en.Wedoany.com Reported - UK architectural design firm AHMM has submitted a planning application to build a 20-storey student accommodation block on the former site of the London Metropolitan University's architecture school. Trilogy Real Estate is the development manager for the project, located on a 0.5-hectare plot.

The site is currently occupied by a dense cluster of buildings, including spaces formerly used by The Cass (the former Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design). Some departments of the faculty relocated elsewhere on campus for the 2025/26 academic year, with the architecture school remaining in Aldgate. The plan involves demolishing the southern half of the existing buildings to construct new student accommodation with 800 beds, featuring shared study spaces, management offices, and a ground-floor retail space of 220 square metres.

The design will retain and incorporate the curved modernist facade of the 1920s Oceanair Building into the new accommodation block. The tower's brick facade is divided into base, middle, and top sections to harmonise with the surrounding early 20th-century architectural styles. The Calcutta House (formerly the Brooke Bond tea warehouse) on the site, built between the 1910s and 1960s with a steel frame and brick structure, will be retained and extended for higher education use. AHMM describes it as dated but possessing locally characteristic details.

The project team includes Quartz (project management and quantity surveying), AKT (structures), Savills (planning), Atelier Ten (M&E), Velocity (transport), Montagu Evans (townscape), FMDC (facade), RWDI (wind engineering), and Planit (landscape architecture).

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