Pharmaceutical Giant Novartis Set to Move into White City Place
While new arrival Arts Alliance Media is 'delighted' with offices on Wood Lane
Novartis, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, will open a new head office in Wood Lane's White City Place in spring next year.
Novartis will be joining fellow life sciences companies Autolus and Synthace in residency at White City Place, with further announcements in the pipeline.
The 1.9 million square foot business, innovation and life sciences district in West London alongside Imperial College’s White City Campus.
White City Place is cementing itself as an integral part of the emerging west London life sciences cluster, alongside Imperial College's nearby White City Campus.
Haseeb Ahmad, the company's UK Country President says: "The nature of healthcare and medicine is changing and as we pivot towards becoming a focused medicines company, powered by digital and data, we want to be closer to our customers and partners, and become better networked in the healthcare and life science ecosystem.
"White City is quickly becoming one of the UK's life sciences and technology districts, and the ethos of The WestWorks campus complements how we work to deliver on our strategy to reimagine medicine."
Meanwhile another newcomer, Arts Alliance Media, or AAM, the global leader in cinema software and services, has announced it has now relocated to state-of-the-art offices in the Westworks, a newly renovated office building right at the heart of White City Place.
The facilities have been professionally designed to AAM’s specifications, and have been tailored to facilitate their unique working requirements as a software company within the cinema industry.
The new office includes a designated stand up area, multiple collaborative work spaces, an extensive lab where the engineering team can work with cinema projectors and servers, a spacious and comfortable breakout area, and a boardroom equipped with a fully DCI compliant projector for presentations.
"We are all thrilled with our new office," says Patrick Foley, CEO of AAM. "It is the perfect place for our employees to flourish and our business to keep growing. We’re looking forward to becoming an integral part of the world-class media and technology community that has sprung up in White City Place."
The WestWorks was formerly the headquarters of the BBC’s administrative division. Since then, the building has been completely renovated, and the area reimagined as a vibrant commercial campus.
.Other tenants at White City Place include the Yoox Net-a-Porter technology centre, the workspace accelerator for tech businesses and biotech start-ups, Huckletree West, and the pioneering tech ‘scale-ups’ Attention Seekers and Arts Alliance Media.
The site boasts onsite fitness complexes Studio Lagree and F45 Fitness, alongside a host of modern restaurants, bars and cafés, including Feast, Coco Di Mama and Waka. The WestWorks building is also home to The Studio, a state of the art 100-seater space equipped with the latest technology in audio and visual recording.
December 10, 2018
