{"id":20683,"date":"2015-11-04T15:10:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=20683"},"modified":"2015-11-04T15:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:10:12","slug":"steel-shard-will-give-paddington-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/steel-shard-will-give-paddington-a-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Steel Shard will give Paddington a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tube151105.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20678\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tube151105.jpg\" alt=\"tube151105\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tube151105.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tube151105-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Architect Renzo Piano and developer Sellar Property Group have unveiled plans for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Braced_frames\" target=\"_blank\">steel-framed<\/a> 65-storey, \u00a31bn mixed-use scheme for Paddington, west London.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme at 31 London Street has already been dubbed the \u2018skinny Shard\u2019, as the team previously worked on the capital\u2019s tallest building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/The_Shard,_London\" target=\"_blank\">the Shard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of Sellar Property Group Irvine Sellar, said: \u201cPaddington is a fantastic location but it is stuck in a Fifties time-warp. We intend to create a place for people to go, where they will want to live, work, eat and shop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At 224m tall, the scheme will be London\u2019s fourth tallest building and will contain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Residential_and_mixed-use_buildings#Mixed-use_residential_buildings\" target=\"_blank\">apartments<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelconstruction.info\/Multi-storey_office_buildings\" target=\"_blank\">offices<\/a>, restaurants and a roof garden.<\/p>\n<p>The development is yet to get planning permission but according to Sellar the development will create more than 200 new homes, and hundreds of jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It will stand in a one acre former Royal Mail sorting office site between Paddington station and St Mary\u2019s hospital bought for \u00a3111M last October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architect Renzo Piano and developer Sellar Property Group have unveiled plans for a steel-framed 65-storey, \u00a31bn mixed-use scheme for Paddington, west London. The scheme at 31 London Street has already been dubbed the \u2018skinny Shard\u2019, as the team previously worked on the capital\u2019s tallest building the Shard. Chairman of Sellar Property Group Irvine Sellar, said: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tube151105.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-5nB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20684,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20683\/revisions\/20684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}