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Lord Fosters Greater London Authority Building

Wednesday, 10 July 2002

Lord Foster's Greater London Authority Building, affectionately dubbed "The Beehive" is another European Architectural triumph featuring an Australian Instant Boiling Water system!

London City Hall - Foster and Partners' new Greater London Authority building - has become one of the most intriguing pieces of architecture in London. And this state of the art London building (affectionately known as the Beehive) has a Zip HydroTap on each of its floors!

Truly stunning in concept and execution and now very much an icon of the London skyline, the Beehive is the latest incredible innovative in building design from Lord Norman Robert Foster's multi award-winning international Architecture and Design practice, Foster and Partners.

The Beehive provides 17,000 square metres of accommodation on ten floors. As well as incorporating offices, it also includes an Assembly Chamber, Committee Rooms, Mayoral suite and Public Facilities. In order to provide staff with well-deserved facilities for making hot and cold drinks, Interior London, in conjunction with Consulting Engineer CKE Services, specified Zip HydroTap to be incorporated into specially designed staff amenities - located on each of the Beehive's nine floors.

Zip HydroTap is the perfect appliance for prestige offices like the GLA. By providing filtered boiling and chilled water from a single tap, it is so convenient for making tasty, piping hot tea or coffee and refreshing cold drinks.

And the unique Tap Font means that the Zip HydroTap can be installed on virtually any work surface, removing the necessity to site it over a sink!

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