http://huftonandcrow.com/www.jeannouvel.com/www.arup.com/www.onenewchange.com/home.aspxDesigned by one of the world's premier architects, Jean Nouvel, One New
Change is an "iconic, world-class building" which will offer a fresh
perspective on the way we work, shop and live in the City.
One New Change will create a new focus in the heart of the
City - a seven-days-a-week shopping and leisure destination. There will
also be a public open space on the roof housing a café/restaurant, which
will open up fantastic new views of neighbouring St Paul's Cathedral
and more widely across the capital.
The design of One New Change will be both contemporary yet complimentary
to Christopher Wren's baroque masterpiece, St Paul's. Jean Nouvel has
designed buildings across four continents, in cities as wide ranging as
Paris, New York, Rio De Janeiro, Tokyo, Madrid and Beijing and has a
reputation for providing challenging, original architecture for highly
sensitive sites.
The shops and offices are organised around a central hub
with the retail units arranged over three floors and the office over the
upper floors with public open space at roof level. A panoramic lift set
within the central atrium gives the public direct access to the roof
and a series of stepped terraces.The external cladding is carefully designed to give ONC a streamlined,
contemporary feel while introducing a dialogue with neighbouring
buildings. The glass is fritted to achieve a gradual gradation in
density from clear to opaque. The treatment of each panel ranges from a
clear glass vision area to a matt opaque finish in a range of colours
and patterns, responding to the local context of each façade of
building. There are 22 different colours and more than 250 different
frit patterns on the glass. There are more than 6,300 glass panels of
different sizes and shapes, with 4,300 individually unique pieces of
glass.
The interior will have a polished feel, while the exterior
is opaque and smooth - so One New Change echoes the surrounding stone
and brick facades and establishes a dialogue with its neighbouring
buildings.