85 Gray’s Inn Road
An office building re-imagined into a lab-enabled space
Our Client, a real estate investment fund manager, acquired 85 Gray’s Inn Road, previously a speculative office building, seeking to re-purpose it to serve the growing Bioscience sector emanating from the King’s Cross Knowledge Quarter. The intention was to rejuvenate the building and offer improved core facilities such as a roof terrace and an enhanced cycling provision, with an inclusivity focus, to meet the needs of building users in central London.
The design concepts focused on:
Maximising the space to meet the needs of potential science sector tenants.
Providing offices and dry/wet laboratory accommodation for the life sciences sector and ensuring the labs are appropriate for ACDP Category II research.
Re-purposing the space to a science building & guaranteeing future performance — through the significant addition of MEP plant, including a fume extract flue.
Our design team infilled the rear courtyard above ground level providing additional net lettable floor space and area for on floor plant. The plant enclosure at roof level was significantly reconfigured with flues added and new central plant provided. The project achieved BREEAM Excellent and Wired Score Platinum and is a Smart Building.
CLIENT
3,910 m2
AREA
London
LOCATION
Clearbell