Morgan Sindall has handed over a £65 million commercial development in the heart of London's West End.

The six storey office development at 6 Agar Street provides 55,000 sq ft of new Grade A office space in Covent Garden and was built for Legal and General Property (LGP).

The West End office development (formerly the Strand Island building) has been transformed to create an entirely new internal structure, while preserving the listed façades on Chandos Place and Bedford Street.

This exceptional, quality project was delivered as a design and build contract, with architect Darling Associates novated to Morgan Sindall. Its unique design is focused around the building’s core and features an open-air central atrium with two levels of landscaped terrace at its base. Illuminated coloured glass fins also circle the levels above to create a striking visual effect.


LGP is targeting a BREEAM 'Excellent' rating, an incredibly bold challenge for an inner-city refurbishment project but consistent with its ambitions to keep raising the bar in terms of sustainable property development.

The building also makes provision for tenants’ increasing desire to behave in an ecologically responsible manner, and includes a ground floor parking area for circa 60 cycles, accessed from a separate entrance on Agar Street, with state-of-the art changing rooms and shower facilities. It capitalises on the appetite demonstrated by occupiers at LGP’s award-winning Central London development of Central Saint Giles, which offered 400 parking spaces for bicycles.

(CD/GK)