Centre Point in London's St Giles was designed by George Marsh of R. Seifert and Partners and built from 1963 to 1966 as speculative office space for Harry Hyams. The infobox calls the style Modernist, and the text names none. It was listed Grade II in 1995. The cost was £5.5 million.
The complex has a 34-story tower, 385 feet (117 m) high, a nine-story eastern block with shops, offices and maisonettes, and a linking block. The reinforced concrete frame carries precast segments of fine concrete with crushed Portland stone. It stands almost above Tottenham Court Road station.
Conran and Partners converted the tower to flats, finishing in March 2018, with MICA handling the lower buildings. The article says it is largely unoccupied, earning the nickname ghost towers. Nikolaus Pevsner called it coarse in the extreme.
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