Welcome to our Community Website to display an overview of our early proposals for the 150 Minories site.
We look forward to receiving your feedback and sharing further details throughout the process.
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150 Minories sits just off Aldgate High Street – a 2 minute walk to Aldgate Station. The building was built in the 1950’s as two separate building, and combined in the 1970’s. It is currently used for office accommodation – but it is of a poor quality and has not been updated to modern standards.
Issues include:
Site Location & Access
150 Minories from Aldgate Bus Station
Poor condition to Vine Street
Internal Views of the Offices
Internal Views of the Offices
We believe that there is an opportunity for the building to be re imagined as new homes and make a positive contribution to the area and the local community. Our vision is to create a vibrant, sustainable place where residents and the public can thrive, fostering a flourishing community.
At ground floor we are creating a vibrant collection of new uses providing amenity for members of the public, the existing local community, and new residents:
Visual of the new Route to Vine Street
“I start my day with a leisurely walk through Aldgate, appreciating the area I have known since childhood. Often stopping in the pocket park to enjoy a coffee from the local café. I regularly visit the Health and Wellbeing Hub for wellness sessions, for physiotherapy and nutritional consultations at a discount rate. The Hub’s facilities help me stay fit and healthy, allowing me to participate in community events and social gatherings.”
– Trevor, 62, Retired
Our proposal for a new vibrant ground floor
Our research has highlighted a need for affordable gyms and spaces which promote wellbeing. The Health and Wellness Hub will provide access to workout studios to residents of the local neighbourhood at discounted rates to encourage improved wellbeing. In addition to this, we will provide consultation spaces which can be reserved by Physiotherapists and Nutritionists, at reduced rates to enable them to provide a low-cost service to the local community.
Example Gym Room
“I take full advantage of the Health and Wellness Hub, especially the gym and fitness studio, to stay active and healthy amidst my demanding schedule. The Hub allows me a place to work out when, I couldn’t afford a membership at a City gym. Additionally, I enjoy the communal atmosphere of the Hub, where I often meet other local residents.”
– Melissa, 21, Local Resident
Visual of the new Fitness Studio
Plan of the new Health and Wellness Hub
At the end of Vine Street we will provide a new publicly accessible pocket park with features such as seating areas, greenery, recreation equipment, table tennis tables, potability for food stalls and community art installations. The park will create a quiet haven within the city, providing a space of relaxation and recreation for the local community.
New Pocket Park on Vine Street
Visual of the New Pocket Park and route to Minories
“I frequently use the pocket park during my lunch breaks. The park provides a serene escape from the hectic office environment, where I can relax and rejuvenate before heading back to work. The pocket park’s offers a perfect spot for me to enjoy my lunch and catch up on reading or listen to podcasts.”
– John, 32, Nearby Office Worker
150 Minories will provide high quality homes for a new residential community – with a wide variety of amenities and facilities provided across the building. The communal spaces will be at the heart of our building. Warm and welcoming, they will be places to relax, socialise and work.
Visual of the Community Lounge
Level 10 Amenity Terrace
Ground Floor
Residents will enjoy generous homes with access to a wide range of communal amenities, including cooking and dining spaces, lounges, gym, cinema room and bookable rooms for meeting with friends. The designs have focused on encouraging health and wellbeing in the community.
“I love living at the 150 Minories building due to its modern facilities and the sense of community it offers. I start my mornings with a quick workout at the Health and Wellbeing Hub, using the fitness studio to keep fit. In the evenings, I often cook dinner in the communal kitchens, which helps me unwind with my neighbours after a busy day at work. The convenience of having these amenities right in my building enhances my urban living experience.”
– Alice, 25, Resident at 150 Minories
Communal Spaces
Generous Studios
Private Bookable Rooms
The building has been designed to sit sensitively into the context of Minories – with a series of stepping masses and datums tying into the adjacent building lines. A series of jewel like extensions in lightweight cladding will sit above the main masonry facade.
Concept Sketch
View from Aldgate
View along Minories
1: Retain Existing Building
2: Key stepping datums
3: Stepping stringer datums
4: Base, body and crown
5: Two-part Split
6: Window positions
The facade design uses two complementary building materials – traditional brickwork to the main body of the building with lightweight metalwork to the top floor extensions. At key areas such as the entrance to the Fitness and Wellbeing Hub we are using more detailed architectural expression to signpost the more public parts of the building. The colour and tone of the facade has been selected to sit into the existing palette of the surrounding context.
Material Palette
Minories Architectural Design
Roof Terrace Architectural Design
HUB is a residential developer with a 10-year track record in London and other key UK cities. We are committed to building relationships with local communities and engaging with the people who live and work near our projects. Our latest focus is on repurposing existing buildings to create sustainable living places. As a progressive developer, HUB create living places for communities to thrive, now and into the future. Across the UK, HUB aim to leave places better than they were found.
We deliver long-lasting value for all
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Bridges Fund Management was founded in 2002 driven by a shared belief that business and investment could play a vital role in tackling pressing social and environmental challenges. Bridges Fund Management is the largest social impact fund in the UK and HUB is delivering fourteen projects across the country with them.
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Our teams rich, cross sector experience informs every stage of theproject journey – connecting environmental sustainability with economic, social and cultural resilience.
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We’re committed to continuing to engage with residents throughout the planning process and beyond. Once we have considered the feedback from local residents, we will develop the design and when fully considered submit a planning application for the site. Our timeline to continue the conversation with the local community:
Welcome to our Community Website for 150 Minories in Aldgate. On this page you can see an overview of the existing building and our early proposals for repurposing the building into a Co-Living scheme.
We appreciate you visiting our consultation website and sharing your views on our developing plans.
We are committed to consultation with residents and the local community, and will continue through the development and beyond. We are keen to hear any questions you might have and to know what you think about the emerging proposal.
150 Minories, Today
150 Minories Location in Red
The existing building at 150 Minories was constructed in the 1970s and provides 59,000sqft of serviced office space. Whilst still in use, there are a number of issues with the design of the building which prevent it from providing a high quality, modern office environment.
Vine Street Today
Shared Kitchen in the Basement
Internal Offices
Typical Spine Corridor
We believe that there is an opportunity for the building to be reimagined as new homes and make a positive contribution to the area and the local community.
Therefore, we are proposing to sensitively refurbish and repurpose the building, changing its use from an office which is past its prime, to new high-quality homes.
It is our aim that the proposal will create a vibrant community inside the building which will then contribute to the established neighbourhood on its doorstep.
Our ambition is to re-use as much of the building as possible, therefore limiting the impacts of demolition and construction on the area and dramatically decreasing the amount of carbon produced by the project.
Our analysis of the current building at 150 Minories has found that the existing façade and plant are tired and are not in a particularly healthy condition. At HUB, we have considered how to modernise the building, give it a longer, more prosperous future as new homes whilst positively enhancing the impact on the local community.
We are proposing to retain the existing building structure from basement to the sixth floor. The existing seventh to ninth stories will be removed and rebuilt as their existing floor to ceiling heights are too constrained for residential use.
The proposed retro-fit scheme is c. 25% more efficient when compared to the new build over a 60-year span.
Residents at 150 Minories will live in a community where everyone has their own private spaces, as well as communal spaces for dining, leisure, socialising and exercising.
The shared amenity spaces help to foster enhanced interaction and engagement between residents which doesn’t happen in blocks of individual, private homes.
This type of residential community can provide a higher quality, more enjoyable and more affordable option for people looking to live in London.
Section of Proposed 150 Minories Layout
Studio Homes
These high-quality homes will be designed and furnished for one person to live in with lounge space, private ensuite and kitchenette cooking facilities as well as adequate storage.
Well-designed communal spaces to foster interactions.
Thought out homes design with spaces to work and play.
Green spaces to relax on the terraces and ground floor.
We are in the early stages of our proposals and would like to have a ground floor that is open and contributes positively to the surrounding area. There is an opportunity to activate both Minories and Vine Street frontages by establishing an accessway through the building.
We have the opportunity to provide a community use space open to both residents and the public which will help bring the existing local community into the building.
Illustration of how the building could provide connectivity between Vine St and Minories
We’re very conscious that 150 Minories interacts closely with the neighbouring buildings. Therefore, we want to ensure that the design of the building compliments and responds to the surrounding context. To do this we have been taking inspiration from the unique architecture in the local area in terms of the building shapes, façade design and colours. These are very early sketches which give an idea of the scheme they are still to be developed.
View from St Botolph without Aldgate, Aldgate High St
Emerging Design from St Botolph without Aldgate, Aldgate High St
View from 50 Minories, looking North
Emerging Design from 50 Minories, looking North
