Best Design Studio: Small
Ekho Studio
Globe Point - Leeds
Interior Design - Co-Working & Studio Space | Creator: Ekho Studio | Commissioner: CEG
The brief from CEG to Ekho Studio was to design a professional, interesting and fluid space with the capacity to hold events and to encompass a really good café offer, that would be both aspirational and affordable. The ground floor amenities needed to build on the unique architectural identity of Globe Point, and to generate a sense of place. This was to be an environment to embrace building customers and the wider community by offering a place for informal meetings and work.
The ambition was to create a space with high visual impact via state-of-the-art AV, whilst also celebrating the 'warp, weave and weft’ of craft, through the interesting application of tactile and natural, healthy materials. The aesthetic intent and overall ambience needed to speak the language of the wider Holbeck area, which is currently full of creative, independent companies but which had little in the way of public amenities, specifically environments which nurture casual business encounters. The aspiration was for Globe Point to be a magnet for pioneers and creatives, whose drive and innovation will continue to spark the city’s continued growth.
HQ for AstraZeneca UK
Interior Design - Corporate & Commercial | Creator: Ekho Studio | Commissioner: AstraZeneca UK
AstraZeneca UK’s commercial head office has a new workspace, designed by Ekho Studio, a new interiors agency which has just celebrated its first year in business.
Spread across two floors and over 21,000 sq ft of number 2 Pancras Square, King’s Cross - currently London’s fastest-growing district – and located between the two great railway stations of King’s Cross and St Pancras International.
The new scheme has been created in addition to the 15,000 sq ft the principal company occupies in the same building, having moved there in 2019. The new space is home to staff from AstraZeneca UK, which was previously located in Luton and includes teams across medical, marketing, digital, communications, finance and HR functions, supporting the UK’s biopharmaceutical and oncology business teams.
AstraZeneca UK will use its new King’s Cross HQ to drive collaboration and innovation further. The move reflects AstraZeneca UK’s renewed ambition to drive collaboration and innovation both internally and externally, with its relocation to London’s new ‘Knowledge Quarter’ bringing them closer to their broad network of healthcare partners to work in ambitious, purpose-led partnerships.
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