Journal

As we judder out of lockdown into a new gear, many individuals and employers are making decisions about how – and if – they should return to work.

But answers to this question don’t just reflect approaches to health and safety, economics or even the climate emergency. It’s an indicator of how employers think about equality.

Drawing on experience designing out-of-the-ordinary landscapes, joyful clinical environments for young people and offices for tech start-ups, we see this moment as an opportunity for companies to build new ecosystems of flexible, non-desk-based workspaces, designed to promote collaboration, good mental health and equal opportunities.

Projects Office is delighted to have been selected for the Southwark Council architectural services framework. We’ve been appointed to the commercial and industrial category, one of seven lots for new public sector projects across the borough. The framework is administered by procurement specialist LHC and is accessible to any contracting authority in London.

The Architects Journal has interviewed Megan about how the pandemic has affected the work she’s been doing with Public Practice and the London Borough of Newham. She discusses her work leading a strategic masterplan scoping project for Beckton and North Woolwich as well as a recent switch to helping the council distribute food parcels to isolated residents.

We’re delighted to have been selected to feature in the Architecture Foundation’s upcoming book, New Architects 4. This major new publication surveys the best British architectural practices established in the past ten years – we’re in good company.

Projects Office are delighted to be part of Dalston Architecture Collective – a network of architecture and design practices based in east London. The DAC practices are currently offering free 45 minute online consultations.

We proposed to transform an unloved underpass in the London Borough of Waltham Forest into a ‘Bridge Below’ featuring decorative towers co-designed with local residents, to create a cheerful, safe and well-lit route across a railway line.

Our extension to a 1930s semi-detached house near Victoria Park in east London has been approved. The project opens up a constricted kitchen and dining room to create an open plan, top-lit living space.

Our entry into the Turner Contemporary gallery’s Pioneering Places competition has been shortlisted. The proposal, a whimsical on-shore wind farm, is designed to celebrate the weather, reference Ramsgate’s nautical heritage, and offer shelter from the storm.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services unit we designed for the new Royal Hospital for Sick Children (RHSC) in Edinburgh is finished! We won the competition in 2015 and undertook in-depth user consultations before designing a suite of unconventional healing spaces.

Our extension to a detached house in Yorkshire’s Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty has recently secured planning permission. The design will replace a small conservatory to create new living spaces across the rear and side of a family house, providing a spacious kitchen and snug, and making the most of the impressive views across the valley.

It’s moving day for accuRx, who are leaving their very cramped premises to take possession of the offices we just completed in Haggerston. The fast-growing healthcare start-up briefed us to design a space which accommodated flexible working and events.

We’re pleased to say that the coffee shop we recently designed for new coffee company Formative is now open for business. With a bespoke terrazzo worktop and custom steelwork, the fit out was designed around the flow of the baristas and coffee-loving customers.

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been appointed to design the interiors for a second Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) unit, this time in South Edinburgh. Building on our project currently under construction at Edinburgh’s RHCYP, this commission includes bespoke inbuilt furniture and engaging graphics.

Projects Office are creating the auditorium space for 100% Design 2018. Our bright timber and gauze structure will form the backdrop for the annual design festival’s programme of talks. Projects Office’s Bethan Kay will also be speaking about the design of the structure alongside some of our other projects at 3pm on the 19th of September.

Projects Office have completed an ambitious new office space for a fast-growing food technology start-up.

Projects Office’s colour filled proposal is on display as one of the six shortlisted entries at Dulwich Picture Gallery.

We’re delighted to have been shortlisted for the Dulwich Picture Gallery Pavilion competition 2019.

Our second fit out project for tech start-up Paddle is near completion. Having quickly outgrown the space we designed for them at the end of last year, Paddle took over the lease of the adjacent office in Bermondsey Square. The new fit out includes bespoke joinery items (meeting booths, a panelled stand up area, lockers and fitted storage), a new kitchen and shower rooms.