McGee starts work to dismantle brutalist Sampson House

By Hamish Champ2019-01-22T06:00:00

Former data centre will make way for £1bn PLP-designed development

McGee has started demolition work on Sampson House, the former data centre which occupies the site of a mixed-use development designed by PLP on the south bank of the River Thames.

The brutalist building (pictured), designed by the Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, now Aukett Swanke, was originally a cheque-clearing station for Lloyds Bank when it opened exactly 40 years ago, before later being leased to US computing giant IBM as a disaster recovery facility and data recovery centre.

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