Located on a prominent corner site within the Chancery Lane Conservation Area, the scheme has been designed to respect adjacent listed buildings and to acknowledge surrounding scale, materiality and key views. The scheme replaces a series of 1950/60s buildings on Chancery Lane and Cursitor Street with linked blocks separated by service cores. This strategy allows each block to extend to an appropriate height commensurate with the scale of the street which it addresses. The existing building at No 20-21 Tooks Court has been incorporated into the design, separated from the new construction by a slender atrium. Travertine marble, chosen for its empathy with Portland stone, is used for the highly modelled main facades of the new blocks. In addition to providing high quality, flexible office space, the Category A design sets very challenging targets for sustainability and includes innovative passive plasterboard chilled ceilings, exposed thermal mass and opening windows
Image Details: | |
Image File: | ACNH-0230-0021 |
Caption: | Exterior facades viewed from below. Chancery Lane, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Bennetts Associates Architects, 2015. |
Property Release: | No |
Model Release: | N/A |
Dimensions in PX: | 4864 x 3449 pixels |
Date of Photograph: | 23/05/2014 |
Restriction: | No Restriction |
Credit: | Hufton and Crow/VIEW |
Building Details: | |
View Project Number: | 61305 |
Building Name: | Chancery Lane |
Headline: | Chancery Lane, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Bennetts Associates Architects, 2015. |
City: | London |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Architect: | Bennetts Associates Architects |
Architect Website: | www.bennettsassociates.com |
Category: | Corporate And Commercial |
Building Type: | Office |
Year of Completion: | 2015 |
Collection: | VIEW Architecture |
Public Notes: | Located on a prominent corner site within the Chancery Lane Conservation Area, the scheme has been designed to respect adjacent listed buildings and to acknowledge surrounding scale, materiality and key views. The scheme replaces a series of 1950/60s buildings on Chancery Lane and Cursitor Street with linked blocks separated by service cores. This strategy allows each block to extend to an appropriate height commensurate with the scale of the street which it addresses. The existing building at No 20-21 Tooks Court has been incorporated into the design, separated from the new construction by a slender atrium. Travertine marble, chosen for its empathy with Portland stone, is used for the highly modelled main facades of the new blocks. In addition to providing high quality, flexible office space, the Category A design sets very challenging targets for sustainability and includes innovative passive plasterboard chilled ceilings, exposed thermal mass and opening windows |
Keywords: | Chancery Lane; architecture; corporate; commercial ; Office Building; Europe; United Kingdom; London; WC1; 2015; 21st Century; Bennetts Associates Architects; Nobody; Full Frame; view from below; day; exterior; mixed use; retail; exterior facade; juxtaposition; old and new; contrast; travertine cladding; brickwork; red brick; clear sky; cloud; sunlit; reflection |
Orientation: | H |
Type: | Office |
B/W or Colour: | Colour |
Number of People: | Nobody |
Technique: | Full Frame |
People Incidental: | N/A |
Point of View: | View from below |
Time of Day: | Day |
Interior or Exterior: | Exterior |
Photographer: | Hufton+Crow |
Source File Name: | ACNH-0230-0021.jpg |
Copyright Info URL: | www.viewpictures.co.uk |