West End openings from Barr Gazetas

Article Abstract:

Architectural firm Barr Gazetas has made extensive use of natural materials in its fitting out of a head office in the West End of London, England, for construction contractor Overbury. The highly open, transparent building has a glazed facade and glass-partitioned meeting rooms visible from the street. On the top floor, the ceiling and floor are treated in such as way as to make a two/three-room area act as a single open volume. Barr Gazetas has also refitted a nearby building for advertising agency TBWA Simons Palmer. Here, cellular offices are arranged on each side of wide, irregular central streets.

Contracts, London, England, TBWA/Simons Palmer, Overbury, Barr Gazetas

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Coherent conversion

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Architects Trehearne and Norman have preserved the warehouse feeling in their conversion of Heal's department store's storage and workshop facility. The building now houses offices, with tenants mainly involved in media or design work. Elements which reflect the building's former use include galvanized metal sheeting on the front of the curved reception desk and plywood panel ceilings. The architects have also introduced an effective, but surprising, glazed stairway at the back of the reception area, in what was originally an open passageway.

Usage, Services, Architects, Warehouses, Trehearne and Norman Architects

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Being seen to be green

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The headquarters building designed for Sustrans in Bristol, England, by Hallett and Pollard aims to reflect the image of the organisation as a national promoter of sustainable transport. The focus on the building is a very large reception desk which beings with a crushed Mini Metro car and ends with an embryonic bicycle. There are many unusual approaches to interior fittings, with cedar lathe blinds, for example, being used as a visual partition behind the reception desk.

Sustrans

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