Refurbishment
Monarch House – Travel Lodge
The building has been transformed to provide a 133 bedroom hotel including car and cycle parking on site.
Watkins Payne carried out the Independent Design Reviewer role for Seal House, a commercial office development, located in central London.
A single stage formal review was conducted for the project which included an enhanced level of feedback to the design team to allow for recommendations to be adopted by the project. The project was successful in achieving a Design Reviewed Target Rating of 5.0 Stars.
The building has been transformed to provide a 133 bedroom hotel including car and cycle parking on site.
‘The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has granted planning consent for 115,000 sq ft of new high-quality office space at 63-81 Pelham Street.’
All MEP systems within One Hanover Street are being fully replaced, with new services distributed through the upgraded risers to each office floor. The refurbished building will benefit from high-efficiency heat-recovery systems, LED lighting throughout, intelligent lighting controls, a common network system and new fan-coil units among other modern building services upgrades.
The development is an 12 storey building comprising 13,475m2 (NIA) of office area over basement to eleventh floor and 141m2 of retail area located on ground floor.
Academy House was refurbished to provide 22,100ft² of high quality office accommodation. Watkins Payne supplied building services engineering which saw the 3rd to 6th floor including the ground floor reception of Academy House converted into open plan office areas and reception. This became the London headquarters for Sports Direct.
Watkins Payne was commissioned to design a Cat A fit-out refurbishment across the existing 11,800sq.ft building. The ground floor was completely redeveloped with a new office entrance lobby and 1,300sq.ft new retail space.