A UK Investment Bank launching with a new, partnership-based business model after an MBO from a Dutch bank, effectively making it a modern business with a traditional twist, moving into their first 22,000 sq ft office space.

The brief, with a hospitality aspect as well as a traditional workplace remit, was to incorporate a suite of both meeting and fine dining spaces, supplied by a full catering kitchen, as well as further flexible meeting rooms, a more traditional trading floor and quieter areas for research.

As this was both a new company and a multi-headed client body, with almost all employees also shareholders, a number of initial workshops were needed to help define the company as an outward-facing entity, in order to arrive at the right look and feel for the scheme and to achieve the correct modern/traditional balance.