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Pathé Films Building in Soho
Luxury Wardour St Housing Development in Central London, England, UK – design by Sheppard Robson Architects
30 Nov 2016
Pathé Films Building
Design: Sheppard Robson, Architects

Location: 103-109 Wardour Street, Soho, London, UK
New lease of life for Soho?s former Pathé Films Building

Sheppard Robson and its interior design group, ID:SR, combine to complete a luxury residential development that celebrates the building?s past.

Originally the office for Pathé Films, 103-109 Wardour Street has been reinterpreted and transformed by Sheppard Robson to house 13 luxury apartments, a gym and two duplex penthouses that frame remarkable views over Soho and Piccadilly. The starting point for the design, commissioned by owners Legal & General Property, was to uncover and interpret the building?s connections to both film and the area?s industrial heritage, using this to create a development that was both distinctly modern yet sympathetic to its location in the heart of Soho.
Previous development of the building removed most of the original early 1900s building in 1996, retaining the ornate Portland stone Edwardian frontage and building a new structure behind it. This led to an inconsistency of quality, with heritage façade forming a veil that covered a building of lower design quality.

The close partnership between Sheppard Robson ...