UnHerd Media Offices

CDA combined and refurbished 2 buildings in Westminster to create the headquarters for UnHerd Media.  The building includes office space, broadcasting suites, a members club and a brasserie.

As existing No. 2-4 Old Queen Street was a four-storey office building, which had originally been built as apartments in the late nineteenth century.  No. 6 Old Queen Street was a five-floor building, built at the same time. Its ground and lower ground floors were a café called Pickles, the upper levels were an apartment.

To convert the building into UnHerd’s home we connected the buildings through the party wall and created a new stair and lift core to the rear of no. 6.  This allowed us to minimise circulation to create large, open plan rooms on the upper levels of  no. 2-4, as well as making the building wheelchair accessible.  The building becomes more private as you travel up.  We put the office space on the  top two floors, a members club and lecture room / events space on the first floor and a public brasserie on the ground floor, overlooking the street.  This layout allowed the day to day office functions to recede up the building so that public events could take over the first floor when necessary.

We remodelled the shop fronts at ground floor, recreating lost details to improve the streetscape and give the new brasserie a public presence.

Awards:

Finalist for Architect of the Year Awards 2023

Photography: Peter Landers

Interior Designer: Thurstan Design