Morris + Company Ltd

The Featherstone Building

The Featherstone Building
© Jack Hobhouse

The Featherstone Building

Morris+Company

ARCHITECTS
Morris+Company

MANUFACTURERS
Wienerberger, Crest Bst Ltd, Schueco

PLANNING CONSULTANT
DP9

ASSOCIATE
Hugh Queenan

PROJECT ARCHITECT
Niamh Treacy

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Joe Morris, David Storring

SENIOR ARCHITECT
Alejandro Londono, Mario Barrientos

COST CONSULTANT
Exigere

FACADE CONSULTANT
Eckersley O'callaghan

MAIN CONTRACTOR
Skanska

EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT
Veretec

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Heyne Tillet Steel

ARCHITECTURAL CONTRIBUTOR
Alberto Sols, Helene Solvay, Francis Naylder, Jane Chew

APPROVED INSPECTOR
BRCS

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jack Hobhouse

AREA
15989 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
United Kingdom

CATEGORY
Institutional Buildings, Decoration & Ornament

Text description provided by architect.

Featherstone is a new, ten-story workplace building by Morris + Company.

The Featherstone Building
© Jack Hobhouse
The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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Located on City Road, it lies at the intersection of London’s financial, creative, and tech industries, in the heart of a burgeoning hub around Old Street.

Providing varied office floor sizes, generous shower and cycle storage facilities for active travel, and a ground floor café open to the public, the building offers flexibility and amenity for a dynamic local setting.

With textured charcoal façades and purposeful lintels, Featherstone’s materiality and form are a contemporary interpretation of the surrounding Victorian vernaculars of Clerkenwell and Shoreditch.

The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The building consists of four principal blocks: raising from 5 to 11 stories in height. 

At street level, the building’s irregular outer walls provide more pedestrian space and opportunities to dwell, while fully openable floor-to-ceiling windows bring the tree canopies of neighboring Bunhill Fields into the workspaces.

The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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This same biophilic presence has also been harnessed on open-air terraces on the lower ground, fifth floor, and roof level – the latter of which provides sweeping views across the city, available to all tenants.

Its architecture is permeated by texture, openness, and adaptability, all of which combined with the mechanical and electrical aspects of Derwent’s first new intelligent building, give Featherstone its own identity as an office space for the future.

The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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A contemporary workplace for a changing city, Featherstone responds to both the past and future of the workplace, showcasing a building that is sufficiently robust and flexible to ensure its continued use well into the future as London’s Victorian building stock has proven to date.

Adopting modern methods of construction, prefabricated solid brick piers support textured precast spandrels and mullions assembled in a T-shaped configuration on a regular 3m grid, interspersed with Juliette balconies of a fine woven metal balustrade.

The Featherstone Building
© Jack Hobhouse
The Featherstone Building
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The building achieves BREEAM Excellent, and is WELL ready, featuring efficient and discreet mechanical services with excellent environmental performance.

Hand-laid brickwork and precast facade design as a panelized curtain walling system create a significant reduction in the installation program, and a reduction in material and carbon impact, in line with RIBA 2030 targets.

The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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The Featherstone Building
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Morris + Company Ltd
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Morris + Company Ltd
215 Mare St, London E8 3QJ, United Kingdom