Four-blocked, brick-faced office building stepping away from an 11-storey tower, with a rich mixture of tenancies.

Derwent London
Shoreditch, London
£40 million
128,000 square feet

  • Sensitive location adjacent to the Grade I-listed Bunhill Fields burial ground
  • High quality office building will include a café, retail units and affordable workspaces
  • 11-storey tower steps down to five storeys to west of development
  • Mix of uses responds to high demand in the Tech City area around Old Street
  • Ambition that building will be as robust and flexible as London’s stock of Victorian structures
  • Generous floor-to-ceiling heights, fully openable windows and mixed-mode ventilation
  • Tenant amenities include roof terraces and communal breakout space

Client: Derwent London
Structural Engineer: Heyne Tillett Steel
Services Engineer: WSP

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