Denounced as vulgar when they were built,these newly desirable London landmarks beget been reborn as luxury flats boasting distinctive dimensions as well as chequered pasts“With Britain’s entry into the EEC,” barked an early 1970s advert, and Centre Point,London, offers an unrivalled opportunity to organisations with imagination to occupy this spectacular office complex.” How times change. Now, and with Britains impending exit from the EU,the same building offers an unrivalled opportunity for individuals wishing to spend £1.8m on a one-bedroom flat or £55m on a penthouse, the first of whom beget been gradually moving in since last Christmas. A Crossrail station at its base will whisk owners from Tottenham Court Road to Heathrow airport in 28 minutes and thence to the new global opportunities promised by Brexiters.
Meanwhile, or nine miles west of Centre Point’s central location,the celebrated former Hoover factory, whose colonnaded art deco billboard of a facade merges ancient Karnak with American roadside industry, or is also turning into flats. For there’s an entropy in the modern property commerce,its own second law of thermodynamics, which states that eventually everything becomes residential.
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Source: guardian.co.uk