One Victoria Street
- Client: Legal & General Property
- Contacts: Steve Harvey, Thomas Futcher
Offering in excess 4,000 sqm of new flexible Grade A office space set over five floors, the redevelopment has nearly doubled the nett office floor space on the site. As one of the first major office developments in the area for almost a decade, the proposals were closely scrutinised and challenged at Planning Stage.
Sustainability features highly in the quality of the design outside and in. The additional quantum of office space provides a sizable increase in employment. The internal fit out focused on wellbeing and nature with natural materials and planting. The floor plates have been designed for either single or multi-let use with individual floors able to be split into two independent demises. Electric car charging facilities, and cycle / shower facilities encourage sustainable travel. The site has access to a number of public transport routes too, reducing reliance on staff and visitors by car.
The Client’s key development principles that formed their brief has been placed on creating a new and attractive destination and workplace that integrates fully with the historic town centre enhancing the townscape and local community.
Placemaking and well-being is truly at the heart of this new development, with sustainability at the forefront of the design. The thermally efficient facades maximise daylighting, enhancing the workplace and achieving BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and WELL accreditation. Planting has been provided in the form of “green roofs”, extensive terrace planters and street level landscaping to enhance the biodiversity of the site.
Set within the historic streetscapes of Windsor Town Centre Conservation Area, One Victoria Street delivers a high quality new sustainable office space offering unique views towards the Grade 1 listed Windsor Castle. It has been designed in response to the surrounding historical context, whilst clearly being a modern addition replacing a tired and disjointed 1970s office building. The design for the envelope focused on the use of traditional and modern materials to meet the needs of a 21st century office building, whilst sitting within the historic context of the Windsor Town Centre conservation area.
The use of traditional handset bricks with a mixture of light and dark tones and soldier course banding brings a domestic character to the base of the scheme, responding to the surrounding plot heights and widths. The various upper-level setbacks serve to emphasise the historical rhythm and reduce the perceived bulk of the structure. The double height windows at first and second floors tie the commercial floors together expressing hierarchical proportions, while detailed in a contemporary manner.
