John Robertson Architects has renovated Bracken House, in London, for the Financial Times' return, carefully updating its Hopkins Architects-designed "gothic high-tech" atrium.
John Robertson Architects refurbished Bracken House for the Financial Times (FT), which is returning to its former office after three decades.
Improvements to the block, which was the first post-war building to be listed in the UK, include turning the roof into an accessible walkway and linking up the structures built at different times.

Bracken House was built on a bomb site near St Paul's Cathedral in the 1958 by Albert Richardson as the offices for international economics newspaper the FT, which had its printing presses there.
Hopkins Architects redeveloped the building after the FT vacated in the 1980s, replacing the hall that held the printing press with a glass and metal structure.
John Robertson Architects retained and refurbished all the major architectural elements of Bracken House, while making several interventions to unify the two eras of the building and make the office spaces more suitable for the needs of a modern print and digital news publication.
The striking atrium was carefully preserved in the refurbishment.

"It's very much an important set piece," David Magyar, director at John Robertson Architects, told Dezeen.
"It has a film noir feel ? it's Gothic high-tech."

Glass lifts with exposed machinery were carefully remade and installed to mainta...