InteriorLAB: Royal Town Planning Institute

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London EC3

8,000 sq. ft

Royal Town Planning Institute had a decision to make regarding the suitability of their headquarters, an 8,000 square foot building in Botolph Lane, London which they had owned and occupied for twenty years.

The entire building was to be stripped back to shell and refurbished, including new roof, sash windows, shopfront, passenger lift, staircase, lighting, centralised plant, air-source heat pumps for heating, cooling and domestic hot water services, decentralised fresh air for future resilience and of course a comprehensive Category B office design and fit-out.

Room with blue walls, 12 framed pictures and a desk with three black chairs. To the right are two orange lounge chairs and a small circular table

Engaging with InteriorLAB and Shaw Studios in the summer of 2021, we took the project from brief, through planning and into completion by end of 2022.

Kitchen area with light wood units, light wood flooring and six orange lounge chairs to the right. At the end of the kitchen is a glass wall looking into a meeting room

Internal staircase, with black iron bannister and wood hand rails

Open plan office space with white desks to right

Room with book cases on the left and right walls, filled with booked. In front is an orange lounge chair and small circular table

The project was highly challenging technically and involved the coordination and collaboration of a highly focused professional team of designers, consultants and surveyors to achieve this high quality finish for the RTPI’s home.