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Centre Point to become a club
By Alexa Baracaia, Evening Standard 25.09.06The iconic Centre Point building is to be transformed into a club with a view after standing empty for years.
The three top floors of the tower will open next summer as a restaurant and members' club. Kevin Spacey, Stephen Fry, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connolly, Ray Winstone and Graham Norton have already signed up to be members.
The club, with panoramic views, is headed by Pierre Condou, the Frenchman who founded Soho private members' bar Century. Its board includes Nick Allott, managing director of the Cameron Mackintosh group, and John Hegarty of Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising agency.
Mr Condou said: "The building is fantastic, with the best views in London. I feel very strongly the architect, Richard Seifert, has not got the acclaim he deserves and I want to bring his name back."
He added there was still an opportunity for people to buy into the project. Grade II-listed Centre Point, opened in 1966. It has been empty for a decade as the owners have searched for suitable tenants.
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I wonder whose 'great' idea it was to add the line of blue lighting around the top of the Centre Point building recently? I remain one of a minority, I suspect, who believes Richard Seifert's building is a great piece of modern architecture that doesn't deserve to be cheapened with a totally unnecessary and somewhat predictable gimmick - a little trick that is over employed and invariably inappropriately.
- Stuart Wilsdon, London
