Tower Hamlets Town Hall opens 15.03.23

Tower Hamlets Town Hall – the new home for Tower Hamlets Council and the services it provides to the public – has completed and welcomed the council’s staff as well as opening its doors to residents of the borough.

The project, which has been more than seven years in the making, has transformed and extended the Grade II listed former Royal London Hospital complex on Whitechapel Road to create a new, more accessible headquarters for the council, including a range of spaces from a new Council Chamber to smaller offices, meeting rooms and breakout spaces. In addition to the complete refurbishment of the listed structure, parts of which date from the 1700s, a new build extension provides six floors of open plan, flexible office space, its contemporary design complementing the historic fabric. Read more about the new Town Hall here. 

AHMM was appointed to the project in 2016 following a competitive tender process. The wider team includes heritage consultant Richard Griffiths Architects; civil and structural engineer Elliott Wood; MEP, fire and environmental consultant Atelier Ten; facade engineer Eckersley O’Callaghan; access consultant Probyn Gibbs; cost consultant Exigere; landscape consultant Kinnear and Levitt Bernstein; planning consultant Gerald Eve; and acoustic designer Gillieron Scott. Bouygues was the main contractor.