maximising internal planning and circulation
efficiencies. The ground floor spaces activate the
garden with their easy indoor-outdoor flow, in front
of the building security line. The efficient plan form
also achieves a better northern orientation, ideal
for sensible passive climatic design.
The Ground Floor
The arrival floor of the building acts as the heart
of the scheme, creating a dynamic and active
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zone where staff and visitors can gather, meet,
and exchange ideas. An increased floor to ceiling
height provides the balance between the comfort
and scale required in a more public floor.
The welcoming reception immediately in front
of the shuttle lifts comprises a striking marble
reception desk referencing the building’s angled
design language, highlighted with brass signage
and hanging pendant lights. Waiting areas and
break-out spaces are furnished in rich forest green,
deep blue, and burnt oranges. Furniture items echo
the building’s materials palette, including marble,
brass, stained veneers, and brown-black steel and
aluminium finishes.
The waiting space in the north-west nose of
the ground floor is complemented with floating
triangular acoustic ceilings, suspended light
fittings, and rich green and stained timber veneer
shop fitting. Tenants and visitors are regularly
to be found having casual meetings here, or at
the popular coffee shop alongside which is only
lightly separated by the angled screen fins from
the reception.
A selection of varying sized meeting rooms
with views onto the garden and terraces are fur-
nished with clean light white boardroom tables,
deep grey veneered servers which match the
stained veneer doors, bespoke geometric
wallpaper featuring the jewelled colour palette,
and artworks which call to mind the cityscape and
urban context.
In their previous locations the tenants did not
have these building amenities, tending to keep to
their private chambers, and the constant activity
here is testament to the success of the provision
of this public floor, and a forward-looking shift in
ways of working.
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