AIA UK Building Tour Series 2023 - The Northcliffe by JRA

For our first in-person tour of the year, we are excited to be visiting The Northcliffe by JRA!

When: Tuesday 13 June 2023, 18.30-20:00
Where: The Northcliffe, 26 Tudor St, London EC4Y 0AY
CES Credits -  Estimated 1.5 LU/ HSW for AIA Members

Description

The Northcliffe is a Grade II listed building on Tudor Street in the City of London and the former headquarters and print works of the Daily Mail newspaper. Situated near Fleet Street, JRA has re-positioned the building to accommodate prospective tenants from the insurance, legal, fin-tech, social media and technology sectors.

Originally built in the 1920s and redeveloped in 2001, JRA’s proposals have preserved the original Daily Mail facades and extended the office space on the upper three floors. The design also relocates the main entrance and reconfigures the atrium to provide amenity space including break out areas and a café.  

200,000 sq ft of office space has been retrofitted with a focus on sustainability and the design concept, as elsewhere, makes reference to The Northcliffe’s post-industrial heritage. Three new landscaped roof terraces have been created on the upper levels to provide extensive external landscaped amenity space for future office tenants.  

BREEAM Outstanding has been achieved in the design stage and the practice’s sustainable approach has been informed by a Life Cycle Assessment commissioned by the client. Completion was achieved in March 2023.

The AIA UK Chapter cordially invites you to the next in our ongoing series of building tours:

Ironmonger Row Baths

by Tim Ronalds Architects

Tim Ronalds will give a short introduction to the project, followed by a general building tour and discussion.

Meeting Point: Outside main entrance

2 CES Credits are available and admission is free of charge.

Places are very limited. Please RSVP online by clicking here.

Ironmonger Row Baths was built in 1931, designed by Alfred Cross PRIBA, a distinguished architect who specialised in public baths. In 1938, Cross’s son Kenneth added two swimming pools to the side, with a small Turkish baths in the basement. It was listed Grade II in 2006.

Tim Ronalds Architects design repositions the entrance to the Baths to face St Luke’s Gardens. This allows the building to be made accessible and exploits the lightwell spaces between the 1931 and 1938 buildings to make a new coherent circulation.

The building was made to feel lighter, more transparent and more welcoming, but has a new, durable, civic quality that will withstand another fifty years of public use. The project was technically extremely complex and achieved BREEAM Excellent standard.

The building has received several awards:

• RIBA National Award for Architecture
• RIBA London Award for Architecture
• AJ Retrofit Award
• Civic Trust Award Winner