Archetech Issue 21 2015 | Page 51

Structural Engineer: Price & Myers MEPH Engineer: GDM Fire Engineer: Exova Sustainability Consultant: Darren Evans Planning Consultant: DPP Project Manager, Cost Consultant: Jackson Coles
 Main Contractor: Kind & Company CDM Coordinator: Jackson Coles Acoustic Engineer: Sandy Brown Associates Two Tabernacle Street Piercy&Company A refined interpretation of the original period out shell of the original building was all that elevation was
then painstakingly constructed, stood on the site of Two Tabernacle Street. The to be in keeping with the surrounding building’s owner, Durley Investment Corporation, Victorian warehouse character and that of the sought to redevelop the site into offices suited conservation area in which it sits and to align to Shoreditch’s media and technology sector. with the revised internal floor levels. Imperial Piercy&Company’s response was to approach brickwork with weathered pointing and the challenging L-shaped site as two distinct stonework cills, cornices and column capitals elements: the re-instatement of the narrow bear on one another to create an authentic Victorian façade to Tabernacle Street; and brass- Victorian masonry frame. Openings are spanned clad office spaces in the centre of the site. Details with steel beams and infilled with traditionally of the surviving features of the Victorian façade detailed double glazed sash and casement to Tabernacle Street were carefully measured windows. At street level a 3m x 4m frameless and catalogued. glazed picture window to the reception space provides a contemporary touch. Page 51 - Archetech Following a fire in March 2010, the burnt