Bam sews up £65m deal to redevelop Cass building

By Will Ing2019-08-13T05:00:00

AHMM's proposals for Central House, seen from Altab Ali Park

Former architecture school was originally a textiles factory

Bam has pipped rivals McLaren and Wates to be named preferred bidder for a £65m contract to redevelop the former East End home of an art, architecture and design school known as the Cass.

London Metropolitan University (LMU) sold the 1960s former textiles factory, which was known affectionately as the ‘Aldgate Bauhaus’, to Fraser Property for £50 million in 2016.

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