This gorgeous art deco office building in the City of London is being converted into a hotel – with a revived pub

If you’re an art deco architecture geek, you’ll no doubt know all about Ibex House. The shimmering pale office building, which you’ll find on the east side of the Minories in the City, is renowned for its long streamline moderne curves and mesmerising black-framed windows. The vast H-shaped structure is Grade II-listed and one of London’s most remarkable surviving art deco buildings.

Ibex House was designed by Fuller, Hall and Foulsham and finished in 1937. Now, after nearly 90 years, it’s been confirmed that the building will change purpose. An application to transform the 250,000 square-foot building into a hotel has been approved by the City of London.

Ibex House was acquired by hotel developer and operator Dominus (as well as investment firm Cheyne Capital JV) in December 2025. They’ll enlist designers Studio Moren to turn the office building into a 382-room hotel – and much of the original structure will remain the same. All of the building’s substructure and 90 percent of its superstructure won’t be touched by the plans.

As well as a hotel, the redeveloped address will feature a conference centre (with a ballroom), café, hospitality training academy and, excitingly, a reopened pub.  

The Peacock pub, which sits at the corner of the building and opens onto Minories and Portsoken Street, closed around 2017. Part of the redevelopment of Ibex House will see the Peacock reopened, though the boozer will also double in size from 2,300 to 5,000 square feet and include within it a new speakeasy-style bar. The new pub will apparently pay tribute to the wider building’s art-deco-ness.

Dominus currently operates the likes of The Dixon near Tower Bridge and several outposts of Hilton’s Curio Collection. It’ll also operate the hotel at Ibex House. As well as architecture fanatics, the hotel will be well suited to both tourists and business travellers, being both in the City and near Tower Bridge and the Tower of London.

The redevelopment of Ibex House is set to be complete by 2028.

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