品诚梅森律师事务所办公室丨英国曼彻斯特丨SpaceInvader

SpaceInvader’s design for the Pinsent Masons offices in Manchester seamlessly integrates functional elegance with contemporary aesthetics, fostering collaboration and productivity while honoring the city’s architectural heritage.

Pinsent Masons is a multinational law firm with offices in 29 countries across 4 continents, offering its clients multi-sector legal expertise. As a highly-professional and well-established global player, the creation of a new office environment for the firm’s Manchester team, ensuring they could be at their most focused and productive, came with a very precise brief and a strong accent on functional elegance.

To design the new offices, the firm appointed SpaceInvader to help achieve the contemporary, refined and functionality-driven working environment it required. When it came to location, a site was selected on the 7th and part of the 8th floors of the new, high-profile No.1 St Michaels development (by Gary Neville’s Relentless Developments).

Whilst the firm’s values of quality, reliability and longevity hold true as requirements for all its office spaces, the new 2,452 sq m Manchester office was to be a step-change from its direct predecessor, not only in look and feel – moving away from the former office’s red and white brand-led feel – but also in terms of responding to how its team now wished to work. Workshops were held by SpaceInvader for each individual team at Pinsent Masons, with every member of staff contributing their requirements to feed into the overall planning of the space.

At Pinsent Masons, legal experts work collaboratively with colleagues across business operations, sitting in neighbourhood groupings, with non-assigned desks in each particular zone, along with amenity provision and call/focus areas. Sit-stand desking is incorporated throughout – amounting to 50% of all desks – along with multi-faith and contemplation spaces.

The aesthetic look and feel of the new scheme, meanwhile, responded specifically to the city of Manchester and the immediate environs of the building rather than to brand-based requirements. References are made in the design to the brick and stone of the older surrounding buildings, for example, as well as to features such timber panelling, though these are always translated into a high-quality and non-shouty modern vernacular.

Design: ：

SpaceInvader

Contractor: Overbury

Photography: Andrew Smith, SG Photography