NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2014 NEW MARKETING SUITE BRINGS ONE BLACKFRIARS CONCEPT TO LIFE Computer enhanced image of One Blackfriars is indicative only. A lot has happened in the last few months. Alongside laying the Tower s foundations, we have launched the new Marketing Suite, showcasing the elegant design schemes conceived by Interior designers Tara Bernerd & Partners, TH2 and The London Furnishing Company. Spread across three levels, the space is a vivid experience of the One Blackfriars vision and lifestyle. Visiting the Marketing Suite you are greeted by its grand entrance, and beyond its doors you will proceed into the guest lounge, featuring a scale model of the entire development with the Tower at its centre, an exact representation of the sheer brilliance of its architecture. You can then take a tour up through the building into the three show apartments. Highlighting the ascending specifications, the Gainsborough, Turner and Hepworth show apartments will give you a truly accurate representation of the finishes and fittings of the three collections. With such an exquisite range of specification to choose from, each interior will be of the highest quality. Open Monday to Friday: 10:00am 8:00pm Saturday to Sunday: 10:00am 6:00pm 1-16 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 9UF +44 (0)20 7871 7188 oneblackfriarssales@stgeorgesl.com www.oneblackfriars.co.uk Marketing Suite opening times correct at time of going to print.
STUNNING SHOW APARTMENTS REVEAL THE THREE COLLECTIONS Designed by internationally renowned interior designers Tara Bernerd and Partners, the three collections are named after leading British artists: Thomas Gainsborough, the 18th century portrait and landscape painter; JMW Turner, revered for his Romantic and Impressionist landscapes and the 20th century Modernist sculptor Barbara Hepworth, to celebrate the cultural heritage of the South Bank. The collections offer a range of apartments with a choice of two design schemes. THE HEPWORTH COLLECTION Barbara Hepworth worked with the finest metal, stone and wood to shape her wonderful sculptures. The Hepworth Collection embodies this spirit of the connoisseur, using exquisite materials sourced from around the world to create outstanding living spaces distinctive, contemporary apartments with the very latest technology. THE TURNER COLLECTION Turner was the master of light and reflections, and these two and three bedroom apartments, with a high specification, exhibit exceptional use of space and lighting. THE GAINSBOROUGH COLLECTION Encompassing classical elegance, handsome features and attention to detail, The Gainsborough Collection will provide stylish studios, Manhattan and one bedroom apartments. Interior show apartment photography with indicative views.
A STRONG ADDITION TO THE MARRIOTT AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION We are pleased to announce that Amerimar Enterprises in partnership with Realstar Group, have entered into an agreement to own, develop and operate the hotel here at One Blackfriars. As part of this mixed-use project, the 161-bedroom hotel will stand at 6 storeys high and will offer guests a unique experience in this rapidly evolving area of central London. From the outside, this building is a striking addition to the South Bank and the perfect place for friends and relatives of residents to stay. Inside, there will be three restaurant and bar offerings (one of which will be a double height bistro restaurant), a lounge, conference facilities, gymnasium, spa and to top it all off, a rooftop terrace. With direct access to the thoughtfully designed public piazza, the hotel will complement the world class offering currently being crafted by St George. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2018. Computer enhanced image of the Mondrian Hotel is indicative only. MONDRIAN LONDON OPENED IN SEPTEMBER 2014 Mondrian London opened its doors on 30th September. It is the first European venture of Morgans Hotel Group, renowned for their signature luxury style across the United States. They have chosen a 1970s landmark, the Sea Containers House, as their London residence, commissioning Tom Dixon of Design Research Studios to redevelop the interior. Dixon draws his inspiration for design from the life and transportation history of the River Thames. Corridors reflect details of cruise liner cabins, whilst bathrooms represent style influenced by marine engineering, complete with copper bolts and sheathing. The sensation is that you are inside the hull of a ship, which culminates in the expansive ground-floor lobby. Meanwhile, the view from the balcony suites stretches across the River Thames, bringing London s unique skyline into the frame. Alongside its 359 guestrooms and suites, Mondrian London boasts a bathhouse & spa, riverside restaurant, cocktail bar and private screening room. The rooftop bar is pitched as the place to mingle and watch the scene. Housed in a glass box, it evokes being at the masthead of a ship, floating down the Thames. Mondrian London at Sea Containers holds a coveted position on the River Thames. Immersed in the neighbourhood s urban buzz, it is within walking distance to several cultural spots, including the Tate Modern and the Royal Festival Hall and is in extremely close proximity to One Blackfriars. It joins the riverside renaissance rippling down the South Bank. www.morganshotelgroup.com/mondrian/mondrian-london Computer Generated Image of the One Blackfriars Hotel Building is indicative only.
AUTUMN EVENTS ON THE SOUTH BANK THEATRE: ELECTRA Old Vic, 22 September 20 December Teaming up once again with director Ian Rickson, actress Kristin Scott Thomas will play the lead in Electra, a classic Greek story of power and revenge. The play joins the seductive autumn season at the Old Vic, also featuring Clarence Darrow with Kevin Spacey, and is the latest stage performance by Scott Thomas, who won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress, following her representation as Arkadina in Chekhov s The Seagull. Adapted by Frank McGuinness, Electra tells the tragic tale of a daughter consumed by grief and anger, after the murder of her farther Agamemnon. With her brother, Orestes, she seeks revenge against her mother and stepfather, leading to merciless episodes and a haunting conclusion. www.oldvictheatre.com DANCE THEATRE: JOHN National Theatre, 30 October 13 January Dominic Dromgoole s production at the Globe has been described as captivating and whilst not one of Shakespeare s more loveable plays it is fleet, urgent, exciting and dangerous say the Financial Times. Opposing dictatorship and republicanism, private virtue and mob violence, Shakespeare s tense drama of high politics reveals the emotional currents that flow between men in power. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk ART: MIRRORCITY Hayward Gallery, 14 October 4 January 2015 Exhibiting pieces from emerging and established artists working in London, MIRRORCITY is a visceral exploration of the digital revolution and its influence on our experiences. The works engage with the conditions and consequences of living in the digital era, posing the key questions: How can we navigate the space between the digital and the physical? and What is the effect of advanced technologies on our lives? It is a thought-provoking collection, which is bound to illustrate how close reality has come to some of science fiction s most fantastic fantasies. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/hayward-gallery
ART: ALIBIS - SIGMAR POLKE 1963 2010 Tate Modern, 9 October 2014 8 February 2015 Sigmar Polke was one of the most insatiably experimental artists of the twentieth century. This retrospective is the first to bring together the unusually broad range of media he worked with during his five-decade career not only painting, drawing, photography, film and sculpture, but also notebooks, slide projections and photocopies. He worked in off-the-wall materials ranging from meteor dust to gold, bubble wrap, snail juice, potatoes, soot and even uranium, all the while resisting easy categorisation. www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern MUSIC: ST PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, YURI TEMIRKANOV AND MAXIM VENGEROV Royal Festival Hall, 8 November It is a repertoire to stir the soul and musicians with the magic touch - the best of Russia comes to the Southbank Centre. Big tunes and rich intensity fill this programme of classics performed by the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Russia s oldest orchestra, with conductor Yuri Temirkanov and virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov. The concert opens with Lyadov s atmospheric tone poem Kikimora. A work showing exceptional flair for orchestral colour, it is inspired by the legend of the Russian house spirit that causes mischief. Consistently voted an audience favourite, Tchaikovsky s Violin Concerto - a deeply felt work full of melodic vitality, soul and virtuosic brilliance - is performed by Maxim Vengerov, an artist once again thrilling audiences following his sabbatical. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/royal-festival-hall ART: TRACEY EMIN THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU White Cube, 8 October 16 November This is a major new exhibition by Tracey Emin, her first at the London gallery in five years. Featuring bronze sculptures, gouaches, paintings, large-scale embroideries and neon works, the exhibition chronicles the contemplative nature of work by an artist who has consistently examined her life with raw candour. The work is about rites of passage, of time and age, and the simple realisation that we are always alone. Tracey Emin, July 2014 www.whitecube.com
LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWS BLACKFRIARS STORIES This autumn, St George sponsored and presented in partnership with Southwark Council, Blackfriars Stories a programme of four outdoor events that celebrated the wealth of history and culture in Blackfriars. Local residents were invited to watch the creative narratives reveal themselves. The first event took place on 2nd July. Trunk Road unfolded into a lively carnival of street performers, live music and parties. The star act was a gigantic mechanical elephant that led a procession of other animals along Blackfriars Road. Cabinet member, Dora Dixon-Fyle applauded the event, What a great way to celebrate the culture and history of the Blackfriars area, and as for a gigantic mechanical elephant, I am sure it was a fantastic sight to behold! Other events included a production of Romeo and Juliet and a city hunt. The closing act on Blackfriars Stories agenda took place between 20th and 29th October. Another Day was a theatrical production of eight short plays inspired by local tales. Commissioned by A Friend of a Friend Productions. SOUTHWARK COUNCIL S CYCLING VISION Committed to improving cycling in the borough, Southwark Council joined forces with experts from Denmark and the Netherlands to develop an active transport plan. Two-day workshops were facilitated by Copenhagenize Design Co. and Mobycon, which explored planning, policy, design and marketing. They were attended by Transport for London (TfL), along with key development partners and community representatives in the area including Southwark Cyclists, Living Streets, Dulwich Safe Routes, One Blackfriars and St George staff. These workshops were a great success. A WARM WELCOME Local Southwark resident, Brian Kasule has joined the Commercial Department at One Blackfriars, as Graduate Surveyor. We are pleased to have him on board. Brian was introduced to St George by Dan Taylor from Southwark Council. Now gainfully employed, St George plans to fund Brian s BSc in Quantity Surveying. Computer enhanced image of One Blackfriars is indicative only.
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY BY IAN SIMPSON Ian Simpson is the visionary behind One Blackfriars. As a co-founder of Ian Simpson Architects, his design philosophy centres on the force of design excellence to regenerate post-industrial cities. He sees architecture as a critical channel through which energy flows into an urban environment. Integrating his values in sustainability and innovation, and always with an eye for luxury and aesthetic detail, Ian Simpson has established an impressive reputation in architecture, and One Blackfriars is at the very height of his brilliance. Inspiration for the shape of the building came from the Lansetti II vase, created in 1952 by designer Timo Sarpaneva. The Lansetti II vase created in 1952 by designer Timo Sarpaneva Ian Simpson Architect