Buckley Building, Clerkenwell

The £15 million refurbishment of Derwent London’s Buckley Building is complete. The building offers over 87,000 sq ft of high quality office accommodation with ground level retail in Clerkenwell, the heartland of many of London’s creative industries.

BGY have completely reworked the six-storey 1930s industrial building, adding full-height glazing at ground level and creating a new entrance facing onto the public space of Clerkenwell Green, maximising the civic presence of the building, which occupies a prominent island site.

Exciting interior spaces have been created including site-specific artworks and bespoke furniture.To animate the lobby space, director Matt Yeoman created F=MA, a large-scale kinetic artwork named after Sir Isaac Newton’s famous second law of motion. With the same drive mechanisms used in the wings of the Airbus A380, the entire assembly is put into motion, playfully emulating the familiar swinging of a Newton’s Cradle.

The opening is an especially important moment for the practice as Derwent London named the building after Richard Buckley, one of their late founding partners who died in 2008.

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Buckley Building photos by Hufton & Crow

Matt Yeoman and Helen Leask visit Marzorati Ronchetti’s factory in Milan with Derwent London, to see the steelwork panels destined for The Buckley Building, Clerkenwell.

25 Soho Square

We have completed refurbishment of the former headquarters of the Football Association at 25 Soho Square. The development for Aviva Investors has successfully converted the 62,000 sq ft, eight storey building into a flagship office building with design details that echo the Soho area. The complete refit of the building has created a new double-height main entrance framed with a bronze portal that dramatically increases the prominence of the building on Soho Square. The raw concrete walls and terazzo flooring of the entrance lobby leads to three new lifts and a feature staircase, which adds oak and blackened rolled steel to the restrained material palette. Access to the building is further improved by creating a new entrance on Goslett Yard, positioning the new Crossrail station at Tottenham Court Road on the building’s doorstep.

The Boundary Building

The Boundary Building is now complete.

The apartments created as part of a mixed-use building refurbishment  have the secured the highest resale value for residential space yet achieved in the burgeoning Shoreditch property market. The unprecedented rate of £950 per sq ft reflects the exceptional design quality of BuckleyGrayYeoman’s conversion of the formerly derelict building, located at Boundary Street, Shoredtich, a stone’s throw from the practice’s offices. The 8,000 sq ft of residential space, divided into eight apartments over the upper two floors of the building, sold out weeks in advance of completion.

Retaining the original high street facade and rebuilding the rear section of the building, BuckleyGrayYeoman created a double aspect, mixed-use scheme comprising retail, offices and residential uses. A private landscape courtyard from Boundary Street provides access to the residential penthouses at the top of the building.

Bloomsbury Way

We have just won planning for 10 Bloomsbury Way, a former Ministry of Defence HQ in Holborn, for London & Regional Properties. Strip-out and enabling works are now almost complete – building work is due to start on site in August.

Citadines Prestige Trafalgar

The remodelling of Citadines Trafalgar Apart’Hotel for Ascott International has just been completed. Located in the heart of Central London, Citadines Trafalgar consists of 187 apartments. BuckleyGrayYeoman have created a Citadines Prestige property that will complement the vibrant Citadines brand.