Fit for purpose: Hawkins\Brown’s self-designed studio reflects the changing face of work
Relocating to a well-known former showroom in Clerkenwell, the architecture firm’s activity-led, sustainable office is a testing ground for ideas.
This article first appeared in Mix Interiors #232
Words: Helen Parton
Photography: Ruth Ward
Moving into one of Clerkenwell’s best-known locations – the former Vitra showroom on Clerkenwell Road – has given architects Hawkins\Brown the opportunity to walk the talk of activity-based working in an office that has smart working, sociability and sustainability at its heart. “It gave us more creative freedom, a shopfront in a way that identifies us as an organisation and connects us with the wider community,” says Morag Morrison, a partner and interior design sector lead with the practice – founded more than 30 years ago and which works across a number of sectors, among them civic, workplace and education. Having set their sights on the building in early spring 2023, an extensive retrofit was undertaken, designed by the practice’s in-house team with staff moving across in autumn last year.
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