Police cordon off road around London’s iconic Blue Fin Building over “loose facade”

It's home to Time Inc UK and a host of other companies, but today London's iconic Blue Fin Building became a health and safety hazard. 

 

According to people working in the Southwark-based Blue Fin – so called because of 2,000 blue aluminium fins that cover the facade and shade the interior – the authorities were called in because of fears over loose panels. 

 

City AM understands that police restricted access to part of the building and the adjacent road as a health and safety precaution while it was established that the facia was safe.

 

The area around the building was cordoned off and buses diverted – but the building remained intact, and the road has since been reopened. 

 

Twitter users were unimpressed: 

 

 

 

 

 

Designed by award-winning architects Allies and Morrison, the building on 110 Southwark Street only opened seven years ago. 

 

UPDATE: This story was updated to reflect the fact that panels were loose rather than falling.