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