![]() It welcomed culture secretary Nadine Dorries’ decision not to grant building owners St Martins Property Group the COI it sought earlier this year for the structure, which was described by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone as a “glass testicle”. ![]() However it was unsuccessful in getting listed status for the building last year. ![]() The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has declined a request for a “certificate of immunity from listing” – or COI – made on behalf the building’s owners, which could have offered a window for radical redevelopment of the structure, or even demolition.Ĭurrent London Mayor Sadiq Khan relocated the Greater London Authority and London Assembly to Wilkinson Eyre’s The Crystal building earlier this year as part of a bid to save the capital £61m in rent over the next five years.Ĭampaign group the Twentieth Century Society placed Fosters’ City Hall on its buildings at risk list when the prospect of Khan and the GLA relocating operations became a firm prospect.
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