Cultural

Tate Modern, the Royal Opera House, the National Gallery, BFI Imax, Glyndebourne, The British Library — the list of cultural landmarks in our portfolio runs longer than your typical developer. These projects have taught us how to help shape and realise a vision that’s bigger than bricks and mortar: to make a place where magic can happen.

Working with people like Nicholas Serota, former director of Tate, certain instincts and ideas rub off on you. So many Stanhope projects have reached towards his idea that public spaces have a duty to lift people up, make you feel invited and inspired, whether through public artworks, communal outdoor spaces or other means. To achieve cultural significance a place has to mean something, and that helps us as much with Television Centre as any of the opera houses we’ve created.

On the go currently we have a number of projects with cultural offers baked-in alongside other uses. Our new tower at 1 Undershaft will accommodate London Museum in its lower floors, while 55 Bishopsgate will provide the potential new home for The London Centre. And of course there’s our new revamp of the British Library in King’s Cross.