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Finn McLaughlin m: [phone] e: [email protected] Mixed Use The rehabilitation of a building that previously had purpose as only an office, has been adapted and extended into a building of multiple programs and accessibility. The style and materiality are brutal and honest, and it stands as a example for a new, a more inclusive city, of buildings that are accessible to the many. Creating an effective limb, to the organism that is the city. Like a street in vertical, the building works as a whole. While intending to minimise expense, the original basement now a park/ skatepark, and the 1st - 3rd including split levels a market and trading place, ephemeral and non permanent in nature. The 4th a bar, the 5th an extension to rehearsal and performance space for the London College of contemporary music, an obvious invitation for music and energy. And above on the 6th -7th, workshop facilities, and caravan parking made possible by a rooftop crane. 100 bough hi st, is a protest, a protest that the current program organisation of our buildings is not effective and leans towards unaffordablity, rich ghettoisation. 100 Borough High Street 158