Interior Design Blog

The interior treatment was not only to provide the progressive agency with a dynamic workspace for their staff but also to create a multi-functional event space to encourage collaborations with creative partners and their clients. Furthermore, a dedicated craft and product development area for its new school within the agency called Platform was created. Platform is an initiative to find future creative talent and an opportunity for young people to work alongside the team on specialist projects, live client briefs and to curate the event space and programme.

Featherstone Young designed all the spaces to be fun and flexible. One floor is dominated by a large flexible auditorium space that can host a range of events from intimate one-to-one meetings to large-scale music performances for up to 160 people. Bespoke retractable lights enable the change of atmosphere and Featherstone Young used wire-framed construction work lights in cluster arrangements to emulate a chandelier effect. Off this main space are a series of garage lock-ups that have customised up-and-over doors allowing the lock-ups to be either hideaway spaces for private activities or be extensions of the main space.

Within the workspaces there are floating libraries likened to 'crows' nests' which take full advantage of the double height industrial space. These floating spaces provide visual links across the larger workspaces and create smaller intimate spaces beneath, they also have the added benefit of virtually doubling the floor space.

Other facilities accommodated in the new space include editing suites, product development and research labs, flexible gallery space and a roof top terrace.