A long-term commercial client approached us to review their property portfolio and identify where we felt we could unlock unseen value. The 'Industrial Yard' (named as such due to confidentiality requests) is a substantial industrial plot populated by period brick warehouses that were underperforming on every level.
Honestly, this isn't the kind of project that wins design awards, but commercial feasibility work like this forms a significant part of our practice, and executing it successfully requires a breadth of knowledge that goes well beyond making things look good.
Not efficient, not attractive, poorly positioned, and with absolutely no street presence. The existing buildings were scattered across the site with no coherent strategy, making inefficient use of valuable commercial land.
