Hawkins\Brown – Havering Town Hall

Hawkins\Brown’s refurbishment of Havering Town Hall consolidates all staff under one roof and enables new and improved ways of working for the benefit of the whole community. 

The design encourages activity-based working, with staff making shared use of diverse work settings that support different kinds of activities. Hawkins\Brown worked with the council and a local supplier to select a range of furniture and space types – a ‘kit-of-parts’ to be utilised throughout the building. This design approach allows for consistency; the same workspace strategy can be easily adopted and applied to other areas of the Town Hall refurbishment in the future. 

 As an extension to the listed Town Hall building, consideration was given to create an aesthetical palette that compliments the wider scheme and future phases. The focus was on creating a palette of sustainable materials with natural colour tones, improving user comfort whilst complimenting the 1930s architecture in a contemporary manner.