'Topping out' ceremony for new Sunderland Riverside buildings
- last year
The latest additions to Sunderland’s skyline have moved a stylish step closer to completion.
Maker and Faber, two new office blacks on the former Vaux brewery site – now redubbed Riverside Sunderland – will create 150,000 sq ft of Grade A room, as well as shop space on the ground floor.
Sir Nigel Wilson, chief executive of pension company Legal & General, which is backing the development, joined Sir Andrew McAlpine, partner at construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine to fill in the last square of concrete, before a green bough was hammered to the framework.
Maker and Faber, two new office blacks on the former Vaux brewery site – now redubbed Riverside Sunderland – will create 150,000 sq ft of Grade A room, as well as shop space on the ground floor.
Sir Nigel Wilson, chief executive of pension company Legal & General, which is backing the development, joined Sir Andrew McAlpine, partner at construction firm Sir Robert McAlpine to fill in the last square of concrete, before a green bough was hammered to the framework.