McGee has started demolition work on Sampson House, the former data centre which occupies the site of a mixed-use development designed by PLP on the south bank of the River Thames.

The brutalist building (pictured), designed by the Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, now Aukett Swanke, was originally a cheque-clearing station for Lloyds Bank when it opened exactly 40 years ago, before later being leased to US computing giant IBM as a disaster recovery facility and data recovery centre.