Metro Central Heights

It was originally known as Alexander Fleming House, a multi-storey office complex designed by Hungarian-born modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger and constructed in the early 1960s for Arnold Lee of Imry Properties.

The design was favoured both by the property developer Imry and by the London County Council as it promised the largest amount of lettable space and therefore the best financial return for the site.

The development became its headquarters, and shortly afterwards Ernő Goldfinger was commissioned to design two additional blocks, D and E. The building received a Civic Trust Award in 1964.

The design flexibility served the building well when it was saved from demolition and converted into a residential development and renamed "Metro Central Heights"[3] by St George Plc[4] (a division of Berkeley Group Holdings) in 1997.

Planning permission was granted on appeal for a further 15-storey block by St George Plc named Vantage Metro Central[5] on what was formerly the development's surface car park in February 2004.