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DLA completes post-Covid hybrid workspace for Home Group
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DLA Architecture has completed the “radical” interior design project for the new 70,000 ft2 headquarters of Home Group in Newcastle.
Home Group is one of the UK’s largest providers of housing, health and care, employing nearly 3,000 colleagues. With a turnover of around £430m, the North- East based social enterprise provides homes for over 120,000 customers across 55,000 properties in England and Scotland. One Strawberry Lane – a prominent building in Newcastle city centre – is one of the fi rst workspaces in the UK to be
specifi cally designed for the “post-Covid way of working,” said the architects. The fi ve fl oor building is also one of only 80 in the world to receive Smartscore certifi cation – the highest possible global accreditation for modern buildings.
DLA won a competition to design the
CAT-B workplace fi tout with a brief led by the need for the HQ to respond to the next generation of hybrid working for all types of people and business functions. The majority of the building is the new head offi ce for Home Group, but two of the fl oors are let to external organisations.
The design approach from the outset was to amplify the benefi ts of being in the offi ce in a “dynamic and collaborative environment,” more akin to a theatre stage than traditional offi ce. Designed for “ultimate fl exibility,” routes have been “carved out between hubs of core infrastructure, such as tea points or scanning facilities, dividing the fl oorplate into fl exible zones that can be programmed for different work settings,” the architects commented. Aesthetically, “quirkiness and colour has been taken from more domestic environments to bring the work and home atmospheres closer together.” Greenery and landscape design greatly infl uenced the top fl oor with its “patio, green and forest spaces.” A feature green wall down the central stairwell provides a “biophilic connection” through the building that starts at the cafe and entrance.
One Strawberry Lane was developed by Ask Real Estate and built by BAM; Ryder Architecture designed the project’s CAT-A new building while Overbury delivered the fi tout for Home Group.
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