Dec 4

Wieden + Kennedy Office, London by Featherstone Young Architects

This is the new office of advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy, located in The Old Truman Brewery in London’s Brick Lane area

The refurbishment and internal fit out of the brewery - now known as ‘The Cole’ - was the winning entry to an invited competition in 2008.

The intervention creates both a lively workspace and an events venue, as well as providing facilities for a new craft and product development area within the agency.

Featherstone Young, formerly Featherstone Associates, have also included a kitchen and dining area for staff, which features second-hand cabinet handles, a nod to the nearby Petticoat Lane and Spitalfields flea markets.

The workspaces feature ‘crows’ nests’ floating libraries which use the double height spaces in the brewery’s shell. They create smaller, more intimate spaces beneath them and serve to nearly double the floor area.

Just off the main space, a series of ‘garage lock-ups’ have been customised with up-and-over doors, creating hideaway spaces which can also be extensions to the main space.

The ’stairway to nowhere’ and ‘red-tunneled corridor’ are intended to be ‘fun’ spaces which use everyday materials and bright colours to contrast with and complement the industrial surroundings.

Project Wieden + Kennedy office, London E1
Client Wieden + Kennedy London
Architect Featherstone Young
Photographer Tim Brotherton / Chee Kit Lai
Contractor BW Interiors Ltd.
Services Consultant Mendick Waring
Structural Engineer Conisbee
Lighting Designer George Sexton Associates
Quantity Surveryor Burke Hunter Adams
AV Modus Vivendi

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