Aitch Group Plan Metallic London Hotel Tower

Another planning application has been filed for 82 West India Road in London, presumably to replace the currently approved design that's a 20 storey apartment block.

Close to Canary Wharf with Westferry DLR to its south and west, it is once again developed by the Aitch Group, and if built will stand as a part fourteen part sixteen floor tower that breaks the block down from a single monolithic slab and enlivens the elevations. It will top out at 57 metres in height.

The scheme this time is intended to be a middle of the road hotel with 252 rooms, plus conference facilities and a restaurant. A pedestrian route cuts through the site and separates the main hotel tower from a much lower-rise block that has a café at its base.

The tower will be notably clad in copper on the fourteen storey section whilst the more prominent sixteen storey part will be clad in bronze. The end result should be a shimmeringly metallic building as seen most recently at the Novotel in Paddington rather than the metallic rust of Broadcasting Place.

Full height double aspect windows run up the edges of the tower along with the glazed escape staircase on one corner that give a sense of visual separation between the tower element's difference faces.

The scheme has been designed by Studio BG who have made a reputation for themselves working on hotels with projects ranging from Brussels to Dubai, and most famously and perhaps atypically Legoland in Windsor.