Building Awards 2019: Office Refurbishment of the Year shortlist

Building Awards 2019 refurbishment Bracken-House

Ike Ijeh looks at the contenders for Building magazine’s awards for office refurbishment

Moretown Building 6, London

  • Architect: Gensler / KDS Associates 
  • Client: Resolution Property 
  • Contractor: Galliford Try 
  • Submitted by: Resolution Property

Gensler is an architectural practice renowned for its extensive work in office interiors. Therefore the project to design the interior of the firm’s own office provides a fascinating opportunity to see how the company applies its fit-out design principles to its workplace. The final execution does not disappoint. Comprehensively refurbishing both the interior and exterior of what was formerly an anodyne glass-tinted 1990s office block, the project sees a more legible and transparent exterior skin applied over an extensively reworked open-plan interior arranged around a new atrium, breakout spaces, meeting rooms and a new glazed attic, primarily finished with warm yet robust cross-laminated timber surfaces.

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