Since 2003, The Royal Bank of Scotland has been systematically creating high quality working environments for all personnel across a wide variety of central city locations throughout the UK. ID:SR received a stretching RBS brief for the refurbishment and fit-out of 1 Aldgate Union to provide an efficient, flexible, corporate workspace to accommodate 2,700 employees and functions associated with a non-customer facing facility.

Creating a perfect canvas for the Royal Bank of Scotland brand, this new customer-facing facility is a landmark building on the edge of the Spinningfields development in Manchester. RBS’s significant pre-let helped kick start what is described now as the Canary Wharf of Manchester.  The unashamedly modern building creates a real presence on to Deansgate and the Spinningfields Square.

Sheppard Robson carried out both the base build and interior design for this new headquarters office building pre-let to  Flemings who later became part of J P Morgan Chase.

Sheppard Robson achieved planning consent in June 2006 for a 21,000m² office building with its main entrance off Finsbury Square. The site currently consists of four separate buildings, including the locally listed Royal London House, situated adjacent to the landmark Triton Court.

Mount Street is a proposed landmark 25-storey office building on a key development site opposite Manchester Central. Retail and leisure accommodation is provided at street level, and the scheme includes underground car parking and spaces for 80 bicycles. The 23,250m² Sheppard Robson designed building will act as a beacon on arrival into Manchester city centre, strategically located between the established city core and emerging development proposals to the south.

3 Hardman Street, a landmark commercial building providing office and retail accommodation, has been designed as part of the wider regeneration of Spinningfields. At 37,000m² GIA, it is one of the largest commercial developments in Manchester.

Sheppard Robson's involvement with the complex phased redevelopment of Regent's Place on Euston Road by British Land, spans over 15 years. Part of the second phase, the design of this office building allows for multi-let opportunities, comprising two office wings separated from the exterior by two dramatic atria on the south and east façades.

Known as 399 Edgware, the innovative and sustainable £200m proposals for the 3ha site include a landmark building that will set the trend for future development and regeneration in Brent. This mixed-use building cleverly integrates retail, community uses in the form of a school, and 520 residential units arranged around landscaped courtyards.

50-57 High Holborn is located within the London Borough of Camden, occupying a complete city block fronting on to High Holborn. Sheppard Robson has designed a scheme to integrate these valuable existing buildings and frontages, within a conservation area, into a mixed-use development centred around an office building appropriate to the emerging ‘Mid city’ location.

Sheppard Robson has designed and submitted a planning application for a unique building in London’s Theatreland. The concept will transform the Arts Theatre in Great Newport Street and is set to revolutionise the theatre experience. The design also incorporates a boutique hotel and high quality restaurant.

This building was designed speculatively but was subsequently adopted as the new headquarters for Grosvenor. It combines two plots in the Mayfair Conservation Area to form a single building.

Sheppard Robson has designed a landmark contemporary building located on a major pedestrian route to and from Victoria Station. 

The building, which adjoins the Apollo Theatre and replaces two existing structures, comprises 10,400m² of office accommodation and storage over 9 floors and 1,780m² of retail use at street and lower ground levels. 

Oak Hill is an Anglican Theological College, occupying a Grade II listed Georgian house with various 20th century additions in extensive parkland grounds. 

Sheppard Robson were appointed in 1997 to prepare a ten year master plan for the College. This included recommendations for improved facilities, which led to the development of the Academic Centre - a purpose-built library and study facility that replaced those formerly located in the main house.

In January 2004 Arup moved into the first phase of the masterplan intended to consolidate all of the Arup properties into a 23,225m² campus. 

Phase 1 entailed the refurbishment of existing 1960s buildings, and was carried out in association with London Merchant Securities (LMS), the freeholder of the properties. Phase 1 comprises a 10,210m² building accommodating approximately 750 of Arup’s 2,600 London-based employees.

Ashford Learning Campus, a purpose-built educational facility at South Kent College, is a Sheppard Robson designed building with a prominent façade, which will be located alongside the Eurostar terminal. The new building will be broken down into a pair of four-storey blocks, consisting of vocational workshops and a glazed atrium between, holding the reception, refectory and performing arts spaces.

Ashton New Road, in Clayton, east Manchester suffers from significant physical, social, and economic problems. The area has been identified by New East Manchester Urban Regeneration Company as a key priority. Sheppard Robson has been commissioned to carry out a strategic masterplan and development framework for the area; identifying a series of phased urban interventions to prevent further decline, foster community cohesion and establish a long-term, sustainable transformation process.

Sheppard Robson, as part of the SixtyK consortium, was selected as preferred bidder for Coxheath, a 3.9ha site formerly known as Linton Hospital, as part of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Design for Manufacture competition - the second win in the competition for SixtyK.

The Barking Riverside project is a major proposal for the large-scale, mixed-use regeneration of industrial wasteland in east London. Based on the concept of sustainable communities it comprises over 10,000 residential units, retail, office, schools, leisure space and a number of natural water reserves. The scheme is set within a strategic urban landscape and ecology plan, which carefully integrates with the built form.

BBC Arabic is a state-of-the-art, multi-platform news, radio and television studio facility in the East Wing of Phase 1 of the BBC W1 Broadcasting House Project. Pushing the boundaries of technology and design, ID:SR worked with the BBC to open up their traditionally enclosed acoustic television and radio studios to create a more open, glazed environment, making the process of fast-paced news more visible to staff and audiences. The design consists of two television studios and control galleries, supporting news production areas, and four radio studios equipped for live broadcast.

Sheppard Robson’s competition-winning design for the Department of Biological Sciences responds to the University of Bristol’s vision of creating a world-class research and teaching facility which will attract international students and academics, and provide future state-of-the-art accommodation to support the projected growth of the department.

The design of a new build primary care centre on Whitegate Drive, Blackpool, was led by Sheppard Robson. The design of the facility aimed at promoting a healing environment that incorporated increased patient safety, wellbeing, privacy and patient choice. The proposed scheme lent itself to a facility that addressed legislative and consumerism standards.

BP’s offices at Canary Wharf, London comprises two new trading floors, a management suite, café and support services for over 2,000 staff. Central to the design process was the involvement of all employees, focussed on retaining staff as they moved from four locations in London to one.

The Sheppard Robson redevelopment of Brentwood Community Hospital replaces an existing 1930s building to provide a new state-of-the-art hospital facility for the local community. The Hospital incorporates both inpatient and outpatient facilities. Situated on a site with exceptional ecology, the design is based on maximising views and light into the seven departments which range from rehabilitation to women’s and children’s services.

Phase 5 of the masterplan for Brunel’s Uxbridge campus comprises seven new blocks providing 543 student en-suite study bedrooms and a new Arts Centre. The layout of the residences is defined by the tree-lined course of the river Pinn to the east, and private housing to the north. This acts to form a new pedestrian access route running north to south, connecting to the main pedestrian route of the campus.

The most recent phase of the University’s Master-plan was completed in Aug 2008, delivering approximately 1,400 student study bedrooms in 17 four-five storey spine blocks, as predominantly 10 person flats. All the flats have large kitchen / dining rooms and bike stores and laundries are also provided in the development.

The university takes its name from the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The parkland site of the new university between Hillingdon Village and Uxbridge was situated between Slough, Watford and Acton in the largest industrial conurbation south of the Midlands.

Carabanchel 19 is the latest public housing development for the Madrid Housing Authority, Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo, fulfilling its ambitions to dignify and innovate housing programmes across Spain. Sheppard Robson’s concept was to create housing that enhanced the city’s image and provide legible living spaces which marry design and function and offer sustainable solutions for future models of housing.

CEME is a dynamic hub of education, enterprise and manufacture for east London; a flagship project for the Thames Gateway regeneration. It is the first purpose built campus in the country, providing a ‘one stop shop’ high-tech teaching and learning environment.

Planning consent for 100 George Street, Croydon was received, on behalf of developers Terrace Hill, in June 2008. Located on an island site at the crossroads of George Street and Dingwall Road, the 24,167m², 18-storey, office and retail development opposite East Croydon station will create a landmark building, acting as a prominent visual link between the proposed developments of the Croydon Gateway site to the north and Fairfield to the south.

Sheppard Robson was the eventual winner of a limited competition among twenty architectural practices to design Churchill College Cambridge in 1958. The client's requirement was for 60 fellows and 540 students, a high number for a Cambridge college.

City Quarter, Phase 1 of Sheppard Robson’s masterplan for Goodmans Fields on the east City boundary, comprises 294 contemporary residential units including new-build affordable, private, and luxury apartments within a converted Grade II listed Victorian warehouse building.

This major landmark office project in the City of London involved extensive refurbishment and extension to the former BP Britannic Tower. Originally constructed in the 1970s, the 36-storey structure was retained, extended and re-clad to improve its efficiency, and designed for multiple occupancies. The new building includes 111,480m² of office, retail, restaurant and leisure areas.

Coutts has built its reputation on understanding the needs of individuals, whatever their walk of life, and responding to them effectively and discreetly. ID:SR was commissioned to design the Bank’s private client facility within St Mary’s Axe, to reflect this very individual banking service.

The Multi Sports Hall is the first phase of Sheppard Robson’s anticipated three phase development for Cranfield University Sports Centre. The future phases will include a Multi Sports Centre, and a swimming pool. The maximum population for the proposed facility will be at graduation ceremonies where the highest attendance, currently 1200, is expected to rise to 1500 in future.

Creative Links is a project centred in and around Ealing Studios where a development and funding strategy, and potential funding streams, have been created for the advancement of learning and enterprise for creative media and information communication technology (ICT) in Ealing. The project seeks to capitalise on Ealing’s existing creative and cultural assets; building relationships with existing initiatives and contributing to the community renaissance of Ealing and West London.

Culture Park is a unique Sheppard Robson proposition to create a meaningful and visionary cultural legacy for Newham after the 2012 Olympic Games. The proposal is based on the principles enshrined in the Olympic Charter. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Sheppard Robson was asked to design high quality residential accommodation, based on an existing masterplan and feasibility study for Roehampton University. Lee House, providing 4,885m² of accommodation over six levels, is on a highly visible part of the campus. 140 bedroom units provide a singular building for student accommodation and also provide facilities for conference delegates during non-term time.

This development comprises a 25,000m² headquarters and operational centre for Dun & Bradstreet in a landscaped park.

Sheppard Robson was appointed by the Ramada Marriott global framework to design the new Encore range of three-star, premium budget hotels for worldwide use. After studying the European prefabrication industry, two selected suppliers manufactured prototypes. Acting as the client’s representative for scheme and detail design, Sheppard Robson monitored the initial roll-out programme, assisting with the localisation of the concept design.

The proposed site for the Engineering and Computing Building is slightly de-centralised and will be built on a former hospital site next to the realitively new library. We understand that the building should ideally be contained under ‘one’ roof although we may wish to explore the possibility of clusters.

Sheppard Robson has designed an innovative two-storey ‘Active Learning Lab’ as the striking centrepiece to the redevelopment of the Department of Engineering at the University of Liverpool. The scheme provides the department with up-to-date facilities through the refurbishment of four existing buildings, creating a new entrance foyer and courtyard to act as the hub of the department.

Sheppard Robson was appointed as part of the Kier Education team to design the new 900-place Academy for 11-16 year olds,

Designed for Experian, the innovative global information solutions company, this 10,000m² data centre provides a stimulating environment for its workforce and clients. Incorporating highly resilient and adaptable technical areas for data processing and storage, the building features a striking 'digital' linear façade.

The redevelopment of Finzels Reach, a prominent site in central Bristol, incorporates a large mixed-use scheme including 399 residential units. The site is located on the historic Courage Brewery site fronting the Floating Harbour and is intended to be a new landmark centre for residents and visitors alike. Sheppard Robson’s proposal for the residential element also includes 92 affordable units.

Sheppard Robson’s masterplan for the redevelopment of Finzels Reach in Bristol comprises a dynamic and diverse mixed-use scheme of luxury apartments, social housing, landscaped gardens, grade-A office space, quality public realm and more than 8,300m² of shops, restaurants and cafés, all with full accessibility to the floating harbour waterside.

GSK was seeking the creation of prime research facilities in order to achieve the highest standards worldwide, and so developed its own bespoke facilities on a 30ha site. The Sheppard Robson designed campus was planned to create a parkland setting within which the buildings were grouped around a central courtyard. The laboratory buildings were designed to provide state-of-the-art research facilities, whilst ensuring efficiency of operation and ease of maintenance.

Glengall Bridge is a mixed-use high density development on the Isle of Dogs providing a mix of social and private residential, educational, commercial and cultural uses for both established and emerging communities within the area. The development creates a new focal point for the island with the construction of a stunning 230m high tower and a new urban square.

ID:SR undertook a major office refurbishment project at Sir John Soanes Grade I listed Bank of England in the City of London. The designers were challenged with overhauling the previous renovation, with its rudimentary acoustics and incongruous cellular layout unsympathetic to the historic surroundings. The work was completed in phases to allow continuity of day-to-day operations.

Sheppard Robson, on behalf of Consolidated Developments, has designed a unique building in London’s Theatreland. The concept will transform the Arts Theatre on Great Newport Street and revolutionise the theatre experience. The design incorporates a 62-bedroom hotel and a 160-cover high quality restaurant. The designs for the new theatre, hotel and restaurant are based on, and extend, the original concept for the Arts Theatre.

Phase 2 of the development at Grosvenor Waterside, a new urban quarter in south-west London, includes three residential blocks. It comprises 622 units, 40% of which are affordable - making it the largest release of affordable housing in Westminster City Council. Sheppard Robson was commissioned to design two of the three residential buildings, Moore House and Caro Point, both of which have received an Eco Homes ‘Very Good’ rating.

The Hackney Technology and Learning Centre was developed by Sheppard Robson as a new mixed-use building type. Housing a digital library, museum, cafe/bar, retail and offices, the building was the first PFI library in the country.

Sheppard Robson worked with Kent County Council to deliver a ‘sustainable futures industry strategy’ - identifying sustainable development opportunities to redefine ‘brand’ perception of the county and to encourage inward investment in the region. The most viable opportunity, Hadlow College, will provide a 500 acre agricultural education facility for a sustainable living campus and business institution, bringing together the two elements in partnership with rural business and the wider community.

Halliwells LLP has established itself as one of the UK’s fastest growing and most influential law firms. The company consolidated its Manchester business by taking occupation of a new flagship headquarters at 3 Hardman Square in the city’s regenerating Spinningfields district. ID:SR was commissioned to design the interior workspace to reflect the company’s dynamic ethos and future business vision.

Hangzhou is one of the seven ancient capitals of China, founded 2,200 years ago during the Qin dynasty. With a population of 6.4 million, it is the premier city in China for business and has been a leisure destination for many centuries. The Sheppard Robson concept for a new mixed-used development south of the Qiantang Jiang River, links the increasing affluence of the city to its outstanding natural beauty.

In September 1991, Sheppard Robson was commissioned by London & Manchester Assurance to design a landmark building on the corner of Finsbury Pavement and South Place, London EC 2. The result is The Helicon, one of London’s first sustainable buildings to combine retail and offices into a building that is energy-efficient and economical to run.

Sheppard Robson refurbishment of the Bessemer Building at Imperial College’s South Kensington Campus was shortlisted for a RIBA regional award. The building houses the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, a nanotechnology suite and a bio-incubator facility, providing London with a much needed wet laboratory facility for biotech ‘start-up’ companies.

InQbate at the University of Sussex combines flexible spatial design with embedded multimedia technologies to allow a wealth of learning possibilities. The space can be partitioned, sub-divided and reconfigured in a multiplicity of ways to meet a wide range of educational and performance requirements. It seeks to revolutionise teaching and learning by blurring the boundaries between disciplines, between formal and informal learning, and between learning and creative practice.

One of the key drivers for the large-scale redevelopment of the western edge of the City of Manchester (Quayside) was the need to consolidate and improve ITV’s studio and administration functions, which are currently dispersed over a large site. A site at the south-western end of the masterplan was identified for the proposed headquarters, studios and administration functions

During the Second World War, a certain amount of research was conducted in Britain that led to new systems of prefabrication. Some houses incorporating prefabrication had been built by 1945.

Previously situated on land allocated for the 2012 Olympic Games, the KICC Church is relocating to Beam Reach, a 4ha brownfield site identified by the London Development Agency for redevelopment. The new Sheppard Robson design will provide 5,000 followers with worship space, including an 8,000-seat main church, 1,000-seat youth church, 500-seat Chapel, 6,000m² offices and 1,200 space car park, all focused around a newly created public square.  

The Sheppard Robson redevelopment of King Street will create a new civic and community heart for Hammersmith. The design is based on a series of high quality urban spaces: a square, a street, a footbridge and a park - which will create a new piece of the city that will deliver, through sustainable development, a well connected public realm that will generate long-term social, economic and environmental benefits.

King's College Hospital is at the forefront of promoting day surgery, achieving 71% of all elective surgery as day cases. Clinicians wanted to improve this position, pushing the boundaries of care, with an increasing number of procedures being carried out as day surgery (a national target of 75% was set, and KCH believes 80% or more is achievable locally). Sheppard Robson was appointed to provide a solution to increase capacity.

Sheppard Robson is designing the new £6.5 million facility at Lancaster University. The building will house major new performance spaces for the Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA) and the institutes research and postgraduate centres – comprising multifunctional areas for creative arts including music, drama, design and fine art alongside an interdisciplinary creative workshop facility. It will also be home to Imagination at Lancaster, an exploratory design research lab.

The new headquarters for global information solutions company, Experian UK, provides state-of-the-art office accommodation for over 750 people in a prominent Nottingham location.

Sheppard Robson was commissioned to design facilities for the Bournemouth & Poole College’s Lansdowne Campus. The design included site masterplanning, the new build College design and the refurbishment of three Grade II listed buildings. The site sits within a Conservation Area, has numerous Tree Preservation Orders and is bound by main roads on three sides.

The Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies is a major new facility for the University of Cambridge. The Centre provides resources for biological anthropological research and archaeological research into human evolution and variety. The Centre also houses the unique Duckworth Collection of non-human primates and human skeletal remains – the fourth largest in the world.

Sheppard Robson, as part of the SixtyK consortium, was selected as preferred bidder for Coxheath, a 3.9ha site formerly known as Linton Hospital, as part of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Design for Manufacture competition - the second win in the competition for SixtyK.

Sheppard Robson is working with Kier Education on a One School Pathfinder to provide a bespoke tailored design for a school providing an innovative new way of learning.

The new Litherland High School embodies the vision of the staff and students into an innovative learning environment, a radical departure from the traditional institutional school typology. 

The London Borough of Newham is undergoing a major transformation, involving the relocation of Council offices from 50 buildings, ranging from town halls to portakabins, into one central space. Newham has further challenged itself to use its office space more effectively, requiring teams to share facilities, with a ratio of 2,500 people calling 1,780 work positions home. The objective to operate in a more collaborative working environment has led ID:SR to create a variety of work settings and develop a ‘neighbourhood’ concept.

Sheppard Robson won an international design competition to develop world-class facilities for the London Business School within their main campus at Sussex Place. The winning submission proposed to develop the space between the two existing buildings (the Grade I listed John Nash terrace that fronts onto Regent’s Park and the Plowden building on Park Road) to create one School.

The London Development Agency (LDA) worked with ID:SR to locate and design the interior of its new central London workspace. The key objective for the new location was to create an office environment which reflected the LDA’s vision as a responsive, inclusive and ambitious organisation, committed to London’s economic growth. The Palestra was selected – a new landmark building in the Borough of Southwark

Sheppard Robson was appointed in 1957 to prepare an overall plan for the university's expansion. The existing buildings were scattered over the site with other accommodation dispersed throughout the town.

Lowther Castle and Gardens lies at the heart of the Cumbria region. Over the past 50 years, the Grade II listed Castle has fallen into ruin. The Sheppard Robson transformational project of the site engages local people with leading experts, to restore 500 acres of historic parkland. The project includes complete conservation of the castle ruins, restoration of the gardens and the building of contemporary cultural, creative and educational facilities

Sheppard Robson was appointed to design the University of Leeds’ new city centre student accommodation to planning approval. The project will see the existing Mary Ogilvie student residential complex redesigned, enabling more students to live in the city centre, and relieving pressure on the over populated Headingley campus.

The University of Bristol’s Mathematics Department is currently spread over nine disparate buildings. Sheppard Robson’s winning design brings together these departments in a single iconic building that complements the University’s vision of creating a world-class mathematics facility which will attract a rapidly growing number of international academics and students.

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ID:SR has won a bid to design and deliver a new space for Digital Audio Broadcasting Radio Services, for a major broadcaster. The broadcaster will be generating three audio services which will be produced and broadcast from these studios. The building will include radio studio facilities and a channel-wide hang-out space.

MediaCityUK is an innovative, creative hub, on a site surrounded by water. At its heart is a triangle of iconic buildings - The Lowry, Imperial War Museum and a new media complex, home to the BBC. Plot B4 is at the heart of the development, with a waterfront outlook, next to the BBC buildings. It comprises retail space to the public piazza and over 18 storeys of office space.

The new Medical Sciences Teaching Centre (MSTC) accommodates the Pre Clinical School of the Division of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The 3,000m² centre provides medical teaching laboratories, seminar rooms, offices, a computer suite, 225-seat lecture theatre and workshops - a progressive change in research design, breaking down departmental boundaries and encouraging a common approach to teaching by sharing laboratory space.

One Mitre Square is an impressive 19-storey high quality office building  located in the City of London. The building form responds to the tight planning constraints of the area and the adjacent urban fabric, which contains a mix of uses including a school, offices, and residential buildings.

Sheppard Robson is working as part of a joint venture consortium to deliver the MoD’s consolidation of MoD land within London - Project MoDEL. RAF Uxbridge, the largest of the project MoDEL sites at 44.4ha, has been proposed as a new development adjacent to Uxbridge town centre, and incorporates a mixture of uses led by a high density residential development above commercial and office spaces.

RAF West Ruislip is a vacant brownfield site located immediately north of Ickenham town centre in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Sheppard Robson’s redevelopment proposal includes a large area of previously developed land. This land has created an opportunity to for a new, distinctive, high-quality and sustainable neighbourhood extension of West Ruislip, with the aim of generating a sense of community and local identity in the area.

In 1997 Motorola selected Sheppard Robson to prepare a development masterplan for a 27-hectare greenfield site on the western ring road, Swindon. The masterplan proposal was designed to create an initial phase of 54,000m² and to allow for a phased expansion of both the office and manufacturing facility to an ultimate development of 95,000m². The design concept was developed to  enable  expansion with minimal disruption.

Penrith car park, design by Sheppard Robson for Lowther Manelli, is an engaging, sensitive and sculptural architectural form inspired by and intrinsic to its surroundings. It challenges long conceived ideas about the form of car parks.

Sheppard Robson designed the first major research centre providing laboratories and research support facilities for the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC). As a World Health Organisation laboratory, this Institute has an international role to produce and distribute worldwide standards for biological substances. This is an essential resource for medical research, for national regulatory authorities and for the global pharmaceutical industry

Design proposal for the refurbishment of the New Bodleian Library. Shepley Bulfinch/Sheppard Robson proposed to work in collaboration with Oxford University to design and implement the realisation of a new centre for scholarship, transforming and revitalising the New Bodleian from a primarily collection storage facility to a twenty-first century library focused on the interaction of scholars with the treasured materials stored within.

The new Medical Sciences Teaching Centre (MSTC) accommodates the Pre Clinical School of the Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. The 3,000m² Centre provides medical teaching laboratories, seminar rooms, offices, a 225-seat lecture theatre and workshops and is a step change in teaching design, breaking down departmental boundaries and encouraging a common approach to teaching by sharing laboratory space.

Sheppard Robson is working with NHS Fife to develop a strategy to reshape its General Hospitals and Maternity Services. The Victoria Hospital site in Kirkcaldy is at the heart of the reshaping exercise and will absorb and expand the transfer of facilities from Forth Park Hospital. Sheppard Robson has designed a new acute services building to provide state of the art healthcare.

No. 1 Old Jewry is a mixed-use development within the City of London consisting of 6,000m² office accommodation over eight storeys, with 1,020m² retail space at ground and basement levels. The site is located in the Bank Conservation Area and has three frontages: Old Jewry to the west, Poultry to the south and Grocers’ Hall Court to the east.

Phases 2 and 3 of the Sheppard Robson designed redevelopment of Arup’s headquarters replace two 1960s buildings to provide the international engineering practice with five levels of offices and associated meeting rooms, reception, café, library, conference and exhibition space. This works to supplement Phase 1, also by Sheppard Robson, completed in 2003.

Sheppard Robson is leading a multi-disciplinary team to develop a strategic masterplan for Northampton General Hospital, located close to Northampton town centre. The study has been broken down into two key stages. The first stage forms a comprehensive development appraisal of a 3.5ha site at the west of the site that has been earmarked for disposal. The second stage develops a robust masterplan for the 12ha hospital site,

The new Sheppard Robson designed £40 million Hadfield Wing is the latest addition to Northern General Hospital campus - opened in 2006. The building was designed to provide state-of-the-art National Health Service care. The Hadfield Wing contains 168 beds, half of which are in single rooms with en suite facilities; providing comfort and privacy for patients. Special rehabilitation rooms with kitchen facilities are provided, where patients overcoming a disability can regain confidence before being discharged.

With an Armani flagship store on its ground floor, a restaurant and bar in the basement and three floors of high quality office space, including a roof terrace, Number One The Avenue is an important contribution to the urban fabric of Manchester. It represents the aspirations of the Spinningfields development - bold, modern and innovative

Planning approval was recently received for the Sheppard Robson designed Oasis Academy in Coulsdon, Croydon. The new Academy for 1,150 pupils, including 250 sixth form students, will be redeveloped within an existing school with approximately 60% of the development being new build and 40% refurbishment.

ID:SR worked with Standard Chartered Bank to relocate its London operations from four separate buildings, integrating staff into a new single premises at One Basinghall Avenue in the City of London. The building is approximately 200,000ft² and consists of basement, lower ground floor, ground floor and nine upper office floors. Contemporary business functions are located throughout the building, including a restaurant, auditorium, trading floor, reception and an executive level.

Home to Apple’s flagship European store, this development is part of the Crown Estate’s long-term vision for Regent Street, delivering quality to residents, shoppers and businesses alike. The development is situated across two conservation areas within the City of Westminster. Its Grade II listed façades and prominent cupola have been retained, together with part of the return elevations to both Hanover and Princes Streets.

One Kingdom Street is the first building in Phase 2 of the PaddingtonCentral development, sandwiched between the mainline railway, the Westway, two heavily trafficked bridges and the Grand Union Canal. The development comprises office, residential, retail, leisure and hotel accommodation and occupies the old railway goods yard, formerly brownfield land. The 32,500m² GIA speculative office building was developed by Development Securities and jointly funded by Morley Fund Management and Union Investment Real Estate AG.

The design of this 11,000m² office and retail development in the Bloomsbury Conservation Area will provide five floors of homogeneous modern office space behind both new and retained façades.

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In 2007, Overbury, one of the leading office fit companies in the UK, had grown into a £20 million plus turnover business and needed new space to accommodate not only their expanding team but one which would directly reflect their aspirations and values within the industry.  ID:SR worked together with Overbury to find a ‘best fit’ prior to the final selection of the ninth floor of The Zenith Building in Manchester.
 

The Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism was commissioned by Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Oxford with major sponsorship from the Danish pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk. The £8.2m, 5,300m2   building is a landmark structure on the Churchill Hospital Campus at Headington, Oxford.

P3 is a 1,300m² multi-media arts environment designed to showcase exhibition and performance. Developed from a vast, former 1960s concrete testing facility for the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering, the structure’s dramatic and impressive scale provided Sheppard Robson with a plethora of creative redevelopment possibilities

The Perse Prep School is located on a 2.3 hectare site to the south of Cambridge city centre.

To implement the School’s expansion programme, Sheppard Robson have designed a new classroom block as part of a phased development strategy, comprising six classrooms, a library and dedicated art and technology facilities

The Perse Upper School is located on an 11.5 hectare site to the south-west of Cambridge city centre.  

To implement the School’s expansion programme Sheppard Robson have designed a new teaching block as part of a phased development strategy, comprising subject based classrooms, a library and ICT suite.

ID:SR’s team of designers crossed the Irish Sea to fit-out 1 Grand Canal Plaza; a seven-storey 4,645m² commercial building in a prime central Dublin location, home of Pfizer's European Accounting Division. The project includes a restaurant, delicatessen, vending, resource library and a variety of workspaces.

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Located in an Area of Outstanding Beauty, the design is sensitive to its setting, whilst providing a building which clearly reflects the ambitions of Pfizer. A three-storey building with office ‘fingers’ radiating from a central hub, known as the ‘street’, the related working environment has been flexibly designed creating a deli bar, touchdown areas, informal and formal meeting areas and a mix of open plan and cellular office spaces. 

Sheppard Robson designed the UK headquarters for Pfizer, a leading pharmaceutical company, working closely with them to prepare a detailed brief prior to design. ID:SR was brought in to create an environment which has positively changed the culture and way of working for the company.

The development of Portman House provides new offices, reception hall and glazed lifts, over retained retail units on London’s Oxford Street.  The first floor was also approved for retail use

“We want you to design a building that thinks like Google.” Project FunLab is an inspired response to an inspired brief.  Sheppard Robson’s analysis concluded that such a building would need to combine virtual and physical creative space and actively promote participation and engagement. These programmatic requirements led us to propose a factory or laboratory setting in which the creative process and resultant creative product can be showcased.

Since 2003, The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been systematically creating high quality working environments for all personnel across a wide variety of central city locations throughout the UK.

ID:SR was appointed by RBS to help select and shape the CAT A enhancements to the building and complete the fit out of non-customer facing facilities at 7, 8 and 10 Brindleyplace, Birmingham to accommodate 2,870 workstations within 23,225m² of office space.

International insurance firm QBE, located in the City of London, envisaged a versatile new reception space to rejuvenate employees and clients stepping off the busy City streets. ID:SR was asked to create a vibrant focal point – a modern, multi-functional space capable of transforming the one-dimensional office arrival experience into a stimulating, real destination.

The Chemistry research facility at the University of London houses 350 staff. Designed to foster interaction, the new facilities include wet laboratories to support areas, offices and shared write-up space.

The completed building provides the University with an important contribution to the urbanscape of the campus. The external landscape is being completed as part of a phased strategy for updating all the external works to this part of the campus.

Regent’s Place is a 10 acre office-led, mixed-use regenerative development in central London. Sheppard Robson undertook initial masterplan studies in 1985 and continues to work on the project today. Central to the success of the project is the public realm, retail and public art strategy in creating a new quarter.

Renny Lodge is on the outskirts of Newport Pagnell village near the River Ouse. The SixtyK masterplan proposes a range of 68 houses and apartments (1, 2, 3 and 4 bed units), the creation of a ‘village green’ absorbing an existing playground and extensive landscaping designed to define and enrich the public realm.

Rowan Road was the largest of the ten sites to be part of the Design for Manufacture competition, and the third to be won by the SixtyK consortium led by Sheppard Robson. The proposed scheme includes 217 new homes, a new medical surgery for ten doctors, and a dental surgery and community hall.

Rowan Road was the largest of the ten sites to be part of the Design for Manufacture competition, and the third to be won by the SixtyK consortium led by Sheppard Robson. The proposed Rowan Road scheme includes 217 new homes, consisting of new build houses and flats, and the refurbishment of the locally listed school into flats. A new doctor’s surgery and community hall to serve the new and existing residents has also been proposed.

The Rowan site residential project was the third site won by the SixtyK consortium in the Governments Design for Manufacture competition, with Sheppard Robson as lead consultant producing the masterplan and architectural design for the site. The project is on the site of the former Rowan Road High School.

The Salvation Army owned 99-101 Queen Victoria Street. Evaluation of their requirements found that they no longer needed the whole building, and redevelopment released over 8,000m² of lettable office space, effectively providing a new building at no cost to the Army. The new development was designed by Sheppard Robson as two independent buildings with their own servicing entrances - one the Salvation Army headquarters, the other speculative offices. Whilst the two parts are separate, a consistent approach was maintained to the elevational treatment of the larger whole.

One of ID:SR’s key design objectives for Canal Ship House was to utilise the magnificent character of these historically important existing buildings as a starting point for the refurbishment. Through understanding the design of the original buildings and the elements that made them so effective in their day, the design team aimed to undertake a sensitive yet thoroughly contemporary refurbishment in order to re-establish this building as a high-quality office that embraces the commercial expectations of the 21st century.

The new 14,788 m² Sidney Stringer Academy in Coventry will provide accommodation for 1050 11-16 year old students and 300 post-16 year old students.

Sheppard Robson was appointed to prepare an Urban Design Strategy for the first of a planned series of new towns for location within the Shanghai district. With four universities and the premier Shanghai teaching hospital, Songjiang will act as a major educational, commercial and recreational centre for Shanghai. The town has a planned population of 500,000 and will be accessible from the centre of Shanghai by a mass transit route.

In considering the masterplan strategy for the mixed-use regeneration scheme at Spinningfields in Manchester, Sheppard Robson looked beyond the client’s pragmatic concerns and brief to identify opportunities for urban intervention and transformational architectural concepts. Spinningfields Square was identified as one of the most important public spaces, terminating the axis from Albert Square, adjacent to Deansgate (a primary thoroughfare through Manchester city centre) and neighbouring the Grade I listed Rylands Library

The masterplan for SportCity was driven by the aspirations of the communities and individuals it will serve. Sheppard Robson’s aim is to create a development that inspires participation and integrates physically, economically and socially with the locality. SportCity is about more than sport, leisure and entertainment. It will be a physical embodiment of Manchester’s social aspirations and will be a driving force of economic change in the area.

Sheppard Robson has won a contract to design the £20 million St Ambrose Voluntary Aided College in Hale Barns, Trafford with Balfour Beatty. The project is being funded by the government’s National Academies Framework Part 1.

The £35m Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Strathclyde is the first major project on the Campus Development plan, bringing together the existing departments of the faculty; the Schools of Applied Physiology, Bioscience, Immunology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Physiology and Pharmacology to create the Institute. Located on Cathedral Street in Glasgow, the 8,000m2 Institute is the gateway to the University and city centre

Sheppard Robson has designed the new educational buildings at Stockwell Park High School, a secondary school in the London Borough of Lambeth. The area is one of the most deprived boroughs in London. The School’s redevelopment will act as a catalyst for improved education and academic achievement. The proposed building weaves around the existing mature trees, providing a fluid form, responding directly to its setting and embracing internal open spaces

Suffolk College was the first major project in the education quarter of Ipswich, a regeneration area east of the town centre. The Sheppard Robson designed 20,300m² further education facility is an ‘open campus’, accessible by the public but safe and secure for the students. Its form is defined by its urban location; providing visual links to the town centre, the station and the waterfront.

The principle of the Swanhunter project was to give more length to the Shipbuilding berths and to obtain sufficient space at the head of these berths to allow a free lateral movement of the large components which are made in new frame sheds. Moreover the yard was extremely congested with old buildings which made movement of both men and materials difficult.

Taylor Wessing is a law firm employing over 750 lawyers throughout Europe. The actual and expected growth of the London office called for new space to attract and retain the best staff.

The result was the selection of 5 New Street Square, City of London. Taylor Wessing signed up to take 8 floors of the building and challenged ID:SR to convey their 'people first' philosophy in the interior design.

The new 17,000m² Sheppard Robson designed Alan Turing Building at the University of Manchester has brought three schools of learning together, not previously taught in the same building; mathematics, photon science and astronomy. The Building’s frontage enlivens the streetscape through the extensive use of glazing. Central to the design are three sliding ‘fingers’ which horizontally ‘push and pull’ to create dynamic cantilevered projections, articulating the elevations.

Sheppard Robson was appointed by PMB Holdings for this major town centre project in 2000. Following detailed discussions with Reading Borough Council, town planning consent was granted for a mixed use development incorporating a high rise office building, affordable residential units and a restaurant in 2001. A further consent was granted in November 2004 and demolition/site clearance of the site began the following year. Following an agreement between PMB Holdings and Aviva Investments to develop the site, construction began in 2007. The 13-storey office building is already a landmark on the Reading skyline and was completed in Spring 2009.

The Byre is a series of C19th cow sheds attached to the farmhouse set in the former market garden of Oakhill College. The agricultural buildings were converted into student residential accommodation in the 1980s. Sheppard Robson was appointed in 2005 to design new student residential accommodation to replace the existing buildings attached to the farmhouse. This included houses for students with family and a small community centre with crèche facilities.

The recently completed redevelopment of the Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases (CTID), for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), is the UK’s leading specialist research centre for microbial diseases. North-facing on Pembroke Place, the new facility provides 7,000m² of laboratory, write-up and office space, set over four floors. The development brings back a significant area of brownfield land into productive use.

The Club Lounge is ID:SR’s concept design for an exclusive client with an expanding worldwide entertainment portfolio. With a highly successful existing media, restaurant, gallery and bar premises in London, the Club Lounge will now be developed in Berlin – the edgy, contemporary, culture capital of Europe. Berlin is a city of underground nightlife, radical artistic expression, living and breathing its dynamic transformation after the post-Soviet era unification.

The Greenhouse is a prototype for a zero-carbon office designed to bring together eight NGO groups, each with an environmental agenda, into one building.

The Lighthouse is the UK’s first net zero-carbon house that also meets Level 6 (the highest level) of the Code for Sustainable Homes – the standard to which all new homes must be constructed by 2016. It is designed to provide a way of living that encourages lifestyles which are inherently ‘light’ on the world’s resources, balancing the practical requirements of homeowners with a response to the predicted UK climate change

Named in honour of the Nobel Prize winning biochemist, who received his doctorate from the University of Manchester, the Michael Smith Building provides scientists and academics with an ideal environment for furthering knowledge in areas of cell biology, including cancer research, tissue regeneration and healing.

The Micro Brewery is part of a larger scheme to develop a new city quarter within Bristol city centre. The site, once owned by Courage Breweries, is being developed by HDG Mansur and Sheppard Robson in to a mixed-use development of retail, residential and commercial buildings. New apartments will coexist with Grade II listed buildings and original façades to invigorate the harbour front in what was once a derelict area.

The Sheppard Robson design for the first Academy to be built in Norfolk was chosen through a competitive bid process on the Academies Framework. The new 9,000m² development will replace the existing 1960s school with a building that has been designed to meet the Academy’s vision of a ‘vibrant, attractive and stimulating learning environment’ that compliments its ‘open’ community.

As part of a development framework for Leeds Metropolitan University, Sheppard Robson has designed the ‘Rose Bowl’ – a new business school for the University on a site adjacent to the Grade II listed Civic Hall and Millennium Square. The 12,000m² scheme comprises teaching spaces, lecture theatres, offices, a restaurant and retail outlets and is located on an existing car park.

The Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine, for the University of Edinburgh, will provide a unique environment, developing new treatments for human diseases affecting the nervous system, liver and other organs. It will be the first large-scale purpose-built facility of its kind in the UK.

The Sheppard Robson designed Small Animal Teaching Hospital in Liverpool provides a modern veterinary teaching and referral hospital on a greenbelt site, adjacent to the faculty’s equine and farm animal hospitals. The concept employs sustainable solutions to blend with the local environment and provide a focus to the otherwise architecturally disparate site. The building, one of the most advanced animal veterinary facilities in the UK, received a 2008 RIBA award.

Trocadero lies at the fulcrum of four major central London streets, Haymarket, Piccadilly, Regent Street and Coventry Street, and is a major West End site in need of redevelopment. Sheppard Robson has developed proposals to revitalise the Trocadero, a building with four Grade II listed façades, through a reorganisation of its vacant space. The project will be ready to showcase at the 2012 London Olympics.

The Trocadero lies at the fulcrum of four major London streets. It is a major West End site in need of redevelopment. The key drivers of the Sheppard Robson redevelopment proposal was to revitalise the Trocadero, making it commercially viable and to remove the anti-social atmosphere and reinstate it as a family destination. To meet these aspirations a comprehensive reorganisation of the vacant space has been proposed.

The Vincent Building of Cranfield University forms part of a campus reconciliation process, comprising a number of projects. The Building is the conversion of the north-east corner of the existing hanger, previously used as the University Sports Hall, together with a new building, separated from the hanger by an atrium, to provide new teaching facilities including primary and secondary laboratories and office accommodation for the University.

The Sheppard Robson design of Toyota (GB) Plc’s headquarters, which was won as part of a RIBA competition, creates an environment which reflects the ambitions and culture of the company and responds to its greenbelt environment and proximity to a Grade I listed building. The building has won a number of awards, including a BCO Special Commendation.

The new Life Sciences building for the University of Reading houses teaching and learning space, as well as research space for the Schools of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Food Biosciences and Pharmacy. The Sheppard Robson designed building is within the existing science area.

The brief for the new Southlands facility was to create a sense of place; an environment to stimulate the teaching process, learning and social interaction and a vibrant community for the students.

The design drew on these objectives by using the familiar, historical, collegiate precedents where the academic, residential, social and religious accommodation are grouped around a central focus.

Sheppard Robson designed a transformational scheme in response to a challenging brief for a new school within the footprint of a fully operational one, without provision for temporary accommodation. The project was delivered as a ‘One School Pathfinder’ through the BS F programme for Wokingham Borough Council. The new College will become a landmark, clearly integrated into the community whilst modern enough to reflect the forward-looking ethos of the school.

The Sheppard Robson designed redevelopment of York House will result in a glistening, crystalline 18-storey landmark office building adjacent to Waterloo Station. The 32,000m² steel and glass structure will comprise basement, lower ground, ground, and 15 upper floors with fully flexible floorplates of approximately 2,100m². The pre-eminent feature of the design is a 1,000m² roof terrace offering panoramic views of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament.

The relocation of Whitelands College, housing the schools of Life Sciences, Sport Sciences, Psychology and Therapeutic Studies, is the final element of Sheppard Robson’s masterplan for Roehampton University. The new 14 acre site is designed around an existing 18th century Grade I listed building, Parkstead House, which has been vacant for the past decade.

This is an ambitious Sheppard Robson project to rejuvenate the heart of Woolwich Town centre. The masterplan proposes a new council office, nearly 1,000 apartments and new retail at ground floor - the anchor store being a new Tesco. This will be the first supermarket in the town centre for over 30 years.