🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Bindery

Art deco green

Built on the site of a bookbinder, a jewellery maker, a clockmaker and a metal workshop – inspired by the local history of ‘making’. The Bindery is what office space should be.

📍Location

Farringdon, EC1

🏢Building Details

• Refurbishment of 1930s Art Deco building, completed 2022

• 26,284 sq ft office + 3,752 sq ft outdoor space

• 7 floors

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Robert Harris – Director & Head of Commercial @ Dorrington PLC

• Andrew Giblin – Managing Director @ Dorrington PLC

• Peter Smith – Director @ Open Contracts

✍️Architects & Engineers

• Harry Bucknall – Director @ Piercy&Company

• Pete Jennings – Director @ Piercy&Company

• Fiona Neil – Director @ Piercy&Company

• Andy Sturgeon – Landscape Designer & MD @ Andy Sturgeon Landscape and Garden Design

• Jeanette Hennigan – Wellbeing Advisor & Founder @ HelpYourHead

• Tom Steel – Director @ Heyne Tillett Steel

• Carbon Intelligence

🌱Sustainability

• EPC A + reuse of embodied carbon

• Almost all construction waste recycled or reused, including carpet tiles, light fittings + furniture that was donated to a local charity

• Natural ventilation simply provided by 14 openable windows on each floor – cleverly operated by bespoke winding mechanism

• Latest zero-carbon technology: low energy water heating + lighting, photovoltaics, 100% green energy supply + smart metering

• Timber floors sustainably sourced (FSC rated) European oak laid on recycled full access raised floor panels

🥦 Wellbeing

• Reception doubles as welcoming gallery – seamlessly leading onto a landscaped terrace – with focal steel sculpture by Eddie Roberts, crafted from salvaged building material

• 5 beautifully designed outdoor garden spaces designed by Chelsea Flower Show “Best in Show” landscape designer, Andy Sturgeon – including 7th floor roof garden with exercise + relaxation areas

• Bike-friendly: automatic rear gates provide seamless access to the courtyard, bike parking, maintenance area, club-quality showers + lockers

• High uncluttered ceilings, calming natural palette + huge windows flood the space with light and views

🎈Bonus feature

The terraces include 3 “Pure Greenhouses” – elegantly designed for the modern gardener, for people to come into contact with growing and nurturing. Aka. valuable time away from desk.

🔗 Check it out https://thebinderyec1.com/