Hawkins Brown completes Southwark warehouse project

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Hawkins Brown's Great Suffolk Street warehouse extension and refurbishment

The entrance of Hawkins Brown's Great Suffolk Street warehouse extension and refurbishment

Hawkins Brown's Great Suffolk Street warehouse extension and refurbishment

Inside Hawkins Brown's Great Suffolk Street warehouse extension and refurbishment, which was fitted out by Architecture00 and Studio Weave

The Great Suffolk Street warehouse before it was extended to designs by Hawkins Brown

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Hawkins Brown has announced the completion of its £9.5m refurbishment and extension of a Victorian warehouse building in south London.

The practice added a new-build extension to the 1890 structure on Great Suffolk Street, Southwark, to deliver more than 3,700sq m of office new space, in a project that has been shortlisted for the RIBA London Awards 2018.

Fit-out was by Architecture00 and Studio Weave.

The building will become the new UK headquarters of global events agency George P Johnson.

Hawkins Brown partner Seth Rutt said the new-build element of the project “reinterprets the language of the existing building in a bold, contemporary way”.

“Our approach to retain as much of the existing structure as possible stemmed from both a design and an environmental impact perspective,” he said.

“The subsequent challenge was to create a new building, which finds the right balance between complementing the existing structure and creating a strong, contemporary and contextual extension.

“The resulting building offers generous, adaptable spaces that have been complemented by Architecture00 and Studio Weave’s fit-out, providing a versatile and future-proof place that inspires creativity and is enjoyable to be in.”

The client for the project was Morgan Capital Partners.