Their window cleaners are scared of heights so they are bringing the windows down to clean
The glass testicle noooo!
Its not City Hall anymore. Actual City Hall is very shit.
It’s being refurbished for an office building/cultural venue with shops. They’re stripping the staircase inside and opening a bit of the building at the front, and fixing its posture so it isn’t leaning. They also plan to have plants lining the terraces in the facade.
On another note, never understood why the Mayor chose to move City Hall to Newham. The new building is so generic, ugly & it’s well out of the way for anyone who doesn’t live in East London. The area around, while nice by the dock, has infrastructure that is very heavily car dominated, seemingly exactly the polar opposite to the Mayor’s visions of London. The area also has poor bus connections, to get to Greenwich one time I had to walk for over 20 minutes across a very loud overpass to get to a bus stop which would take me under the new Silvertown tunnel there.
The new building is also really heavily locked down, security on doors with security scanners & stepping into the chamber where the mayor speaks is like walking into prison viewing booths.
It was a horrible empty building to begin with. Much like Johnson who whiff whiffed about the place.
It’s shedding its summer coat
They’re going to turn it into a tiny shit version of the Vegas sphere.
It was a bit too straight so they’re slanting it over to one side a bit more.
Looks like annual crane fighting championships
Tbf however much you can make a case for it being a unique building it’s in the wrong place…. That site next to Tower Bridge should always have been a public realm space and facilities for the public leisure, restaurants, art, exhibitions, shops and the like….. Finally it’s being adapted.
The council finally approved the double glazing installation
The cranes are eating their fill to last them the oncoming hibernation period
The Old City Hall will be quite operational when you’re friends arrive
Not paid the rent, so they are taking the windows back.
They are turning it into a new gregs
It’s gonna be a Costa.
I always thought that was a fascinating building. It’s not a part of London I go to much, but I did once spend a day in there when they were filming one of the Transformers movies (can’t remember which one) & they used the main central atrium to be some kind of science consortium. Fabulous indoor space.
Someone’s just done a _really_ really good job of cleaning the windows!
It’s a real shame. A city with a Mayor should have a proper City Hall. Paris has the Hotel de Ville right in the heart of the city. New York’s City Hall is in Lower Manhattan. Manchester Town Hall is amazing and, again, right in the middle of the city. London’s Mayor is tucked away out in Docklands and I would guess that the overwhelming majority of Londoners have no idea where.
Looks like theyve taken some of the windows out
It’s being opened up to take advantage of the beautiful weather today. Like being on a roof terrace in Barcelona.
Kind of.
London air quality now safe because of ULEZ so we can go full-open plan now :thumbs-up:
Oh wow, when did work start on this, it looked like nothing was happening when I was last there.
It’s hatching 🐣
They had to take the side off to get bojos ego out ?
Looks like the front fell off
The Kuwati Royal family, the house of Sabah, decided to move the government of London out of its purpose built building, and to seek greater profits through converting the building into commercial units. Because our city is run by landlords and landowners.
The whale is rising up from the depths ready to eat a mouthful of plankton!
It’s brushing its teeth
Cleaning the windows? Easier on a bench.
Construction mate, it’s not hard to understand
They’re trying to get Sadiq Khan out
The top floor used to be called London’s Living Room and if it wasn’t booked for an event it was free to go in and onto the balcony.
I knew from friends it was falling apart before the GLA left. I went to an event there and the pipe to a urinal was faulty so the piss just collected in a bucket placed underneath.
The front fell off.
They have to let all the hot air out somehow.
Honestly not a great idea to modify a building to have a series of terraces and balconies in what used to be internal floor slab. My colleagues are working on this building and those parts are nothing short of a disaster design-wise. Normally when you create a balcony or terrace you have a folded slab or stepped slab. Can’t do that here.
>In 2020 it was reported that City Hall was costing the GLA £11m a year
£11m per year? JUST BLOODY HOW???
Another property transitioning to an HMO
i prefer this look. great work from Foster and Arup. the new one is sth greeny and generic…
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Their window cleaners are scared of heights so they are bringing the windows down to clean
The glass testicle noooo!
Its not City Hall anymore. Actual City Hall is very shit.
It’s being refurbished for an office building/cultural venue with shops. They’re stripping the staircase inside and opening a bit of the building at the front, and fixing its posture so it isn’t leaning. They also plan to have plants lining the terraces in the facade.
On another note, never understood why the Mayor chose to move City Hall to Newham. The new building is so generic, ugly & it’s well out of the way for anyone who doesn’t live in East London. The area around, while nice by the dock, has infrastructure that is very heavily car dominated, seemingly exactly the polar opposite to the Mayor’s visions of London. The area also has poor bus connections, to get to Greenwich one time I had to walk for over 20 minutes across a very loud overpass to get to a bus stop which would take me under the new Silvertown tunnel there.
The new building is also really heavily locked down, security on doors with security scanners & stepping into the chamber where the mayor speaks is like walking into prison viewing booths.
This explains the plans, including removing the current glass shell – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3nlykeryo
It’s time for its annual shedding of scales before the thick ones grow in for the winter.
that ain’t been City Hall for 4 years now.
it’s being refurbished into mixed use ground floor shops & restaurants and offices above.
spoilers for what it will look like – [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3nlykeryo](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr3nlykeryo)
It was a horrible empty building to begin with. Much like Johnson who whiff whiffed about the place.
It’s shedding its summer coat
They’re going to turn it into a tiny shit version of the Vegas sphere.
It was a bit too straight so they’re slanting it over to one side a bit more.
Looks like annual crane fighting championships
Tbf however much you can make a case for it being a unique building it’s in the wrong place…. That site next to Tower Bridge should always have been a public realm space and facilities for the public leisure, restaurants, art, exhibitions, shops and the like….. Finally it’s being adapted.
The council finally approved the double glazing installation
The cranes are eating their fill to last them the oncoming hibernation period
The Old City Hall will be quite operational when you’re friends arrive
Not paid the rent, so they are taking the windows back.
They are turning it into a new gregs
It’s gonna be a Costa.
I always thought that was a fascinating building. It’s not a part of London I go to much, but I did once spend a day in there when they were filming one of the Transformers movies (can’t remember which one) & they used the main central atrium to be some kind of science consortium. Fabulous indoor space.
Ah, found it – Transformers: The Last Knight
https://preview.redd.it/wa1oadj5uwsf1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f1f96939c8477458a20905c9fb36dacd83abbe3
London changes fast.
They’re renovating it
Psyching up to destroy Alderaan
cleaning the windows
The front fell off
They’re working to get your mum out.
Someone’s just done a _really_ really good job of cleaning the windows!
It’s a real shame. A city with a Mayor should have a proper City Hall. Paris has the Hotel de Ville right in the heart of the city. New York’s City Hall is in Lower Manhattan. Manchester Town Hall is amazing and, again, right in the middle of the city. London’s Mayor is tucked away out in Docklands and I would guess that the overwhelming majority of Londoners have no idea where.
Looks like theyve taken some of the windows out
It’s being opened up to take advantage of the beautiful weather today. Like being on a roof terrace in Barcelona.
Kind of.
London air quality now safe because of ULEZ so we can go full-open plan now :thumbs-up:
Oh wow, when did work start on this, it looked like nothing was happening when I was last there.
It’s hatching 🐣
They had to take the side off to get bojos ego out ?
Looks like the front fell off
The Kuwati Royal family, the house of Sabah, decided to move the government of London out of its purpose built building, and to seek greater profits through converting the building into commercial units. Because our city is run by landlords and landowners.
The whale is rising up from the depths ready to eat a mouthful of plankton!
It’s brushing its teeth
Cleaning the windows? Easier on a bench.
Construction mate, it’s not hard to understand
They’re trying to get Sadiq Khan out
The top floor used to be called London’s Living Room and if it wasn’t booked for an event it was free to go in and onto the balcony.
I knew from friends it was falling apart before the GLA left. I went to an event there and the pipe to a urinal was faulty so the piss just collected in a bucket placed underneath.
The front fell off.
They have to let all the hot air out somehow.
Honestly not a great idea to modify a building to have a series of terraces and balconies in what used to be internal floor slab. My colleagues are working on this building and those parts are nothing short of a disaster design-wise. Normally when you create a balcony or terrace you have a folded slab or stepped slab. Can’t do that here.
>In 2020 it was reported that City Hall was costing the GLA £11m a year
£11m per year? JUST BLOODY HOW???
Another property transitioning to an HMO
i prefer this look. great work from Foster and Arup. the new one is sth greeny and generic…
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