Spitalfields 办公楼改造丨英国伦敦丨ODOS Architects

Architect：ODOS Architects

Location：Spitalfields, London, UK; | ;View Map

Category：Offices

Recently completed on Middlesex Street, this development has revitalised a once-anonymous office building in the heart of the City of London, inside and out. With the return to work in the city, this project showcases the importance of well designed commercial spaces and the popularity of cycling to work in a post pandemic world. While walking down Bishopsgate, an epicentre of commerce and industry in the UK’s capital, Spitalfields House would have once been invisible to you - despite being positioned on a prominent street corner.

On behalf of real estate investors Seaforth Land, ODOS led a team of specialist consultants and engineers to refurbish the building to its core. When Seaforth Land bought the 7-storey office building, it was a labyrinth of small offices, retail units, plant rooms and inefficient circulation. The client’s ambition was to open the building up; creating larger, better-connected floor plates to maximise returns from higher-quality office spaces.

Our architectural principle was to ensure that these new open spaces, such as the main 2500sqft reception, embraced the awkward existing geometries to create exciting pockets of quality and intrigue. Alcoves, recesses and obtuse angles were utilised to create bays of seating, hidden working environments, planting areas and even a bike lift - enabling on-street access for cyclists down to the new 2000sqft basement cycling store, changing and shower facilities. Bespoke wayfinding lettering is cut into the brass shop fronts, to create a unique visual identity for the building's receptions, retail units and cycle store entrance.

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