The Park Plaza Westminster Bridge is a hotel at 200
Westminster Bridge Road
Westminster Bridge Road is a road in London, England. It runs on an east–west axis and passes through the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark.
Between 1740 and 1746, the Commissioners of Westminster Bridge bought land from the Archbishop of C ...
in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
with 1,019 bedrooms.
It was designed by BUJ architects, Uri Blumenthal architects and Digital Space,
and was built on the site of the County Hall Island Block, an annex of
London County Hall
County Hall (sometimes called London County Hall) is a building in the district of Lambeth, London that was the headquarters of London County Council (LCC) and later the Greater London Council (GLC). The building is on the South Bank of the ...
, that was demolished in 2006. The building, also known as No 1 Westminster Bridge Road, had been disused since 1986 and had become derelict, being described by the BBC as "one of London's most hated eyesores".
The hotel opened on 1 March 2010
and cost £300 million.
It is part of the
PPHE Hotel Group.
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Hotel at Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts
Buildings and structures in the London Borough of Lambeth
Hotels in London
Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts
PPHE Hotel Group hotels
Hotels established in 2010
Hotel buildings completed in 2010
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