10 New Burlington Street / Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Location: London, UK
Area: 40000.0 ft2
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Rob Parrish, Timothy Soar

Development Manager: Exemplar Properties
Principal Contractor: Mace Group
Demolition/ Enabling Work Contractor: Keltbray Group
Project Manager / Employer’s Agent: Buro Four
Quantity Surveyor: Gardiner and Theobald
Structural Engineer: Waterman Group
Mechanical And Electrical Engineer: Watkins Payne Partnership
Cdm Co Ordinator: Gardiner and Theobald
Approved Inspectors: Butler and Young
Planning Consultant: CB Richard Ellis
Retail Adviser: CB Richard Ellis
Transport Consultant: Atkins Global
Acoustic Consultant: Alan Saunders Associates
Fire Strategy Consultant: Ramboll SAFE
Party Wall, Rights Of Light Surveyor: Delva Patman Associates
Historic Conservation Architect: Donald Insall Associates
Façade Consultants: ARUP Facades
Access Consultant: WSP Group
Disabled Access Consultant: All Clear

From the architect. The first part of an evolving urban story, 10 New Burlington Street is a layered reinvention of an urban block in central London. A triple-glazed volume – gently curving inwards at top and bottom – connects two retained façades on Regent and New Burlington streets to a collection of secret garden spaces, remade from the unused Burlington Mews.

A core is inserted into the building’s new centre, defining one edge of a five-storey internal room that brings light, activity and movement into the central zone. Clad in scalloped blue faïence tiles, the core walls soften light and surface. Below, forgotten vaults are re-inhabited and put to new uses. Above, an exposed steel structure on the sixth floor differentiates itself from the lower levels and opens up the building’s perimeter to expansive views and a rooftop terrace.

In territory defined architecturally by Nash, 10 New Burlington Street arranges 40,000 square feet of new retail space at basement, ground and part first floor below optimised office floorplates totalling 95,000 square feet across six floors. The project’s non-identical twin, also for the Crown Estate, sits across the road on New Burlington Street.