Keybridge

Built

Tim Crocker

Keybridge introduces five hundred and ninety-eight homes, a two-form-entry primary school, office spaces and retail units on the site of a redundant telecom switching station.

Keybridge is the landmark redevelopment of the former BT Telephone Exchange site on South Lambeth Road, providing 598 new homes, over an acre of public landscape, and 9,000 sqm of commercial/retail space. A rich mix of building typologies carve out a series of fluid public and private spaces; mansion blocks, towers, terraces, maisonettes, a school and even ‘houses’ on rooftops. The three towers form a family with the tallest rising to 36 storeys in distinct steps in response to its context. Keybridge offers a fresh approach of a friendlier, more neighbourly form of high density development in the city.

Londons Tall Buildings Survey 2021

Keybridge is the landmark redevelopment of the former BT Telephone Exchange site on South Lambeth Road, providing 595 new homes, over an acre of public landscape, and 9,000 sqm of commercial/retail with 500–1,000 new jobs for the area. The first phase involves 74,300 sqm of redevelopment across a mix of building typologies: a tower, a linear block, maisonettes and two mansion blocks. The scheme introduces four hundred and fifteen dwellings on the site of a redundant telecoms switching station, built in the 1970s. The proposals seek to repair the urban fabric which has been truncated and blighted by the introverted brutalist development.

Height: 125m
Number of storeys: 37

New London Awards 2023

Shortlisted in the Housing Category

Keybridge introduces five hundred and ninety-eight homes, a two-form-entry primary school, office spaces and retail units on the site of a redundant telecom switching station, built in the 1970s.

Vote for this project in the People’s Choice award: https://bit.ly/NewLondonPeoplesChoice. Deadline 8 October 2023, 23:45.

Project information

Status

Built

Borough

Lambeth

Completion

2022

Location

39 S Lambeth Rd, London SW8 1RH, UK

Team Credits

Client

Mount Anvil, BT Property