Renzo Piano’s Central St Giles Stanhope Plc Camden, London Sector Workplace, Residential Our Role Architecture Status Completed Central St. Giles won the British Council of Offices’ ‘Best of the Best’ Award in 2011 and is home to Google, NBC Universal and Mindshare. Our involvement began several years earlier when Renzo Piano Building Workshop invited us to collaborate on the design development and construction of their first work in the UK from just before planning permission through to completion. We worked with teams in London, Paris, and Genoa and across Europe exploiting our practice’s design coordination, construction and language skills. The site, previously impenetrable to pedestrians when occupied by bleak government offices, is now a colourful, vibrant link between Bloomsbury and Covent Garden, and when the adjacent Crossrail developments complete in a few years it will seamlessly connect Soho with Holborn. Passages and arcades mark these routes that all traverse the scheme’s cafe and restaurant lined central courtyard. Luxury apartments and affordable homes together with offices for creative industries wrap around the courtyard at upper levels making this a truly mixed – use scheme. Delivering Central St. Giles required our close involvement throughout the design development. We worked closely with the main contractor Lendlease to ensure that the technical performance and manufacturing standards of the distinctive external cladding were rigorously monitored by the manufacturers, with input from the client and design team. The equally distinctive office winter gardens were developed for the marketplace in consultation with real estate advisors and collaboration across the design team, in the widest sense of the word, was a common objective. Photography Credits Hufton + Crow Robin Gautier Practice → Approach People Community Awards Publications Careers Services → Architecture Interior design Urban design Research Sectors → Retail hospitality Workplace Culture sport-leisure Residential Education Contact → Social MailChimp Linkedin Twitter Instagram Facebook Copyright © fletcher priest architects 2021 We use cookies to help us improve your experience on our website. By closing this notification or interacting with the website you agree to our use of cookies. Find out more → I accept