HFBT

25 SHELTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON

Our brief was to make a dramatic architectural intervention into
  Covent Garden to attract office tenants from the media and
  telecommunication sectors. The response to the surrounding
  historic warehouses was for a dramatic, highly engineered, double
  skin, glass and steel design using intelligent glass façade technology
  that was also a passive heat source and air extract motor. This
  provided the opportunity to develop a rich architectural vocabulary,
  with sound functional purpose, in order to respond in a
  contemporary way to the engineering character of the surrounding
  historic fabric. The design was well received but despite the
  existing building being badly fire damaged local interest groups
  vetoed the removal of the remaining building fabric. Planning
  consent was achieved for a radical refurbishment of the existing
  building as offices with the sensitive integration of some of the
  remaining cast iron structure at the lower levels. Currently a further
  planning consent is being sought to change the use of the building
  to high quality loft apartments on the upper floors and a restaurant
  below. The evolution of this development has demanded:
  .	Radical and relevant modern architecture
  .	Sensitive refurbishment
  .	Integration of current market demands into historic
                townscape and building fabric
  .	Planning and local interest negotiations

Shelton Street
25 SHELTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON Our brief was to make a dramatic architectural intervention into Covent Garden to attract office tenants from the media and telecommunication sectors. The response to the surrounding historic warehouses was for a dramatic, highly engineered, double skin, glass and steel design using intelligent glass façade technology that was also a passive heat source and air extract motor. This provided the opportunity to develop a rich architectural vocabulary, with sound functional purpose, in order to respond in a contemporary way to the engineering character of the surrounding historic fabric. The design was well received but despite the existing building being badly fire damaged local interest groups vetoed the removal of the remaining building fabric. Planning consent was achieved for a radical refurbishment of the existing building as offices with the sensitive integration of some of the remaining cast iron structure at the lower levels. Currently a further planning consent is being sought to change the use of the building to high quality loft apartments on the upper floors and a restaurant below. The evolution of this development has demanded: . Radical and relevant modern architecture . Sensitive refurbishment . Integration of current market demands into historic townscape and building fabric . Planning and local interest negotiations
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