants in office buildings…great, love sushisamba and duck and waffle in the Salesforce tower. We should do many more of these.
To be honest, the City is where most of the 30somethings with disposable income work anyway – would be easy to get them to stay a bit longer if there were more options
I’ve always thought that central London could do with more late 20somethings to early 40somethings options outside of restaurants that shut at 11p, pubs that shut at 11:30p and the handful of all bar ones that stay open late
Let’s play this through.
They’ll become clubs, the area will become lively, fun and new, nightlife brings other shops…….
Then flats appear, sold to the loaded and foreign investors, councils pander to the tourist economy, Chains move it and it all becomes a soulles wasteland.
But, I for one would be happy that life is brought back to these zones.
Back to the olds days of Fuego’s in the City.
Only that last sentence is /s
Haha yeah like fuck
I guess all the coke dealers wouldn’t have to travel very far now…
Or…. And this may sound wild. Use empty spaces to get people off the streets.
I’ve always said the rooftops of those office buildings are basically under utilised
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