![]() ![]() ![]() As well as being a model for delivery on a tightly constrained site, the building has set new standards in the speculative office market in terms of quality and cost. A new, extended threshold cuts underneath and through the existing façade to lead into a new, full-height city room where bridges of precast concrete and glass lenses connect offices on both sides and bring animation and activity throughout. Behind, six floors of new office space are inserted, set back from the seven-storey found building with a dramatically tapered form to avoid loss of daylight to neighbouring buildings. ![]() The back half of a 1930s building (previously butchered by bombing and badly reconfigured post-war and then again in the 1980s) is removed and floors and cores stripped out to clean up the piecemeal plan. In knitting old with new in Hatton Garden, the scheme stands as an alternative to the temptation to start from a tabula rasa. The Johnson Building was AHMM’s first large-scale reinvention project. ![]()
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