On the completion of Redchurch Corner, our client purchased the adjacent building at 56 Redchurch Street and commissioned 31/44 to develop proposals for a significant extension to their hotel. The existing dilapidated single-storey building was demolished and replaced by a new building with two basements and four/five storeys above ground, including a restaurant, bar and an additional 21 hotel rooms. The new scheme does not merely mimic or form a visual extension to the previous Redchurch Corner scheme that it adjoins and extends, but has a visual and material language of its own; maintaining the fairly piecemeal nature of the local urban fabric of mid-rise, narrow-fronted buildings. Instead, it is the proportion of the new building that relates directly to that of its neighbour, with concrete banding at first and third floor continuing through from Redchurch Corner and an attic storey that knits together the roof levels of both 58-60 and 54. The grey brick chosen for the first and second floors of the new scheme complements the dark grey of the jesmonite panels on Redchurch Corner, while lending the new building more texture and variation, and providing a smooth transition to the stock brick of no. 54. That the two new facades incorporate similar elements in a similar material palette (albeit articulated in a slightly different way), ensures that the building is read as a coherent entity when walking around the urban block. That the new scheme shares a language, colour palette and contextual sensibility with Redchurch Corner, ensures that the two schemes are read as parts of the same whole.