New Project Team Appointed for 24-Story Camden Tower

Cartwright Pickard has replaced Grid Architects on long-delayed plans to build a 24-story block of flats in Camden in London, U.K., Building reports. The 100 Avenue Road site was purchased by residential developer Regal earlier this year. The project was originally approved nine years ago but was subsequently beset by an array of planning and construction delays. Turkington Martin is now the landscape architect, Caneparo Associates is transportation consultant and planning consultant has been handed to Montagu Evans. Robert Bird has been appointed as structural engineer, and Whitecode has been named as the project’s energy and mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer. Building changes include increasing the number of homes from 184 to 236, reducing ceiling heights from 3.25 m to 3 m, adding an additional story to a proposed lower-rise block on the site, altering internal layouts and adding a second staircase into the tower to comply with new fire safety requirements.