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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
 

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.