The studio was commissioned by Arrival, an exciting new tech start-up company that specialises in the design and construction of electric vehicles for goods and mass transport. The brief was to retrofit Beaumont House, an historic warehouse building in Kensington that was originally built in 1892 as a furniture depository for Whiteley’s Department store. It is now occupied by one single user again for the first time, after a period of sub-leases throughout the building.
This has offered the opportunity for a thorough approach to the fit-out of the whole building, to create a large contemporary headquarters for a company with ambitious plans for growth. The design intention is to create an adaptable workplace that has multiple break-out spaces for a diverse range of encounters and activities, as well as a rich selection of amenity facilities to encourage workers back to the office.