🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 16 Old Bailey

Grade II listed green

Imposing and historically important, evoking the grand buildings of Paris. Sensitively redeveloped to meet demands of today’s occupants.

📍Location

London, EC4

🏢Building Details

• 115,000 sq. ft. across 10 floors

• Completed Feb 2021, refurbishment, extension + re-positioning of historic listed building

• 2 interconnected elements = listed façade (1912) + larger western extension (1999)

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Jonathan Fletcher – CEO of Endurance Land

• Henry MacInnes – Director at Endurance Land

• Knight Harwood

✍️Architects & Engineers

• John McRae – Director at Orms

• Christian Natterodt – Associate at Orms

• Andy Heyne – Owner & Director Heyne Tillett Steel

• Chris Doyle – Director at GDM Partnership

• Jennifer (Nagel) Berry – Senior Landscape Architect at Robert Myers Associates

• Alasdair Gurry – Commercial Real Estate Advisor at Avison Young UK

• Ashley Bateson – Partner, Head of Sustainability at Hoare Lea

🌱Sustainability

• BREEAM Excellent + EPC A + WiredScore Platinum

• Extensive structural + façade retention = significant reduction in embodied carbon

• Retained 92% of original structure + 74% of existing double-glazed unitised cladding

• Space optimisation: separate office wings unified into simple floor plate (relocating lift + stair core), increasing usable floor area by 23,000 sq. ft. across 2 new floors – infilling redundant atrium

🥦 Wellbeing

• Sense of light + spaciousness – double height reception elegantly transformed to reflect Edwardian baroque façade

• Informal meeting spaces with oak joinery + soft seating reminiscent of hotel lobby, welcoming visitors and creating calm

• 4 landscaped outdoor terraces with unobstructed, panoramic views – toward Old Bailey High Court and the City

• Enviable location within the Square Mile, 5 min walk to St. Paul’s Cathedral

🎈Bonus feature

The Grade II listed Britannia House was originally built in 1912 for the Chatham & Dover Railway Company, alongside an open railway track and Holborn Viaduct station. It functioned as offices and parcel depot with vehicular movement throughout the ground floor. Proof: contemporary can be timeless.

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