Wood Street
Refurbishment and interior styling to a Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners sky-scraper, in the City of London.
With an extensive living wall as a backdrop, biophilia and natural materials were at the centre of this design solution: a high-impact, light-touch refurbishment. The brief included works to several office floors, new end-of-trip facilities, enhanced cycle parking, and the refurbishment of the entrance and reception. A mix of bespoke and high-street FF+E solutions were selected to inspire calm and collaboration.
Project: Completed at Morrow + Lorraine
Photography credit: Simon Maxwell
Timber, steel, and timber-terrazzo coffee bar created with bar, seating, integrated lighting, and suspended planters
Timber, steel, and timber-terrazzo reception desk, and building signage integrated into living wall
Integrated planters, up-lighting, and Foresso timber-terrazzo furniture combine to create a flexible amenity area
Enhancing the existing profiled structural soffits of the existing building, with hi-tech-inspired, semi-exposed services
Cool and clean, stainless steel and terrazzo WCs
Furniture to the reception, retail and amenity spaces were selected to provide a calm and warming aesthetic
Foresso timber-terrazzo furniture is the focal point of the new amenity area
Customised Benchmark furniture is included within amenity area to provide break-out / meeting spaces
Timber-terrazzo furniture is at the heart of a new amenity space provided within the reception
Bespoke joinery banquette seating to rear of coffee bar
The 80m2 living wall, which contains around 8,000 plants in a chemical-free organic substrate, extracts approximately 100kg of carbon per year and produces approximately 140kg of oxygen
High quality materials were added to the existing building, including FF+E dressings
Pot plants, planters and a living wall provide a biophilic environment, at a variety of scales
The furniture selection provides flexible environments for socialising or working
Warm, tactile surface of the Foresso timber-terrazzo furniture
The amenity area, viewed from the existing bridge above
The furniture selection provides flexible environments for socialising or working
Large furniture items provide a flexible, collaborative working environment
Semi-exposed services contrasting with the existing soffit