A previously tired and outdated office building which has been extensively refurbished, reconfigured, reinvented and repositioned to create a high-quality workplace designed for a diverse set of occupiers in the City of London.

As advocates for retrofit, the team felt that there was an opportunity to bring the building back to life whilst preserving much of its original structure. As part of the designs, the steel frame has been retained whilst providing extensive new office space arranged over large adaptable upper floor plates, centred around a communal atrium.

Innovatively designed with sustainability at its core, 60 London Wall has achieved a BREEAM rating of Outstanding by drastically improve the building’s environmental credentials through thermal performance, passive design and the reuse of the existing structure. In total, 8,600 tonnes of carbon have been retained and the embodied carbon of the structural elements measured at 193 kgco2e/m2, sitting well within the LETI 2030 carbon target and just above 2030 targets.