An early audit of this marketing agency’s South Kensington offices gave real insight into the staff culture: that of a group of empowered individuals with a strong sense of community. Pitching for their move east to City Road, the audit was evolved into a ‘civic masterplan’ for their new home, a small city organised around more free-flowing, flexible space.

Now built, the focus of this is a ground-floor town square, where a river-like reception desk curves into timber bleacher seating. The leftover interstitial spaces created between the meeting rooms in the curved footprint of the host building are celebrated, offering a variety of options for dialogue or breakout.