Open House London - the way we work
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Our focus is to design great buildings and places and to deliver excellent services to our clients.
Come and see our refurbished HQ at Diespeker Wharf as part of Open House London this year. We’re open from 10am - 4pm on Saturday 16th September with activities for all ages. Ahead of your visit, here’s a little backstory about how the redesign responds to merging work patterns.
?Three fundamental ideas shaped our Diespeker Wharf retrofit (with TTSP ): creating a workplace ‘better than home’ in response to the lockdown and working from home; providing a strong architectural and brand identity for PTE under the leadership of the new generation of partners; and keying into Diespeker’s history of re-use and renewal.
The result is a transformed workplace - improved accessibility, lighting for enhanced wellbeing, and workspace designed for flexible working and sociality: modelmaking and collaboration tables, a new basement kitchen-bar and a renewed focus on the building itself, with previous layers stripped back and window bays opened up. There are new meeting rooms - which can also be used for private calls or study. And then there is what you can’t see: the completely rebuilt floors, accommodating power, data and lighting infrastructure, futureproofing Diespeker for easy alteration.
The changed culture is embodied by the monthly Conference Days. These play out across the last Thursday of the month with talks, surgeries, walking tours, crits, charrettes, homemade lunches and evening fizz – all of them moments enjoyed in a reassuringly familiar yet inspiring new workplace.
Our conference guests - industry and academic experts invited to participate in an end of day panel debate – often comment on the special feel, the buzz, in our workplace. We hope you’ll feel the same during your Open House London visit this year... Come and say hi!
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