East London Chic
02/03/2026
For Sale! Take a video tour of this stylish and spacious one-bed with views overlooking Bethnal Green’s wonderfully serene Museum Gardens…
For Sale! Take a video tour of this stylish and spacious one-bed with views overlooking Bethnal Green’s wonderfully serene Museum Gardens…
While the Shard steals most of the attention, three of the City’s daftly nicknamed skyscrapers are reaching noteworthy heights and a fourth is at planning…
The Walkie Talkie
Nicknamed the Walkie-Talkie because of its bulbous top. Due to be completed in the summer of 2014. The building will be 160 m (525 ft) tall, with 36 storeys.
The Walkie Talkie
The Helter Skelter
The Helter Skelter is suffering from funding problems and is expected to be finished by 2013/2014. On completion it will become the tallest building in the City of London and the second-tallest in both the United Kingdom and the European Union
Helter Skelter
The Cheese Grater
With its distinctive wedge-shaped profile the Cheesegrater will be 225 m (737 ft) tall, with 48 floors, when it is completed in 2014.
The Cheese Grater
The Scalpel
The Scalpel is proposed for construction, if it gets the go head it will complete in 2017. The building will be 190 m (623 ft) tall, with 35 storeys.
The Scalpel (ThisIsLondon)
The New York Times has featured Findlay Property’s favourite Hackney restaurant in the Travel Section in a piece called The Hidden Gems of Europe. Click here to go to the story.
A new report has been published on the predicted effect Crossrail will have on London property prices. The headline is that “Residential capital values are projected to increase immediately around Crossrail stations in central London by 25 per cent, and by 20 per cent in the suburbs, again above a rising baseline projection. In many locations, Crossrail will have a transformative effect on the property market and development activity over time.”
Crossrail is among the most significant infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the UK. From improving journey times across London, to easing congestion and offering better connections, Crossrail will change the way people travel around the capital. Crossrail’s new stations will revitalise the concept of the station being the centre of the community it serves.
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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park will be a new area of east London for communities to grow and develop. There will be five new neighbourhoods built on the Park and up to 8,000 new homes; Chobham Manor will be the first neighbourhood to be developed, located between the Lee Valley VeloPark and the Athletes’ Village in the north-east of the Park. It will be centred around 800 new homes and 3,000 sq m of community and ancillary facilities, including a polyclinic, two nurseries and a community centre.
The four other neighbourhoods are: East Wick which will be in the north-west of the Park, next to Hackney Wick; Sweetwater near the Old Ford area, in the south-west of the Park; Marshgate Wharf will be between Stratford City and the Stadium, to the south-east of the Stadium; and Pudding Mill will be the area in and around Pudding Mill Lane station.
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The London Evening Standard reports that the announcement in America that interest rates are expected to be held at their current level until 2015 is reassuring for mortgage borrowers in the UK. If the US keeps rates low, the Bank of England will have to follow. Read more here.
The venerated National Geographic has a feature on East London in this months issue. This caption appeared beneath a photo of some trendies on Broadway Market “On Saturdays, East London’s newest arrivals—the young and affluent—linger in trendy cafés and trawl the stalls of Broadway Market. Formerly a locus of garden-variety fruit and veg stands, the market now offers eco-friendly bamboo socks, loin of venison, and hand-sliced smoked salmon.” Click image to go to gallery.
Trendies on Broadway Market
The good people at Tropolis have put together an excellent guide to east London during the Olympics. Written by someone in the know and well worth a browse, click the image below to go directly to their site…
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The Evening Standard reports that the majority of the capital’s population now lives east of Blackfriars Bridge. This remarkable demographic shift to just beyond the Square Mile’s ancient walls is largely due to new transport links — the Jubilee line and the East London line extensions among them — that have combined with riverbank regeneration to revitalise City fringe districts, now bursting with dot.commerce businesses and new cultural and leisure attractions.
Truman Brewery Brick Lane
The Econmist this week has a special report on London. This is London’s year. London has resisted Britain’s relative decline. Globalisation is distilled and concentrated in London, making it the world’s most international city. New York has as many foreign-born people as London—a bit more than a third—but its businesses look to America, whereas London’s look out to the world. Read more here or watch the video.
Fascinating stuff.
