WARREN STREET

Year: 1995
Contract value: £350,000

The building, situated in the Bloomsbury Conservation Area of Camden, was purchased by the Client to be turned into speculative offices and accommodate the Client’s own office.

The property consisted originally of two buildings facing each other, which were then joined by infilling the inner courtyard. As a result the property has two entrances.

The ground floor had retail use and many of the upper floors were vacant.

The façade on Warren Street had characterless fifties glass and steel cladding and the lower ground floor had no visual connection to the street.

The brief called for a renewed frontage, a communal reception area for the multiple office tenancies and a light and airy top floor for the Client’s office.

The refurbishment of the façade comprised a general overhaul of the upper storeys where the cladding was framed in white render and a remodelled ground floor level. An improved existing entrance door was complemented by a new entrance bridge with a steel and glass canopy and access to the lower ground via steel stairs as part of the new canopy’s design.

The ground floor layout was remodelled to form a new communal reception area accessed from the new entry.

The existing top floor was remodelled to form a central atrium topped by a new large roof light providing natural light to the remainder of the space.