Left The architects wanted ‘to create a warm and tactile workspace in line with the expectations of today’s occupiers’


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3 New Street Square, London


This retrofit of a flexible workspace solution sought to evolve the quality and character of the existing building, while improving its sustainability, flexibility and well-being offering


WORDS BY EMILY MARTIN


DMFK HAS completed the refurbishment, repositioning and 248m2


extension of


Landsec’s 3 New Street Square, an amenity- rich space that is part of innovative flexible workspace solution Myo, which is situated in the Fleet Street Quarter of London. The 6,500m2


retrofit of the existing five-storey, stone-clad development – which was designed by Bennetts Associates in 2008 – sought to evolve the quality and character of the existing building, while making drastic improvements to its sustainability, flexibility and well-being offering in line with the expectations of today’s occupiers. Joshua Scott, director at dMFK Architects, comments: ‘Our approach to the Myo New Street Square project centred around a desire to complement rather than work at odds with the existing structure. It started by embracing the high-quality materiality and rigorous structural grid that defines the character of the 2008 building, using this to inform and evolve the story to create a warm and tactile workspace in line with the expectations of today’s occupiers. Central to this was enhancing the connection to its surroundings with new green views and external amenity and event space.’


dMFK’s most dramatic intervention is the addition of a new rooftop pavilion and events space atop the existing structure’s post-tension concrete frame. The sixth-storey pavilion opens onto a terrace with sweeping views across the city, creating an expansive, beautifully landscaped rooftop destination with the capacity to accommodate over 150 guests. Scott adds: ‘The refurbishment, extension and repositioning has introduced new legibility,


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