looking up from Oxford street, there are still ghostly traces of the old department store in the architecture and design of the higher floors, fleeting connections to an older form of consumer culture.
The plaza has been through the hands of japanese, German and swiss property companies, and has been a problematic retail space, ironically afflicted by the continuing challenges of the 'wrong end of Oxford street'.It has been much more successful as a property development; its extensive offices currently house the headquarters of philip Green's Arcadia Group.