London's old offices made over into lux apartments, swanky hotels
Squeezed for space in prime real estate, developers are transforming corporate boardrooms, department stores and offices.
Source: afr.com
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Squeezed for space in prime real estate, developers are transforming corporate boardrooms, department stores and offices.
Minutes from Parliament at Westminster, 9 Millbank used to be the headquarters of Imperial Chemical Industries, formerly the largest manufacturer in Britain, which once made products such as the acrylic plastic Perspex. Now brokers are ushering high-net-worth clients, titans of industries and finance executives through the building to see apartments like one called the Gainsborough—listed for £18…