At John Robertson Architects (2012-2013)

bush house & melbourne house

BUSH HOUSE CENTRE BLOCK is the iconic Grade II - Listed former headquarters of the BBC World Service. The Travertine-clad Reception is listed and hence any refurbishment intervention has to be deferential to the existing historical fabric and has to operate within the constraint of a listed space. The proposed design draws from the strength of feature elements and structures that relate to the Reception as objects would relate to a vessel.

The design team was tasked by the agents to create autonomous designs for the 4 buildings due to the location of the Bush House campus between Covent Garden (media), Fleet Street (legal), Strand (education) and Holborn (financial).

Unless credited, rendered elevations and sketches by Fakhry Akkad