Colliers Wood Tower
The Colliers Wood Tower , also just called "The Tower", is a high-rise in the London borough of Colliers Wood in the Merton district . The building is located at the junction A24 / A238 (High Street Colliers Wood / Merton High Street), directly opposite the station Colliers Wood of the London Underground . There is a round parking garage at the back.
The skyscraper was built in the 1960s in the style of the Chicago school . It has 17 floors and a plant room on the roof. The office space is 7576 m². During its construction, a construction error forced the building, which had already been completed up to the third floor, to be demolished and rebuilt again.
The building was originally called "Lyon Tower" after Ronald Lyon Holdings , a real estate company that had its headquarters here. It was later named "The Vortex" and "Brown & Root Tower" after the American engineering and construction company Brown & Root Halliburton , the forerunner of KBR, Inc. and then a subsidiary of Halliburton , which rented the building from 1971 to 1995. The current owner is Golfrate Property Management from London, whose announcement that the vacant skyscraper will be renovated has not yet been implemented. Windows and doors on the ground floor and first floor are barricaded with plywood, the building is covered with green nets to catch any falling concrete. The demolition of the parking garage began in April 2010, but was discontinued shortly afterwards, so that about half of it was still there. The car park has been completely removed since summer 2011.
In a 2005 poll conducted by the British television broadcaster Channel 4's Demolition series , the Colliers Wood Tower was voted one of the twelve ugliest buildings in the UK. A vote by the BBC for Architecture Week 2006 declared the tower to be the “most hated building” in London.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Colliers Wood Residents' Association with current images
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 0 ° 10 ′ 42.4 ″ W.