100 Liverpool Street London, 1980s office building renewal, Architecture photos, Hopkins Architects
100 Liverpool Street Building
21 July 2022
Design: Hopkins Architects
100 Liverpool Street London Workplace

photograph © Janie Airey
100 Liverpool Street Development
Client: British Land
Awards: RIBA London Award 2022, RIBA London Client of the Year Award 2022 and RIBA National Award 2022 (sponsored by Forterra)
This refurbishment project transforms a former 1980s office building with deep floor plates into a high-quality, flexible commercial building fit for the 21st century. Its approach to reusing the existing building demonstrates clear strategic thinking, keeping what could be salvaged, unpicking what could not, and adding what was necessary.
photo © Janie Airey
The building sits over several railway tracks and is next door to a bus station, so the complexities in the design and build process were manifold. The design retains the existing foundations and a large proportion of the original steelwork, as well as adding three new office floors with extensive terraces and rooftop gardens at upper levels. The cores have been moved to create a new elliptical atrium at the building?s heart, increasing the amount of retail and leisure accommodation and enhancing its quality.
The original cladding has been replaced with a cleverly detailed, sinuous glazed façade. Since the budget did not stretch to curved glass, the flat facets have been masked by projecting fins, and t...