We strip out the suspended ceilings to expose the original steel frame, recovering around 300mm of height and bringing volume and light to floor plates that had little of either. The whole building moves to all-electric services, with air source heat pumps replacing gas boilers, lifting the rating from EPC F/G towards B. New ductwork runs beneath existing downstand steel beams, organised alongside lighting and pipework to maintain visual order in the exposed ceilings.

At ground level we double the width of the entrance lobby, absorbing a former coffee-shop bay and removing a cluttered canopy. Terrazzo, red travertine and timber line the arrival spaces, and the existing triangular stair becomes a marker, picked out in deep orange and lit so it reads from the street. Rather than fight the building's 1980s character of brick, precast concrete and Aztec columns, we lean into it.