Conran and Companions overhauls workplace foyer to characteristic hotel-style leisure areas

Structure follow Conran and Companions has renovated the bottom ground foyer of a central London workplace to create a shared area that “blurs the sides between work and play”.

Conran and Companions has redesigned the bottom ground of Holborn’s 200 Grey’s Inn Highway constructing to be a vivid and cozy shared workspace that features extra like a lodge foyer.

The challenge is shortlisted within the small workspace inside class of the 2019 Dezeen Awards.

“[The project] has been designed to re-imagine a brand new kind of floor ground area that interweaves workplace reception, personal members membership, café tradition and lodge expertise; blurring the sides between work and play,” stated the follow.

“A big process was to melt the big open area, meaningfully dividing it right into a sequence of linked environments with completely different makes use of.”

“The design responds to the altering work tradition of contemporary tenants, in the end giving the area a brand new lease of life,” it continued.

The workplace constructing, which is house to plenty of high-profile media organisations together with ITN Productions, ITV and Warner Bros, was initially designed by Foster + Companions and opened in 1991.

Its current foyer featured a traditional reception space that was largely solely used as an entry level to the broader constructing. The bottom ground area now combines an workplace reception, cafe and a mixture of formal and informal seating areas.

Staff and guests can select to loosen up on the cobalt-blue couch units or sit with a laptop computer on the tan leather-based seating banquettes that run across the room’s peripheries.

Gentle-hued timber desks and emerald velvet stool seats with brass bases have additionally been dotted all through.

The cafe is positioned on the rear of the foyer however can spill out into the remainder of the area throughout busy breakfast and lunchtime durations.

Strips of greenery have additionally been inset right into a rear wall to enhance air high quality and minimise noise ranges.

These design options are supposed to encourage customers to linger, combine and interact within the reception space, quite than merely passing via the area en path to places of work at larger ranges.

A palette of laborious and comfortable supplies – like terrazzo, steel, timber and leather-based – has been utilized to create an inviting inside that maintains a reference to the exterior city panorama, breaking down the barrier between the general public and company environments.

Gridded panels of lighting have additionally been inserted into the uncovered concrete ceiling to spotlight the prevailing construction and rhythm of the structure.

“In an try and work with the prevailing material, and never in opposition to it, our strategy has due to this fact employed equally genuine supplies to create new interventions,” stated the follow.

To minimise the disruption of the constructing’s inside structural format, joinery was additionally designed by the follow to regulate to the prevailing on-site situations.

“It was essential that the design each complemented the broader constructing and preserved the spirit of the unique design,” concluded the follow.

Conran and Companions has bases in London, Brighton and Hong Kong. The follow has most lately transformed architect Richard Seifert’s celebrated Centre Level tower into luxurious flats.