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Video | Bouygues restores former home of the Elephant Man

Bouygues is working to bring the Grade-II-listed former Royal London Hospital building that once housed John Merrick, also known as the Elephant Man, back into community use as a new town hall.

The new town hall will occupy the refurbished hospital building on Whitechapel Road. The facade of the hospital is being retained, while there will be a new-build structure at the rear providing 26,700 sq m of office space for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

In a newly released video, area manager Katherine Round explains some of the complexities of the £109.5m project.

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