IN Brief:
- Multiplex has moved into main contractor delivery on Vista at 72 Upper Ground after an earlier pre-construction role.
- The former ITV Studios site is being redeveloped into a major mixed-use scheme with workspace, culture, food and beverage, and public realm.
- The project combines a £500m construction package with a wider £800m South Bank investment targeting completion in 2029.
Multiplex has moved into the main contractor phase on Vista, the redevelopment of the former ITV Studios site at 72 Upper Ground on London’s South Bank, after working on the project under a pre-construction services agreement. The transition takes one of the capital’s most visible mixed-use schemes from planning, legal clearance, and enabling activity into full delivery.
The construction package sits within a wider £800m development being brought forward by Mitsubishi Estate London and CO—RE. Designed by Make Architects, the scheme is planned to deliver around 640,000 sq ft of space, centred on a 25-storey office tower linked to buildings of 14 and six storeys. Alongside workspace, the programme includes food and beverage space, arts and culture uses, and a reworked ground plane intended to open the site back into the South Bank.
That public interface is a major part of the project brief. Earlier project material set out two public squares, new walkways, active ground-floor uses, and a rooftop restaurant and terrace, with around 40% of the site to be publicly accessible. It is a substantial change from the closed former TV complex that occupied the plot and one that gives the build a public-realm burden as well as a commercial one.
Environmental performance is also being used as a defining feature of the scheme. Multiplex has previously described the development as all-electric and fossil fuel-free, targeting net zero carbon in operation, BREEAM Outstanding, and WELL Platinum, with 1,300 cycle spaces and end-of-trip facilities built into the transport strategy. That pushes delivery complexity beyond the shell-and-core brief and further into systems integration, façade performance, and operational fit-out quality.
Completion is targeted for 2029. With demolition and enabling works already under way and the main contractor role now formalised, Vista moves into the stage where programme discipline, logistics, and interface management will matter as much as architecture on a constrained and politically visible riverside site.
