UK architecture studio Buckley Gray Yeoman has revived a 1980s office building in Central London, creating colourful spaces using painted ductwork, translucent curtains and speckled terrazzo.
The newly opened Panagram encompasses 4,830 square metres in the city's Clerkenwell neighbourhood and offers rentable office spaces across multiple levels.
Buckley Gray Yeoman's renovation of the 1980s building included creating an open and informal reception area
Using the original building's pink granite cladding as a design cue, the team at Buckley Gray Yeoman devised a colourful scheme for the interior renovation to create a relaxed setting.
"A retro-pop aesthetic has replaced the corporate look and feel of the building as physical and metaphorical barriers are broken down to bring about a more convivial and lively set of workspaces," said the architecture studio. The foyer features subway-tiled seating but no reception desk
To modernise the existing architecture, glazing was added along the ground floor facing Goswell Road ? a thoroughfare that is home to store locations of several prominent design brands.
Visitors enter from the street into a large open-plan foyer, furnished with custom seating elements but no traditional reception desk ? hosts emerge from a behind a translucent curtain instead.
A koi carp pond sits in the centre of the tiled bench
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