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The Island (also known as Newgate Tower, [2] and previously ISLAND [3] and IYLO) is a residential skyscraper in the London Borough of Croydon, London.In 2018, the building's 17th-floor penthouse apartment was described as the "most expensive flat in Croydon".
Croydon's skyline has been built up mostly since the mid-20th century. No. 1 Croydon held the title of tallest structure in Croydon for 38 years until Altitude 25 is built. This was replaced in 2016 by Saffron Square, a 2016 Carbuncle Cup-nominated high-rise completed as part of Croydon Vision 2020. Other high-rise buildings proposed to be ...
Upon completion, Saffron Square was the tallest residential tower in Croydon, with 414 private apartments and penthouses, overtaken in 2019 by 101 George Street. [ 6 ] Saffron Tower was nominated for the 2016 Carbuncle Cup for the ugliest building of the previous 12 months, [ 7 ] but the award went to Lincoln Plaza in Docklands.
The Ballymun Flats were the first homes with cable television in Ireland. RTÉ Relays Ltd, a subsidiary of the national broadcaster RTÉ, installed cable television into the flats in 1963, giving each residence access to Irish stations such as RTÉ Television and UK stations such as BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, and from 1982, Channel 4.
Plans have been made to redevelop the Little London and Lovell Park areas on the fringes of Leeds city centre into luxury flats for 'young urban professionals'. The plans entail demolishing all of the council housing and refurbishing the high-rise flats. This demand has led to many councils rethinking plans regarding their demolition.
The island of Ireland has relatively few tall buildings. The island's first tall building was Liberty Hall , built in 1965, which stands at 59.4 metres (195 ft). The current tallest habitable building on the island of Ireland is the Obel Tower in Belfast , Northern Ireland at 85 metres (279 ft).
View towards Central Croydon from Pitlake Bridge. The London Borough of Croydon has a wide variety of buildings mainly from post-war through to modern. Much of the modern architecture in the borough is centred on the commercial centre of the town, with much of the Victorian designs spread out on both the northern and southern corridors of the borough.
Thamesmead (/ ˈ t ɛ m z m iː d /) is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley.It is located 11 miles (18 km) east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith.