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‘Tosca’s new HQ is a well-dressed, hospitality-led environment with an informally luxe feel, combined with the intimacy and scale of a domestic environment’ John Williams


Te overall space occupied by Tosca within the scheme is a fifth floor split suite, with access to one of the roof terraces.


Project ambitions


‘Tosca is a very forward-thinking and successful finance sector business, with a real sense of quality and style’, SpaceInvader founder John Williams commented. ‘It was important for them that their people could be together at their best and so the overall brief was for a lot of different spatial typologies within the 2,000ft2 fifth floor of the Trinity building’.


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Clockwise Tosca Debt Capital worked with SpaceInvader to create its boutique workspace; The staff teapoint includes write-on walls for unexpected collaboration; The boardroom is the most formal area in the scheme; The scheme is located on the fifth floor of the Trinity Building in Manchester


Te client’s brand values were defined as ‘experienced, professional and knowledgeable, reliable and responsive and relationship-driven’. SpaceInvader’s approach was to create an interior that would reflect Tosca as a forward- facing professional company, without any kind of faddy or trend-led concept, but creating instead an understated, high-quality scheme with muted, warm tones and high levels of bespoke joinery and craftsmanship to communicate a quiet and sophisticated feel. ‘In many ways, this project is a vision of what the future workspace will be for many companies,’ Williams added. ‘Tis is a client who has moved away from a traditional office and who briefed for a space to fit current and future


needs, where the workspace becomes a hub, not only for them, but for clients too and for the businesses whose boards they serve on, with the space able to perform a multitude of tasks, ranging from meetings to focused work, one-to-one and larger collaborations, with enough space for project pin-ups and reviews, as well as spaces for breakout, hospitality and entertainment.’


Te space


Te overall space is comprised of a fifth floor split suite, with access to a roof terrace. With a prime position overlooking Manchester’s city centre, the outlook and additional external terrace give the space a natural focal point. Key views were to be enhanced throughout through considered framing both in the interior spaces and out to the exterior urban landscape. To ensure views out were maximised, along with natural light ingress, the majority of the space was kept open plan with joinery used to divide areas without blocking views.


As Tosca’s former offices were fairly basic, this was a real opportunity for reinvention and the process involved a high-level of engagement with a very hands-on client owner. A strong vision emerged from that, followed by thorough engagement with the wider Tosca team to ensure no needs, functions or aspirations had been missed and


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