Structural Engineer: Price & Myers MEPH
Engineer: GDM
Fire Engineer: Exova
Sustainability Consultant: Darren Evans
Planning Consultant: DPP
Project Manager, Cost Consultant: Jackson Coles
Main Contractor: Kind & Company
CDM Coordinator: Jackson Coles
Acoustic Engineer: Sandy Brown Associates
Two Tabernacle Street
Piercy&Company
A refined interpretation of the original period
out shell of the original building was all that
elevation was then painstakingly constructed,
stood on the site of Two Tabernacle Street. The
to be in keeping with the surrounding
building’s owner, Durley Investment Corporation,
Victorian warehouse character and that of the
sought to redevelop the site into offices suited
conservation area in which it sits and to align
to Shoreditch’s media and technology sector.
with the revised internal floor levels. Imperial
Piercy&Company’s response was to approach
brickwork with weathered pointing and
the challenging L-shaped site as two distinct
stonework cills, cornices and column capitals
elements: the re-instatement of the narrow
bear on one another to create an authentic
Victorian façade to Tabernacle Street; and brass-
Victorian masonry frame. Openings are spanned
clad office spaces in the centre of the site. Details
with steel beams and infilled with traditionally
of the surviving features of the Victorian façade
detailed double glazed sash and casement
to Tabernacle Street were carefully measured
windows. At street level a 3m x 4m frameless
and catalogued.
glazed picture window to the reception space
provides a contemporary touch.
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Following a fire in March 2010, the burnt