BT Tower Hotel Conversion

London's 177-meter former Post Office Tower, a Grade II listed icon of 1960s telecoms engineering that dominated the skyline as the city's tallest building, is to be converted into a destination hotel by MCR Hotels, the American owner of New York's TWA Hotel. Architecture practice Orms leads the redesign, which spans the slender 34-floor cylindrical tower and the blocks at its base, and is expected to reopen the celebrated revolving restaurant at its summit, closed to the public for decades. The project promises panoramic 360-degree views across the capital from one of the most recognisable silhouettes in Fitzrovia, turning a piece of protected engineering heritage into hospitality.