8 PROJECT A facade of two faces for London refurb
A striking facility with two distinct facades designed by Campbell Architects is under construction in central London. Located at the corner of Hanover Square
and Oxford Street, the eight-storey project for investment management firm Aviva Investors includes retail and office space with a high-quality reception, stone walls and a roof garden. The redevelopment required the architects
to join two separate properties into one unit, but also to design different facades on either elevation. The building facade towards Hanover
Square is somewhat restrained, clad in Piedro Falls charcoal brickwork and Portland stone, while a large shopfront with bay windows and faience cladding made of 14 types of tiles was created for the more flamboyant Oxford Street-facing elevation. Campbell Architects and Watermans
Structural Engineers worked alongside pre- casters Sterling Services to develop the design of the structure and units of the Hanover Square elevation, while a supplier of Italian terracotta and faience delivered the tiles for the Oxford Street cladding, which then had to be fixed mechanically to the precast. The architects had to revisit the design
of the Hanover Square elevation as the original structure was not suited to support a precast facade. The solution involved a combination of stacked and fully supported panels with mounting points incorporated. On the Oxford Street elevation, mount-
ing the tiles to the surface of the concrete panel did not fall into any British Standard, so the precaster developed a method to mechanically connect each tile to the panels.
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