Foxley Kingham

Workplace

⥤ Overview

Accountancy and business advisory firm Foxley Kingham celebrated its 50th year in business in 2019. At the same time, the company decided it had outgrown its central Luton premises, owned on freehold for 25 years, and it was the right time to move in order to provide for future growth and embrace the next 50 years of business success. The new premises needed to incorporate better facilities, offer room for expansion and provide increased car-parking spaces for staff.

⥤ Brief

In addition to offering multi-industry accountancy services, Foxley Kingham had also developed several specialist arms over the years. The design brief was to balance the company’s discreet, understated, confidential and to some degree segmented way of working with a new contemporary, pared-back and elegant materiality. 

⥤ Challenges

Space-planning was a major focus of the redesign, ensuring future in-built flexibility not only for potential growth, but to incorporate archive storage space, as the traditionally paper-heavy company continues its migration towards reduced use of paper. The main spatial challenge was that the building was fairly long and narrow, so that our scheme included a variety of sightlines and the removal of some pre-existing divisions.