Bennetts Associates gets green light for ‘Ugly Brown Building’

By Jim Dunton2018-07-24T11:53:00

Bennetts Associates' 'Ugly Brown Building' scheme in Camden, north London

Architect’s Camden canalside plan wins officers’ backing

Plans drawn up by Bennetts Associates to replace a former Royal Mail complex near London’s King’s Cross with a 12-storey mixed-use scheme have been approved by Camden’s planning committee.

Built in the 1980s, the St Pancras Way block – which backs on to the Regent’s Canal – is known as the Ugly Brown Building. The four-storey building, which has a 1.14ha footprint, was split into three units in a 2000 remodelling. Two of the units are owned by the British Airways Pension Fund, while the middle unit is owned by fashion brand Ted Baker which uses the building as its head office

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