最近完成的55贝克街办事处的发展引入了一个充满活力的新的存在伦敦的最重要的城市干道之一。请建筑师设计，根治这一20世纪50年代的办公楼装修追求成本和能源效率战略的保留和加强，这使得结构，以履行其作为一个重要的新的城市市容的潜力。计划，同时提供一个灵活，高效的办公空间的特殊范围，增强活动在街道上，通过提供丰富的使用组合，并引入了大量新的公共空间的街景的利益。原来简短的要求建设应翻新，以最大限度地提高办公地方，除了住宿块后方，并在地面零售。然而，设计团队的做法，是不只是整个应用区别于其他更传统的投机性办公楼项目建设的质量和设计细节，翻新，但作为一个具有里程碑意义的发展的完全重塑整个建筑。尽管它从根本上改善外观，50％的现有建成的面料一直保留。前垂直内核已被删除，理顺流通和新floorplates连接的住宿投影手指创建的办公地方的面积大幅增加。全高度心房保留在这些办公楼层的心脏绘制深入到建筑的自然光，而被保留作为一个庭院和建筑物的后方维修湾和一个引人注目的新的公共入口中庭中央的两个空洞贝克街。
The recently-completed 55 Baker Street office development introduces a dynamic new presence to one of London’s most important urban thoroughfares. Designed by Make Architects, this radical renovation of a 1950s office building pursues a cost- and energy-efficient strategy of retention and enhancement which allows the structure to fulfil its potential as an important new urban amenity. While providing an exceptional range of flexible and highly efficient office spaces, the scheme enhances activity and interest at street level by offering an enriched mix of uses and introducing a substantial new public space to the streetscape. The original brief required that the building should be refurbished to maximise office accommodation, with the addition of a block of residential accommodation to the rear, and retail at ground level. The design team’s approach, however, was not merely to renovate but to completely reinvent the entire building as a landmark development, with the quality and detail of design applied throughout distinguishing the building from other more conventional speculative office projects. Despite its radically improved appearance, 50 per cent of the existing built fabric has been retained. Former vertical cores have been removed to rationalise circulation and new floorplates connect the projecting fingers of accommodation to create a substantially increased area of office accommodation. Full height atria are retained at the heart of these office floors to draw natural light deep into the building, while the two central voids are preserved to serve as a courtyard and servicing bay to the rear of the building and as a striking new public entrance atrium on Baker Street. The transformation of the building is dramatically expressed by three glass skins or
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