BT Tower to become Hotel

[fourstardan]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68352...

My dad, mother, grandmother, grandfather, Uncle, Aunty oh and cousin have worked for BT so this building was always seen as the mothership.

Shame nobody got into it as a BT Employer, I think my grandad retired after donkeys years yet didn't get up there.

I guess it will now become another expensive hotel and restaurant like the Shard and others have become.

[SpudLink]

Not expressing a personal opinion, but I had to post this...

[FourWheelDrift]

[z4RRSchris]

just you wait till Westminster council, the Mayor / GLA and the SOS start fighting over the planning application in an election year.

[FourWheelDrift]

Maybe they will get the rotating restaurant working again.

[AmosMoses]

Been up there a fair few times thanks to my last job, (working for a BT reseller). Always a fun experience to have a drunk while London spins around you.

[Evercross]

FourWheelDrift said:

Exactly what I first thought of when reading the news.

As an aside - interesting that The Goodies predicted massive wall mounted flat screen TVs before anyone else!

[dudleybloke]

Ideal for weddings, will have a fantastic reception.

[Murph7355]

AmosMoses said:

Been up there a fair few times thanks to my last job, (working for a BT reseller). Always a fun experience to have a drunk while London spins around you.

You don't have to go up the BT Tower for that experience.

I've had it across London.

[Evercross]

dudleybloke said:

Ideal for weddings, will have a fantastic reception.

[Panamax]

It's never looked right since the microwave horns were removed.

Perhaps the new owners will fill the gap with a rollercoaster like certain other hotels!

[blueg33]

z4RRSchris said:

just you wait till Westminster council, the Mayor / GLA and the SOS start fighting over the planning application in an election year.

Pretty sure its in Camden not Westminster

[James6112]

fourstardan said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68352...

My dad, mother, grandmother, grandfather, Uncle, Aunty oh and cousin have worked for BT so this building was always seen as the mothership.

Shame nobody got into it as a BT Employer, I think my grandad retired after donkeys years yet didn't get up there.

I guess it will now become another expensive hotel and restaurant like the Shard and others have become.

In a different lifetime, 1980s, I was a BT engineer.
Went there a couple of times for work / pleasure.
A friend was based there, when it was a technical site..

[z4RRSchris]

blueg33 said:

Pretty sure its in Camden not Westminster

same same. can imagine hetherwick bangs 8 floors on the podium and council rinse them for affordable workspace

maybe i’ve been burnt too much

[vaud]

fourstardan said:

I guess it will now become another expensive hotel and restaurant like the Shard and others have become.

I'm glad they have sold it - they don't really need it any more and better than sitting idle and decaying. A hotel is one of the few possible ways of reusing the asset. I don't think it is tall enough or special enough to just be a tourist attraction.

It was fun going to a private BT event sometime in the 2000's but more niche/geek interest than a special event.

[simon_harris]

When the logo change to the person with the trumpet my father was one of the people that installed the sign at the top of the building

[MrBig]

Panamax said:

It's never looked right since the microwave horns were removed.

Perhaps the new owners will fill the gap with a rollercoaster like certain other hotels!

I've often thought the same. The same goes for the one at Stokenchurch next to the M40 too, and I assume many others.

[gruffalo]

FourWheelDrift said:

Maybe they will get the rotating restaurant working again.

I was last up the BT Tower a few years ago and it was working fine while I was eating lunch up there.

[Biggy Stardust]

Evercross said:

As an aside - interesting that The Goodies predicted massive wall mounted flat screen TVs before anyone else!

George Orwell was first, surely?

[FourWheelDrift]

blueg33 said:

z4RRSchris said:

just you wait till Westminster council, the Mayor / GLA and the SOS start fighting over the planning application in an election year.

Pretty sure its in Camden not Westminster

Fitzrovia and under Westminster Council control.