Our greatest challenges are working with English Heritage on modifications to the Grade II-listed Victorian cottages and creating mixed use entertainment venues out of existing Network Rail shell spaces.
The brief includes providing new spaces for mixed food offerings within the arches; creating additional lettable space for the developer through new mezzanines, plus a courtyard toilet block extension and incorporating new pedestrian spaces as part of the Better Bankside low-line project.
A feasibility study on a prime west end site, looking to see what would happen and what the potential retail and office space options might be if a major incumbent retailer didn’t renew its lease on its existing, huge-scale retail unit.
The landlord/QS client team wanted to explore in particular how the five-storey site, measuring almost 13,000 sq m in total, might break down into smaller retail units, with two new floors of office space above.
Although this was an exciting space to plan, with both front and rear access used, transforming loading bays into retail entrances to the rear for example, it involved a lot of challenging scenario-planning for both circulation and service cores, in order to provide a scheme that could serve such different potential end user configurations.
We worked with Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons) to create this bar and music venue within the wider Flat Iron Square development. The scheme includes 15,000 sqft of space in 3 interconnecting arches and a new build courtyard block with roof terrace
The music venue provides a 350 capacity space which has been acoustically isolated from the railway viaduct above. The brief was to create spaces which provide both the bands and guests with a premium experience normally associated with much larger venues.
We spent a long time with Ben testing different configurations of space to ensure the optimum flow was achieved between the various spaces. The archway geometry was particularly challenging when creating the mezzanine bar and dressing room spaces. The new build courtyard block has a glazed upper facade which overlooks The Shard
The Omeara Bar has an entrance off the newly opened Low Line public space which looks to open up the derelict areas in and around the viaduct linking Waterloo with London Bridge
Once the acoustic lining was completed, the space was handed over to legendary set designer Dick Bird who created this amazing distressed concert hall finish
The artist dressing rooms are located on a new mezzanine space with juliette balconies overlooking the main bar.
The two main arches are connected by a double height signal box which feature original street art by Nerone
Tabure is an 82-cover restaurant, offering modern Turkish cuisine and located just outside London in Berkhamsted. The offer is based on an open charcoal ‘Robata’ grill, with various booth, bench and bar seating areas and featuring an intricate design scheme with Mediterranean-influenced fretwork joinery and tiling, as well as eye-catching and dynamic feature lighting.
To evolve the first expression of the Tabure concept (located in nearby St Albans) and to refine, develop and make the concept more polished, whilst maximizing the number covers and creating a new-build area to the rear of the building to accommodate back-of-house activity.
Working with a very narrow footplate to draw customers’ eyes through the space.
