Sellar moves on London 橋（渡しをする） area

By JAMES ROSSITER
Updated: 00:00 BST, 12 September 2003

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VETERAN 所有物／資産／財産 developer Irvine Sellar has stepped up his （選挙などの）運動をする to change London's skyline with the 購入（する） of a Sixties office 封鎖する （ーのために）とっておくd for redevelopment abutting his 提案するd 'shard of glass' 超高層ビル at London 橋（渡しをする）.

Sellar 所有物／資産／財産 Group has teamed up with CLS Holdings to buy New London 橋（渡しをする） House, a 20-storey 封鎖する just inside the London 橋（渡しをする） 駅／配置する concourse, for £39.5m.

The building is next to Southwark Tower, another Sellar- CLS owned building, which could by 2007 be turned into a needle-形態／調整d glass high-rise, dubbed 'the shard of glass' if a planning 調査 許すs the 議論の的になる 事業／計画（する） later this year.

Sellar and CLS hinted at their redevelopment 計画（する）s for New London 橋（渡しをする） House on Friday.

The building, they said in a 共同の 声明, 'could 供給する a greater capacity for regeneration of the London 橋（渡しをする） area beyond that 現在／一般に 想像するd by Renzo Piano's 'shard of glass' 提案するd redevelopment of Southwark Tower'.

New London 橋（渡しをする） House is 占領するd by five tenants 含むing 基準 借り切る／憲章d Bank, Coutts & Co and Marubeni Europe on 賃貸し（する）s 満了する／死ぬing in 2009. The building 現在／一般に 供給するs 131,000 square feet of office space.

Any new building on the 場所／位置, however, could 供給する up to eight times as much space if the 'shard of glass' 計画（する）s are anything to go by.

A source の近くに to Sellar said: 'Buying New London 橋（渡しをする） House gives us 支配（する）／統制する over the whole 駅／配置する concourse.'

The building is planned to be more than 1000 feet tall with more than 60 storeys making it Britain's biggest, outstripping Canary Wharf's Canada Tower, and the world's sixth largest.