Mixology North22 Awards - Finalists Brochure

finalists 2022

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Mixology North is, for the Mix Media team, one of the highlights of the year. Not only is it our great and continued pleasure to celebrate the best of commercial interior design from the North of the UK, but we get to do it on our own turf – welcoming industry friends from near and far to the city we call home.

Tonight we not only come together to acknowledge the projects and products from the past year that most represent creativity, innovation and thoughtful design, but also to toast the enduring sense of collaboration that makes this industry what it is. This evening, there is no competition only community, so cheer loudly, applaud vigorously and dance like nobody’s watching.

Harry McKinley Managing Editor Mix Interiors

judges 2022

Thanks to our prestigious 2022 judges

Roger Stephenson OBE

Chair of

Judges,

Managing

Partner, stephenson hamilton risley STUDIO

Roger Stephenson OBE founded his practice in 1979, which has been deeply involved in the urban regeneration of Manchester. Stephenson has completed many of Manchester’s significant buildings: the new building for Chetham’s School of Music was shortlisted for the Sterling Prize. In 2001 he received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to architecture and is also a visiting professor at Liverpool University School of Architecture.

Sax Arshad Founder + Creative Director, Zanna Hospitality Group

Arshad and his team operate and consult across an area covering the North West, Midlands, Yorkshire and Wales, working with brands such as Evelyns, Gooey, Mughli and Bacino. Zanna are a diverse and dynamic team that are passionate about all things hospitality.

Alan Bainbridge

Director for BBC Workplace, BBC

Director for BBC Workplace, which has over 150 locations across the UK, Bainbridge has over 30 years’ experience in construction, property and facilities management. His involvement in flagship schemes from PFI, retail, commercial and media has given him a breadth of understanding across the market, from owner to occupier, and across the supply chain. He led the delivery of the award winning MediaCityUK in Salford for the BBC and Central Square, Cardiff, the new HQ of BBC Wales. He is committed to using the best in British manufacturing and fabrication, and is also on the committee for the BSI PAS-6463 inclusivity in workplace design.

Alex Duffy

Head of Operations, Epic Games

Duffy has worked in finance and operational roles across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, travel and digital marketing, before landing at Cubic Motion 6 years ago. Since moving into the computer games industry, she has overseen several construction projects including the building of a world-leading motion capture stage and a significant office expansion. When Cubic Motion was bought by Epic Games three years ago, she progressed into a senior operational role and has been leading projects to double the Manchester office space, as well as multiple fit-out projects, to implement emerging scan technology across the UK, US and Europe.

Ryan Crown Creative Director, Crown Creative

Ryan Crown is the founder of Crown Creative - a creative agency for the hospitality industry. Through concept development, brand strategy, visual identity and interior design, Crown’s team creates work that is both beautiful and meaningful for their clients across the US and the UK. Crown’s experience extends from Michelin Star restaurants to global hoteliers, including Marriott, Waldorf Astoria and Hilton, and everything in between. Additionally, Crown has developed and operated concepts of his own - Neighbourhood Cafe, Hill Street Hatch and the award-winning Toast Office.

Matthew Morten

Head of Building Surveying, Bruntwood Works

Morten has been a building surveyor at Bruntwood for 11 years, spending the majority of this time project managing and developing commercial office building refurbishments in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. His most successful projects to date include Neo (Manchester), Cornerblock (Birmingham) and the ongoing West Village Leeds redevelopment.

Peter Jackson

Director: North West Property, Faithful+Gould

Jackson leads F+G’s Property operation in the North West, charged with growing the company’s client base within the commercial, mixed-use and leisure markets. With over 25 years of development and construction experience, he has led the successful delivery of numerous high profile projects and programmes for clients including Aviva, HRMC, Royal London and MTV.

Lee Oxley

Head of Workplace, Channel 4

With 20 years’ experience working across professional services, media and technology businesses such as Oracle, NBCUniversal, Experian and most recently Channel 4, where he is Head of Workspace. Oxley brings a large portfolio of creating workspaces both in the UK and internationally, having worked overseas in the US and South East Asia, building up an extensive level of experience in real estate. He is proponent within businesses to better understand and value how workspaces are a key component for every business – in particular delivering exciting and vibrant spaces with integrated technology, to improve how people interact with them.

Sam Sahni Strategy Leader

Highly experienced within the consulting and construction industry, Sahni’s knowledge comes from exposure to a variety of sectors including finance, FMCG, real estate and engineering. He’s a dynamic leader and thinker, with the ability to build business, develop client bases and take accountability for complex projects. He has also authored a number of organisational white papers and presented at industry conferences.

Ed Snaith Director, Allied

Snaith forms part of the Allied London development team, with a remit to deliver the development and fit-out of the group’s expanding flex workspace (Department) offer alongside other core business projects. With a background in project managing commercial office fit-out and the refurbishment of existing building stock, he has worked with numerous serviced/flex workspace operators including FORA, TOG and British Land.

Jonathan Stirzaker Philips Associate Director, JLL

Stirzaker Philips is a chartered building surveyor specialising in project management. He has experience in delivering a diverse range of projects through the full project life cycle, including commercial office and luxury health care fit-outs and high-end residential and commercial new build – representing clients including Bupa, Richmond Villages and Roku.

Joya Zaman

Associate, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

A member of the BCO, Zaman’s experience predominantly lies in residential, commercial and mixeduse projects. She completed the commercial aspect of the Circle Square development in Manchester in 2021 - made up of two speculative offices and subterranean pavilions below a landscaped public realm, and a net zero carbon, CLT timber commercial mixed-use building on Old Paradise Street, Lambeth, which has won the NLA award for Unbuilt Workplace 2020 and the WAFX Climate, Energy & Carbon Award 2021. Zaman is also a Part 3 Examiner at the University of Westminster and a Mentor at You Make It and the Architecture Race Forum.

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Décor Collection Amtico

Part of its flagship Signature collection, Amtico Décor is a range of premium made-to-order LVT flooring where historical design meets cutting-edge technique. With seven patterns in 25 colourways in total, it is easy to blend traditional styling with contemporary stones and rich rustic woods.

Truly BOLON

This unique and bold collection is created in-house and consists of five distinct patterns – Anything Everything, Disrupt, Discover, 100% Precis and I See You – each with its own expression, representing the passions and expertise of the five women who make up the Bolon design team.

Eco Collection Ege Carpets

Ege Carpets’ Eco collection creates infinite combinations of flooring in which colours react uniquely to one-another. Textile designer Margrethe Odgaard developed the four ranges in the collection – Eco Pro, Eco Rustic, Eco Structure and Eco Compact – comprising a 56-shade palette of social colours that complement and lift each other, plus vibrant, statement shades.

Created by Mac Stopa Forbo Flooring Systems

‘Created by Mac Stopa’ is the latest in Forbo Flooring Systems’ range of graphical flooring solutions curated by the industry’s most prominent designers to create strong and aspirational spaces. Designs are printed onto flocked flooring using high-definition printing techniques, and manufacturing processes follow the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle and renew.

Creation Collection 2022 Gerf lor

Gerflor’s updated Creation Collection offers designers an à la carte choice of design and fitting for both renovations and new projects. The collection delivers four ranges for different traffic levels and five fitting systems, featuring an innovative Protectshield™ Treatment from Gerflor – providing optimal protection to prevent wear and tear for years to come.

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Woven Gradience Interface

Interface’s Woven Gradience carpet tile collection is a celebration of colour, enabling businesses to seamlessly inject vibrant, uplifting tones into commercial spaces through an innovative soft transitional design. Introduced to better the human experience of workspaces following the pandemic, the collection was inspired by the fusions of colour in nature.

Immersion

IVC Commercial

IVC Commercial’s Immersion carpet tiles enrich commercial interiors with dynamic textures, making a room’s floor appear as though it is continually in motion. Produced using Thrive® matter, the world’s first carbon negative nylon yarn, IVC Commercial’s Belgian-made Immersion collection is available in alternate, liberate and animate – a palette of sophisticated tones that add intrigue and sophistication to a commercial space.

Modern Movement Milliken

Inspired by mid-century modern, Modern Movement is a carbon neutral carpet plank collection designed by Milliken’s in-house designers - Helen Lloyd and Kathryn Tyms. Its two designs, ‘Crossing Lines’ and ‘Simple Lines’, are characterised by clean lines, angular structures, minimalistic aesthetics and simple forms, resulting in a streamlined aesthetic combined with a rich dimensional texture.

Artcore modulyss

Inspired by the interaction between natural and manmade elements, modulyss’ Artcore collection reconnects nature with commercial interiors while rethinking spatial design. Made up of four distinctive gradient carpet tiles – Core, Etch, Litho & Mezzo – each style conjures up different emotions and fits together in several ways, allowing for fluid patterns and defined zones.

LVT Versailles Panel Plusf loor

LVT Versailles is a single-format panel embossed with Plusfloor’s very own TrueGrain finish to look and feel more luxurious, offering a bespoke touch to any interior. Made from up to 50% recycled materials, it features a textured grain closely resembling the grooves, lines and knots you would find in a real hardwood floor, without the designer price tag.

The Kindred Collection Shaw Contract

Designed to evoke feeling and personal connection, The Kindred Collection offers a solution to celebrate the symbiosis between technological and organic forms. Its five styles work together or alone to support pattern interplay and striking transitions, Kindred provides possibilities for cohesive design that aids connectivity between people and places.

DESSO Origins Tarkett

Tarkett’s DESSO Origin has the lowest circular carbon footprint for a carpet tile in Europe – 1.40 kg CO2/m2 –a figure six times lower than its competitors. As part of Tarkett’s innovative ReStart programme, carpet tiles from the DESSO Origins collection can be returned, resulting in a fully closed-loop recycling scheme.

Carbonised Collection Woodworks by Ted Todd

Crafted by artisans using Yakisugi, the ancient Japanese technique of charring wood to produce deep silvered tones, Woodworks by Ted Todd’s Carbonised Collection meshes brutalist design with wooden flooring. Artisans finish the Carbonised Collection by hand, with Woodworks by Ted Todd’s Naked Skin Lacquer or Restoration Oil – the outcome is a flooring that will last a lifetime in modern projects.

Holly Acoustic Light Abstracta

Inspired by the Holly bush’s clustering of berries, the Holly Acoustic Light plays with the contrasts between light, reflection and shadows. Made from steel, glass and a recycled textile and polyester mix, Holly is available in two versions – a vertical style suitable for high-ceiling spaces, and a horizontal alternative to be suspended over large areas.

Accessible Collection Fitzroy of London

Fitzroy of London offers design-led washrooms that are safe, dignified and equal in design to their non-accessible counterparts. With eight in-house designed ranges, an extensive range of finish options and custom designs available, existing finishes of other brassware brands can be matched to provide a complementary design.

AERO313 FUTURE Designs

Designed by BDG architecture + design and manufactured by FUTURE Designs – AERO 313 is a bespoke, circular luminaire developed for the latest WPP campus in Detroit. In a creative approach to the ceiling and acoustics budget of a commercial project, the light incorporates practical requirements such as sprinklers, M+E systems, speakers, and smoke detectors.

NeatCharge Humanscale

NeatCharge is a wireless charger designed with a holistic approach to ergonomics, in which user experience and interaction are front of mind. Enabling devices to charge by simply being placed on a designated work surface, NeatCharge eliminates the need for unsightly cables and phone chargers on the desk and allowing for a neater and more hygienic work environment.

QikPOST OE Electrics

OE Electrics presents the first mobile, battery powered charging solution in modular form, where parts can be configured to suit the user’s needs. Perfect for flexible collaborative areas, QIKPOST allows you to put power wherever you like, regardless of the presence of wires.

Hevea Partition Pedrali

Hevea Partition is a versatile furnishing element that creates green walls and layouts in commercial spaces. Mechanically fastening and easily separable, steel columns and polypropylene pots are combined to obtain different configurations based on their number and position.

Tromsø Grid is a fully customisable oval-shaped lighting feature with a recycled PET acoustic grid infill and hanging plants. Combining the functionality of light, the sound reducing acoustic grid and the feel-good factor of the plants, this product provides a solution for creating a gathering point or separate zone in open plan settings.

Tromsø Grid Synergy Creativ and Strom + Overgaard

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Designed by Studio Stockholm, Agile by Abstracta acts as a project workspace on wheels equipped with all the necessary tools. One side features a magnetic whiteboard and, on the other, a fully integrated, digital screen, speakers and camera, with a USB-C cable for powering peripherals.

Aeeri Arper

Like origami creations that fold paper into form, Aeeri bends a single sheet of steel into a slender, sculptural table. The new collection by Peter Kunz for Arper is inspired by high-tech engineering – made from a single sheet of steel just one millimetre thick and folded to create a tabletop that is rigid and strong. Thanks to its lightness, Aeeri can be easily moved and assembled in only a few minutes without tools.

Inspired by the Norwegian word for ‘dome’, Kuppel is a 1.2 metre-wide personal workspace solution, complete with power and a large tablet arm, that enables the user to escape the distractions of the open-plan workplace. Its soft circular shape provides an acoustic shield and reduces visual distractions.

Hybe EFG

EFG presents Hybe, its hybrid seating range designed in collaboration with design studio, Form Us With Love. Created to meet tomorrow’s needs for mobile seating and meeting spaces, Hybe allows for reconfigurable spaces that promote productivity and creativity.

Agile Abstracta

Kuppel Connection

Morph is a new modular system for fast build adaptable commercial furniture and fit-out solutions. A simple yet circular design, Morph is a hollow brick with a unique connection system that can create multiple products including walls, desks, tables, video conferencing units, reception desks and tiered seating – made from 100% recycled plastic.

Thelma Offecct

Designed by Pauline Deltour, Offecct’s Thelma is characterized with meticulous detail. Styled with simplicity, block-coloured fabrics are wrapped around the sound absorber to create a tailored and elegant expression. Thelma articulates a light-hearted playfulness with its focused yet relaxed aesthetic.

Jeff is a contemporary modular sofa system, designed as a set of miniature architectures and skillfully combined to create multiple modular and reconfigurable scenarios. The distinguishing feature of Jeff is its harmony of volumes: the squared backrest pairs with a delicate seat to soften and give balance to the whole structure and provide effective lumbar support.

Rebel Collection PLANQ

The new Rebel Collection is an embodiment of what a truly circular piece of furniture can look like – formed from innovative ‘PLANQtextile’ material created from approximately eight pairs of jeans (equating to around four kilos of textile waste) for each piece of furniture. Circular economy principles played a vital role in designing every aspect of the Rebel Collection, from the material used on the seat and back to how the frame is produced.

Jeff Pedrali

Morph Morph Bricks

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The Room for Zoom ROOM Adapt Wall

ROOM introduces a turnkey video conference space that bridges the gap between in-person and remote for the new hybrid workplace. The Room for Zoom combines ROOM’s modular Focus Room with an HP All-in-One, pre-installed with Zoom Rooms software, plus built-in lighting optimal for video conferencing.

The Senator Group

Born out of the idea to create mobile partitions, the Adapt Wall empowers users to confidently transform any space on demand. Made of 46% recycled matter, Adapt supports activity with adaptive features including a whiteboard, media attachment, sound absorbent panel, plus shelves and storage.

With an architecturally inspired asymmetric silhouette and precisely crafted with a strong, lightweight steel structure, Milo tables add creativity and intrigue to commercial environments. Available in a range of top finishes, Milo tables have clever invisible fixing methods allowing the furniture item to be flat-packed when shipped to reduce environmental impact.

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Bastille Allermuir

Designed with hospitality spaces in mind, Bastille by Allermuir is a seating family made up of dining, lounge and bar stools with a minimalist yet luxurious aesthetic. The seat tapers in at the front of the silhouette creating a pleasing visual separation from the back rest. Available in a range of upholstery fabrics, Bastille can be paired with one of four carefully considered new luxe leg frame finishes.

Profim Revo Flokk

Flokk’s Profim Revo includes sofas, benches, screens, pouffes and tables in softly contoured, organic shapes, configurable to suit every workspace. Revo uses second-life material REPP (recycled expanded polypropylene) for its upholstery frames and is made in Poland using only local supply chains. Just three moulds are needed to create every component in the collection, maximising efficiency while minimising carbon emissions.

Icon Mara Balance Chair Modus

Designed to complement Mara’s renowned table collections, Icon is a comfortable and cosy armchair composed of seat and back in soft polyurethane foam. Embracing shapes and geometric lines with a strong stylistic mark, its dynamic nature makes Icon ideal for any furnishing environment and architectural space.

Reinterpreting the traditional task chair, Jonathan Prestwich’s Balance Chair® strikes the balance between armchair comfort and task chair functionality. The Balance Chair has a responsive, weight adjusted mechanism designed for every type of user. Reacting to every movement, the mechanism creates a synergy between user and chair, making meetings more fluid and collaboration effortless, balancing responsiveness with an inviting softness.

Pauline Offecct Lamorisse Pedrali

Pauline Deltour’s armchair namesake, Pauline, is characterized by its meticulous details and tailored elegance. With a need in workspaces for increased flexibility, Offecct’s armchair is intended for use in adaptable commercial settings. The armchair has small shifts in proportions and functional solutions that create a natural elegance and sophisticated playfulness.

Lamorisse by Pedrali is an armchair designed for the outdoors. Its aluminium frame makes it ideal for shaded outdoor areas including waterfront verandas, a poolside table and on a ship’s decking. The easy placement of its zipped cushioning facilitates storage and handling and allows the padded parts to be renovated without having to replace the entire product.

Sedir by Sixteen3 demonstrates simple design, balanced proportions and exceptional levels of comfort in its consciously designed soft seating selection made using innovative eco-materials. Following extensive testing, a large proportion of the traditional timber used in Sedir’s frame has been replaced with a sustainable board made of waste agricultural fibres.

D2 Skandiform by Kinnarps

Made from recycled plastic and hemp, the D2 chair is made to stand the test of time from both a quality and design perspective. With 18 versions, the chair is fully customisable with a range of colour, frame and upholstery aesthetics. Practicality and comfort combine as the airy design and natural feel of the two-part chair makes D2 easy to spread out, stack up or hang over the edge of a table.

Hembury Chair Solidwool

Born from the desire to create something beautiful yet purposeful, founders Justin and Hannah Floyd created Solidwool – a unique composite made up of British Herdwick Wool and bio-resin, producing a fibreglass look-and-touch. New custodians Roger Oates Design have redesigned the Hembury Chair, now with twice as much wool as the initial conception, and half the amount of bio-resin.

Blue Finn Vepa

Working with Bywyd, a climate neutral technology provider, Vepa are proud to launch Blue Finn. Made from 85% recycled blue wrap – the material that hospitals use to keep surgical instruments sterile – the chair offers a carbon reduction of approximately 35% compared to virgin plastic. Individual components are easily separated and reused at the end of their life to create new components

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Tegulis Altro PaperStone CDUK

Altro Tegulis tile-effect wall panels offer a grout-free alternative to traditional tiles which are easy to clean, robust and hygienic. Panels are available in an array of colour and tile-effect combinations including chevron, herringbone, hexagon and mosaic, allowing for a realistic tiled look without any of the drawbacks of the original.

PaperStone® is a new generation sustainable material, made from recycled paper with natural resin, the surface has a unique, textured effect creating an organic warmth, which can be specified in a range of natural hues. Eleven rich, tactile colours across two ranges and a range of thicknesses provide a broad spectrum of surface design solutions.

TM9 is the flagship finish of EGGER’s new PerfectSense Texture range, bringing luxurious matt lacquered surfaces to a more environmentally conscious and cost-effective core. The single-sided board formula is designed to bring luxurious looking surfaces to furniture frontals. Achieving carbon negative status, TM9 is made with recycled wood and sawmill by-product, and is 100% recyclable.

Melrose Johnson Tiles

Melrose is a collection of glazed ceramic wall tiles that combines form and function across a new slim format size of 245x75mm, keying into the trend for small-format tiles. With this slim brick format, Melrose is sleek and sophisticated, adding a distinct and personal touch to any space. The slim size allows for the creation of truly unique lay patterns to provide stunning decoration and maximise the creative possibilities within any interior.

PerfectSense Texture TM9 EGGER

Made in Italy, Strata Technical Stone Marble is a composite stone that uses modern production to create a terrazzo alternative with a 93% post-industrial recycled content and complete creative control. Available in bespoke colours and sizes, it can also be water jet cut into a wide array of unique looks that reflect the timeless appeal of terrazzo finishes.

Veneer PLANQ

Made from textile waste, such as old denim and army clothing, and biobased fibres like flax and hemp, Rezign® veneer aims to remove as much textile waste as possible from landfill through a unique circular process to bridge the gap between design and environmental consciousness. Fibres are shredded and carded into felt, then pressed with a biodegradable binder to make a hard veneer.

Harmony Acoustics Soundtect Ltd

Made from up to 70% recycled content and finely tuned reverberation and sound control, Soundtect’s Harmony Freestyle™ Panels range are architecturally inspired with easy installation on curved and straight surfaces alike. They can be used to create a range of contemporary wall and ceiling applications offering bespoke arrangements incorporating the Freestyle standard and Timba wood effect range of colours.

Master Oak UNILIN Panels

Achieving the lifelike appearance of oak in melamine and high-pressure laminate, Master Oak takes a revolutionary step forward in the world of decorative panelling. When specified as decorative chipboard, it also enjoys a construction from 100% recovered wood made possible by an innovative supply chain and production technologies.

Strata Technical Stone Marble Parkside Rezign

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Upholstery Collection Vescom

Working with a new type of yarn made entirely from recycled PET bottles from local sources, Vescom has developed four cost-effective, eco-friendly upholstery fabrics to meet the highest performance specifications for the contract market. Designed to work in unison are the four structures that make up the upholstery family –Wilson, a basic weave; Avon, a melange; Norfolk, a grid; and Harding, a twill.

Pico & Gem Embossed Acoustic Panels Woven Image

Pico and Gem are the latest additions to Woven Image’s Embossed Acoustic Panel collection. Embracing the trend towards tactile surfaces and three-dimensional textures, the panels interweave cutting edge design with sustainability and commercial performance.

Colab Table Agilita Path Humanscale

Agilita’s Colab Table was created to incorporate biophilia, power modules, phone charging and lighting with task furniture. A huge range of worktop options can be specified making use of recycled clothing, recycled CDs, woodworking waste and timber shavings, while plants contained within the Colab Table can be live, faux or preserved.

Embodying a shift in sustainable and inclusive office design, Path is comprised of approximately twenty-two pounds of recycled content, including ocean plastic, post-consumer plastic bottles, and post-industrial material. Building on the brand’s pioneering seating technology, Path uses the sitter’s weight and form to adjust perfectly to everybody without the need to operate complicated manual controls.

Join Collection Isomi

The new Join Collection comprises a desk and table designed by Isomi’s co-founder and design director Paul Crofts. Free flowing in form, Join Desk seamlessly combines linear machined timber with soft curves. Subtle shadows created by the chamfered edge profile add visual depth, highlighting and celebrating the natural variations of the oak, ash and walnut profiles.

Oberon Kinnarps

A functional and versatile series with many choices for tabletops, underframes, materials and colours, Oberon allows users to vary their working position and increase mobility – improving circulation. FSC® marked in many variants, Oberon is sourced from sustainable forestry.

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A space-saving table that can be folded to a 50cm width featuring a top 1050mm high, Timmy Libro H1050 is an even more versatile solution for standing or seated meetings that offers great flexibility and dynamics to different commercial environments. Timmy Libro is provided with the exclusive antishock system, designed and patented by Mara.

Answering to upcoming global office trends, Nowy Styl’s WithME chair provides effortless comfort and worry-free maintenance to every user in its adaptability to adapt to one’s weight without the need for adjustment. Useroriented, sustainable, collaborative – WithME is a chair that is ready to serve for decades.

Timmy Libro H1050 Mara WithME Nowy Styl

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Dams Furniture

Not only achieving record sales in 2021/22, Dams introduced Office Furniture Recycling Solutions (OFRS) this year, a dedicated internal recycling and re-manufacturing department. This allows customers to coordinate with Dam services so unwanted office furniture is removed and brought back to Dams.

EGGER

Leading manufacturer of wood-based materials, EGGER’s Biomass Plant at Hexham saves 71,000 tonnes of CO2 by burning usable wood residue, generating renewable energy to heat the thermal oil used by production and office buildings. Waste material is reused, either as raw material for board or, if no longer suitable, to fuel the energy plant.

Gerf lor

With a focus on sustainability in 2022, Gerflor launched the new Creation collection, a design-led LVT collection developed with an emphasis on recycled content, recyclability at the end of the life cycle and more options included to limit the need for adhesive.

Johnson Tiles

As the UK’s only large-scale manufacturer of ceramic tiles, Johnson Tiles’ design and development teams have achieved a strengthened portfolio of sustainable, British-made products, searching the world sourcing complementary collections of porcelain and ceramic floor and wall tiles.

Knauf Ceiling Solutions

Meeting coveted industry requirements, Knauf Ceiling Systems has achieved the environmental certification of BREEAM® and the LEED® Green Building Rating System for high performance, sustainability, and product transparency. These are complemented with recognition by HQE™ for the building lifecycle and DGNB, the global benchmark for sustainability.

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Orangebox

With continuous research and sustainable innovation at its heart, Orangebox’s Relationship Buildings™ project is the culmination of nearly 18 months of research and collaboration – beginning with the thought that the offices we’re designing for today are based on assumptions that only existed pre-pandemic.

Pedrali

Pedrali continues its “100% Made in Italy” philosophy and activities, presenting new collections and continuing on its path towards environmental sustainability. The company recently presented its first collections made from 100% recycled plastic: a new material made 100% from plastic material waste.

Soundtect

Acoustic solutions company Soundtect manufactures products using up to 70% recycled material, utilising post-consumer recycled PET plastic to create an array of fully recyclable acoustic solutions. Achieving a carbonneutral factory and shipping most of their panels by sea, Soundtect ensures that its carbon footprint is kept at minimum.

Tarkett UK

Tarkett has accomplished an impressive number of achievements this year. To name a few, Tarkett UK earned the EcoVadis Platinum medal, secured its highest ever rating from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), and developed its own recycling facility—making it the only UK manufacturer to offer safety floor recycling.

Your Workspace

Smart storage solutions providers Your Workspace have adding ground-breaking software and facial recognition technology to its product portfolio and developing a range of sustainable materials. Having recently joined the Gold Standard, the company aims to become carbon neutral by 2025 and has environmental policies in place to help them achieve this.

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A stone’s throw from Trafalgar Square, The Horse & Guardsman is a classic English pub with historical relevance. Decorating the space in rich, warm colours such as brown and dark red has helped create a homely atmosphere in which patrons can sit, chat, and relax for hours.

DesignLSM transformed The Alchemist’s original Spinningfields site into an atmospheric and immersive allday drinking and dining destination in line with the brand’s new direction. Its design is influenced by the search for the elixir of life and humanity’s continual fascination with our own origins and the universe, which is represented by striking and sculptural bespoke lighting features.

JOLIE has created a trans-continental journey for Kitten, Manchester’s striking new Japanese Izakaya and cocktail bar. The studio has infused the space with a sense of culture and destination-driven dining without drawing upon tired clichés, crafting a holistic and sensual environment that feels both fresh and contemporary, yet culturally ambiguous.

Design

Taking inspiration from fabulous alpine regions and the Munich Bier Halls, the Bavarian ‘party palace’ of Alberts Schloss has been brought to Birmingham following the success of Mission Mars’ original site in Manchester. Exclusive to Birmingham is Ludwig’s Tavern Bar with an impressive mezzanine balcony space to overlook the action.

Kitten Bar & Restaurant, Manchester JOLIE

Alberts Schloss, Birmingham JSA

The Horse and Guardsman, London Concorde BGW Group

The Alchemist, Manchester DesignLSM

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ōH Concept pop-up is a curated retail store dedicated to fostering a community of design lovers, coffee drinkers and conscious shoppers. Basing its concept on the principle of designing for disassembly, MONIKA’s placed importance on reusing and upcycling materials from the building’s previous use as a hair salon. An iroko wood table is the focal point of the store, constructed using shredded doors from the previous project.

Expanding to a second location in Manchester, Pollen’s Kampus site is home to the patisserie and large cafe area which flows out into the Kampus public gardens. Raw unrefined materials, repetition, layered materials, grained texture, clean industrial lines, linens, wholemeal tones and darker ‘caramelised crust’ accents pay homage to the baking process.

New Century, Manchester Sheila Bird Studio

Once the place that hosted the stars of 1960s pop culture, Sheila Bird Studio’s New Century revives a forgotten part of Manchester’s cultural heritage and catalyses the activation of the emerging NOMA neighbourhood. A new concept for the venue combines music, events, food, drink and education in one powerful ecosystem.

ōH Concept Store, Chester Openhome and MONIKA Studio

Pollen Bakery, Manchester NoChintz

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Hilton, Silverstone KKA Interiors

KKA imbues guests with the spirit of the site at Hilton Garden Inn’s unusual location at the Silverstone circuit, home to the British Grand Prix. The interior design celebrates movement and industry in material, colour and texture, juxtaposing curvilinear detailed ceiling planes and soft furnishings with hard edge metal, and metallic tones that reflect engineering and sport.

Radisson, Liverpool Koncept ID

Previously used as student accommodation, Koncept ID has transformed the iconic North Western Hotel, a ten storey, grade II listed 19th century building into Radisson RED, a stylish 201-bed boutique hotel. A raw aesthetic honours the building’s original features, softened with luxurious materials including marbles, velvets, leathers and sumptuous rugs to create a decadent feel.

No1 York Martin Hulbert Design

Martin Hulbert Design undertook the renovation and refurbishment of No1 York, an existing 39-bedroom hotel to create an atmospheric, unexpected whimsical design that doesn’t take itself too seriously. New features were added, including a spa inside the vaulted basement and a restaurant – while preserving many aspects of the original house.

Leonardo Hotels, Manchester NoChintz

NoChintz was appointed to deliver a new brand standard for Leonardo Hotels at the group’s first new-build hotel. The 275-room hotel with a bar, restaurant, lounge, gym and wellness suite has a holistic design approach, flowing the language of the external architecture, with its Jenga blocks and high-rise landscaping, through the interior spaces.

The Vices York The Vices

An immersive, sensory experience designed for an intimate crowd, The Vices York is a private hotel concept, comprising Three individually styled suites follow the complex narrative of gender, with design cues nodding to neutrality, hardness, and warmth and femininity.

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Pin Yard, Leeds 74

74 designed 2000 sq ft of ground floor amenity spaces at new build-to-rent residential development The Pin Yard for Grainger PLC. With design inspiration taken from th neigbouring Holbeck Urban Village, residential areas are combined with a double height entrance lobby, reception area, social co-working spaces and a fitness gym.

The Keel, Liverpool Jasper Sanders + Partners

Appointed by Allsop Letting and Management, Jasper Sanders + Partners re-establish this exciting 240-apartment rental destination, reducing the building’s carbon footprint and firmly establishing the legacy HMRC building as Liverpool’s most desirable Build-to-Rent development.

The Aspen, Leicester KKA Interiors

Comprising 250 bedrooms over six storeys, the Aspen in Leicester is the first part of a new tranche of student residences by CA Ventures, aspiring to provide wellness facilities and create community. Larger gathering spaces are typified by nooks, and spaces to dwell characterised by bespoke feature joinery that allows the residents to have intimacy whilst being part of a shared environment.

Novella, Salford SpaceInvader

SpaceInvader have completed the ground floor amenity space for Novella, a new-build residential development within the vibrant new riverside district of New Bailey. Novella combines striking design with luxury amenities, including 24-hour concierge and communal lounges, a podium roof garden, residents’ gym and wellness suite to build community and create the perfect work-life balance.

Bridle Works, Glasgow Stride Treglown

Stride Treglown have developed Bridle Works, a high-end, twenty-storey student accommodation development in Glasgow. The design narrative takes inspiration from Glasgow’s artistic heritage. Communal spaces create moments of intimacy and drama amongst calm areas of reflection as soft pastels juxtapose vivid cobalt blues – inspired by oriental blue and white china.

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Mid-pandemic, Bluesky Design were given the exciting opportunity to reimagine the 4,000 sq ft ground floor reception at 2 Hardman Street in the heart of Spinningfields, Manchester. The client wanted to break free from the corporate look and deliver a new vision to the marketplace by creating an ‘informal comfortable welcoming environment’.

Tasked with creating staff-focused sanctuaries for NHS workers to rest during break times, DAY Interiors refurbed the existing canteen space in Arrowe Park Hospital, turning it into a fresh and welcoming environment with a contemporary feel. In the staff changing rooms, genderspecific references were replaced with a unified and calming colour palette.

Forget Me Not is a purpose-built facility to deliver a safe, warm and hospitable environment for families in need of end-of-life care. Interiors feature subdued materials with a calming colour palette to create a welcoming place for families. Outside, a sensory garden provides a reflective space where children can be immersed in the scents, textures and colours of the outdoors.

Interiors

The first zero carbon workspace in Yorkshire, Ingo turned Yorkshire Housing Association’s 10,000 sq ft space into a hub for sustainability, innovation and technology. With the implementation of triple glazed windows, thick insulation and airtightness, the building retains most of its heat and does not require central heating – saving approximately £200,000 per annum.

Forget Me Not Centre, Lancaster FWP Yorkshire Housing at ‘The Place’, Leeds Ingo

2 Hardman Street, Manchester Bluesky Design

Bowman’s Restaurant, Wirral University Hospital DAY Architectural

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Produced in collaboration by MONIKA Studio and the OpenHome Group, the ōH concept store used ‘the principle of designing for disassembly’ with re-use and upcycling in its production. Previously a hairdresser salon, the ōH concept lifestyle pop-up contains reused items including hairdressers’ mirrors, glazed screen dividers and footrails, which add to the store’s overall creative appearance.

Copperas Hill, Liverpool John Moores University ID:SR Sheppard Robson

Akin to a bustling ‘marketplace’, Copperas Hill forms the focal point of the Estates Masterplan at Liverpool John Moores University. The interconnected £65m building blends social and flexible work settings by linking the Student Life Building and Sports Building, resulting in a range of learning, teaching, sports and student services facilities.

ōH Concept Store, Chester Openhome and MONIKA Studio

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University Centre Warrington 5plus Architects

5plus were commissioned to design a highly flexible, digital-centric student centre for the University of Chester’s Warrington base. The project provides an opportunity to integrate University activity in the heart of the town as part of a mixed-use development, alongside the new Market Hall and Council offices.

HMRC Belfast AECOM

The ambition for HMRC Belfast Erskine House was to change the perception of what Government and HMRC workplaces and community can be. Rich textiles and vibrant colours accompany muted finishes, and all sustainably sourced quality materials have been selected to enhance users’ daily experience visually, acoustically, and psychologically.

BDP worked closely with academics and end-users throughout the design and construction process of Manchester Metropolitan University’s new Institute of Sport to create user-centric, inspirational education and research environment and an exceptionally green building.

Originally built in the 1990s, Sheffield Hallam’s new university atrium constructs a transient space that is energy-efficient, links multiple buildings together and provides excellent spaces to study, meet and work. The harsh metallic and functional edges of the old space have been softened with wooden, slatted decoration, reducing maintenance costs and maximising material longevity.

Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport BDP

Sheffield Hallam University Atrium BDP

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The B Hive has been designed with both staff and students in mind to encourage interaction, collaborative working and a new campus wide culture. With a colour palette reflecting the university’s feature grade listed tile walls in their main reception space, DAY has implemented energy and a mature feel into the workspace.

Within an ongoing, £500m regeneration project transforming the city, City Hall is a transparent hub for community engagement and a catalyst for change. At the heart of the building, a striking steel staircase celebrates Sunderland’s history of making, and fosters connection between the different workspaces.

8,000 sq m building The Heart and Lung Research Institute was designed by the Fairhursts Design Group to accommodate world-class medical teams treating patients for chronic cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. With its gently curving facades and soft corners, the space’s organic form creates mystery around the building’s scale and is a striking addition to the Campus.

Akin to a bustling ‘marketplace’, Copperas Hill forms the focal point of the Estates Masterplan at Liverpool John Moores University. The interconnected £65m building blends social and flexible work settings by linking the Student Life Building and Sports Building, resulting in a range of learning, teaching, sports and student services facilities.

Heart & Lung Research Institute, Cambridge Fairhursts Design Group

Copperas Hill, Liverpool John Moores University ID:SR Sheppard Robson

The B Hive, Wrexham Glyndwr University DAY Interior Design City Hall, Sunderland FaulknerBrowns Architects

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Functioning as a well-equipped showroom to demonstrate the possibilities for Claremont’s clients and a comfortable and collaborative home for its growing team, the employeeled workspace includes a wide variety of features, materials, products and activity-based and hybrid settings and works as a cohesive design.

Eatock Design & Build has constructed a bespoke suite of production and flexible working facilities for video production and animation company Doodledo. The newly acquired basement office space in Manchester’s Deansgate has been transformed into a welcoming, creative space which boasts one of Manchester’s most high-tech colour grading suites.

Alderley Park, a development by Bruntwood SciTech, is currently undergoing a £247m investment to transform the campus. FDG’s refurbishment of No.19, 23D has provided a contemporary fit-out of ready-to-go labs, write-up spaces and world-class communal, breakout and collaboration spaces.

The reimagination of 1 Balloon Street has transformed a single occupier building to a multi-let property offering communal workspaces. Taking inspiration from the building’s rich heritage, the design concept reflects both John Sadlers’ hot air balloon and the property’s former use as the Co-operative bank. The new architectural façade and money once housed in the bank vaults influences the rich and bold use of colour.

Alderley Park, Macclesfield Fairhursts Design Group & Bruntwood SciTech

1 Balloon Street, Manchester Incognito

Claremont House, Warrington Claremont Group Interiors

Doodledo, Manchester Eatock Design & Build

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In creating their new post-pandemic home in Manchester, Cundall commissioned Jackson Downes to design an agile and cost-effective space that would bring staff together to collaborate and socialise, whilst also enhancing the industrial heritage of the Grade II listed former packing warehouse, Fourways House.

Yorkshire Stainless Steel, Rotherham Opus-4

Yorkshire Stainless Steel’s new office provides a central hub for people to collaborate and connect in, whilst fusing together their values as a business – with people at the core. Opus 4 was appointed to take the client on the journey to transform, create and deliver their vision.

The Astley Lounge has roots firmly in the pure ideals of mid-century modernism, reinvented through fresh thinking and audacious design, infusing the spirit of the era while form and function remains at the forefront. The space’s form takes cues from geometric shapes to neo-organic, psychedelic styles, from a period defined by experimentation and alternative ways of visualising.

Manchester-based agency J’adore Models sought a high impact environment that matched the calibre of its clients’ offices, while creating a space that excites. The inspired aesthetic for the workspace was “spacious and relaxed with a New York loft, industrial vibe”, punctuated by natural interventions, from planting and timber to natural materials such as wicker and rattan.

ABC Astley Lounge, Manchester Studio HART

J’adore Models, Manchester Workshop Design Studio

Cundall, Manchester Jackson Downes

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Prompted by the need to accommodate a rapidly growing workforce, Chameleon incorporated a flexible mix of work settings at Quickline Communications, while devising interiors with sustainability and Albion Mills’ original Victorian features at front of mind.

Nestled within a traditional business park, Incognito’s design of Brabners’ Lancashire office space is anything but, reflecting the evolution of the company’s working lifestyle. Intended to create an accessible environment that assists its users transition into agile working, the space is transformational and offers a flexible, collaborative space for all.

Purposely non-conformative, The Place sets out to be a blueprint for the ‘future of workspaces’. Each design choice has been carefully designed to create a workspace that is accessible to all, with layout, materials, textures, and furniture chosen to complement physical and neuro diversity.

ANNEX sets a new standard for Occupier experience and flexibility, presenting high-class facilities in an unparalleled blend of functional workspace and home comfort. Its ultramodern facilities blend nature and new-age design, setting the tone for a productive environment away from the formality and intensity of Manchester’s Spinningfields district.

Yorkshire Housing at ‘The Place’, Leeds Ingo Interiors

ANNEX, Manchester OBI

Quickline Communications, Hull Chameleon Business Interiors

Brabners Lancashire Incognito

Conceived to signify a clear shift to hybrid working, Grant Thornton commissioned Oktra to design an innovative ‘destination office’ at its new Birmingham space in which wellbeing permeates. A need for greater agility and flexibility shaped the design, to enable colleagues to reconnect in the office and drive more collaboration across teams.

Appointed for its third design project by recruitment firm Charlton Morris, ruCREATIVE was briefed to create a 10,000 sq ft hybrid workspace on the fourth floor at 34 Boar Lane in Leeds. The aesthetic and design elements of the interior work in harmony to bring a fresh and mindful experience in a world of flexible working.

11 York Street

SpaceInvader

Based on the concept of ‘Manchester’s forgotten garden’, Grade A new-build office 11 York Street’s interiors serve as a tranquil escape for tenants – in contrast with the city’s hustle and bustle. Angles and curves through the space offer a winding circulation to aid discovery and create a positive user journey.

Grant Thornton, Birmingham Oktra

Charlton Morris, Leeds ruCREATIVE

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Tate & Lyle UK, London

BDG architecture + design

BDG architecture + design brought a data-backed design approach to the refurbishment of Tate & Lyle’s Marble Arch headquarters, embracing its experience of global workplace strategy and design in multiple international markets. The result distils the best of the company’s current working culture while inspiring staff to embrace ‘the art of possible’.

AstraZeneca UK, London Ekho Studio

With an overarching ethos for a healthier, more comfortable and productive workspace, Ekho Studio implemented numerous settings across the 21,000 sq ft two-level floorplan at AstraZeneca’s new UK head office, including a variety of meeting rooms and space for yoga, pilates and mindfulness classes.

Now the home of flexible workspace provider, Clockwise Manchester, Linley House boasts the building’s heritage and a retro colour palette to represent the decade the building was constructed in. As well as serviced offices and meeting spaces FDG has refurbed changing facilities, a café and ample breakout rooms.

Brabners’ relocation to 100 Barbirolli has allowed the firm to embrace a new working style –an open, split-level headquarters designed to fully support hybrid and flexible working. Incognito’s modern design promotes connection and collaboration in an environment inspired by the history of Barbirolli Square, the Halle Orchestra and the concept of sound.

Linley House, Manchester Fairhursts Design Group

Brabners Manchester Incognito

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As a part-restoration and part-transformation, Jasper Sanders + Partners reworked the landmark building’s entrance vestibule and core circulation routes to this modernist landmark in the south of Manchester, with the aspiration of creating a premium, hotel-like office environment that reflected its historic significance, balanced with a contemporary edge.

The state-of-the-art Electric Vision design studio gave M1NT Studio a design brief to “think outside of the box” and repurpose a vacant building into a bold, dynamic and urban tech studio. The studio introduced a category B fitout over three floors, resulting in a captivating showcase of the Mahindra Brand, and a sense of fun.

AO.com, London OBI

OBI has designed the AO London Creative Hub to be an immersive brand experience that utilises AO’s key branding elements, such as by contrasting colours and oversized shapes to create a bold yet sophisticated outcome.

Manchester International Office Centre Jasper Sanders + Partners Mahindra Advanced Design Europe (M.A.D.E), Banbury M1NT Studio

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Chameleon reimagined McCain Foods’ UK headquarters with a focus on sustainability and employee wellness, with highlights including a new, scenic roof terrace complete with outdoor work pods to give workers added flexibility. Test kitchens and tasting rooms provide a mixture of work settings to support McCain’s flexible work policy and the integration of modern tech.

American sports gambling company FanDuel aimed to boost productivity, aid collaboration, create community and embrace hybrid working at its Edinburgh office, while conveying a strong story about its commercial sector. Using the sports business for inspiration, Claremont’s design plays on lots of sports references and detail including the layout, which is based on a dart board.

DAY Interior Design refurbished Ombudsman Services’ reception, a new gym facility with changing rooms, a bar, a new business suite, and a flexible conference space. The aim was to provide a welcoming and active environment for both task-driven and social activities, and to create an open and contemporary space to attract users whilst being practical.

Designed around the vision of its occupants, Incognito and Flexible Business Interiors reimagined PZ Cussons’ global HQ in just 12 months. On completion, the immersive brandled workplace demonstrates how complex customer and occupant engagements can be beautifully translated into a creative, future-proofed design.

Ombudsman Services, Warrington DAY Interior Design

PZ Cussons, Manchester Incognito

McCain Foods UK, Scarborough Chameleon Business Interiors

Fanduel, Edinburgh Claremont Group Interiors

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PlayStation, Liverpool MCM

Celebrating the iconic Playstation brand, MCM’s design concept for PlayStation referenced gameplay with an overarching intention to recreate a playful sense of intrigue that encourages discovery of the building and each other. With a previous office largely characterised by segregation, the studio was tasked with reimagining the status quo, focused on promoting cross-departmental collaboration outside of highly secure work areas.

Arrive: Blue Tower, Salford OBI

Designed by OBI, The Arrive scheme at Blue Tower is a mature and elegant workspace with the atmosphere of a boutique hotel. There was a strong focus on reusing as much of the existing fit-out as possible to meet environmental requirements. OBI achieved this with suites of varying sizes included throughout the scheme to allow tenants to grow and downsize as they feel necessary.

As a cultural and social link between China and the UK, Bupa was inspired by the symbolic nature of teawelcoming, comforting, and healing. Represented through the warm and natural colour palette, textures, graphics and biophilic design, employees coming together over a cup of tea to collaborate is what this project is all about.

Keen to create a ‘best in class’ regional head office in Manchester, Hilti commissioned No. 1 Circle Square to create a contemporary and considered head office with sustainability at the forefront of decision-making. The progressive workspace delivered enables Hilti to represent their vision and values to their customers and make their mark in Manchester city centre.

Bupa Hong Kong Ryder Architecture and Ward Robinson

Hilti, Manchester tp bennett

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The Tootal Buildings, Manchester AIS Interiors

Located down Manchester’s vibrant Oxford Road Corridor in Central Manchester is The Tootal Buildings – a pair of iconic grade II listed interlinked buildings. AIS Interiors transformed The Tootal Buildings to provide Manchester with a sustainable and modern workspace with quality amenities which protects the building’s extraordinary external architecture.

WPP Detroit BDG architecture + design

The Detroit campus for WPP by BDG architecture + design is the latest part of WPP’s commitment to restoring old, large industrial buildings in various cities around the world. During BDG’s renovation the building was re-envisioned, and the core was renewed to reveal much of the original structure.

BASE, Manchester Bridge Architects

BASE is an environmentally sustainable new-build office building at Manchester Science Park, designed by Bridge Architects, acting as a hub for Industry 4.0. The building has five floors of accommodation and office spaces, plus makerspace workshop capability – complemented with meeting rooms, a roof terrace, event space, and cycle hub.

Flutter, Dublin Claremont Group Interiors

Totalling 164,000 sq ft across seven floors, Flutter’s global HQ in Dublin proves how design can encourage people back into the workplace. The space includes a new statement glazed atrium, 110 meeting spaces, 227 agile spaces and 1070 seated positions and some creative ‘Flutter features’ –such as entering the building through a football tunnel onto a pitch.

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Delivered as part of the Riverside Sunderland masterplan for regeneration, City Hall celebrates the city’s heritage with local craftsmanship and design that is tailored to its context. Throughout the workspaces, rich collaborative settings are designed to encourage agile working and improved services for the community of Sunderland.

Cadent Gas, Coventry Resonate Interiors

Cadent’s new HQ building, designed by Resonate Interiors, showcases the energy firm’s transition from a public body to a private green-energy focused company. An impressive feature staircase constructed of steel and oak winds its way from the lower ground floor to the 2nd floor, connecting all levels.

Tyneside EE Contact Centre tp bennett

BT tasked tp bennett with revamping the current North Tyneside building with state-of-the-art technology and facilities, housing 1,500 EE workers. The new working environment had to support BT’s desire to offer the best customer experience and offer a flexible and truly unique workspace that is representative of a fast-paced workforce that nurtures employee wellbeing.

City Hall, Sunderland FaulknerBrowns Architects

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APM Design

Family-run APM Design has been delivering awardwinning designs for over 30 years. In addition to commercial interior design, APM offers in-house planning and heritage project expertise and their own in-house CIOB chartered construction project manager. 2021-2022 became APM’s busiest on record and would see them expand their team whilst posting record financial figures.

Claremont Group Interiors

This year has seen exponential growth for Warringtonbased interior design and fit-out business Claremont Group Interiors, including a global retainer with Flutter Entertainment PLC with the provision of designs for over 30 international projects. The recent renovation of their Warrington design studio has allowed Claremont to nurture a growing workforce and embody the ‘destination office’.

Collective Design

With a 100% conversion rate of enquiries into projects, 2022 has been a huge success for hospitality specialists Collective Design, hitting all goals, delivering on exceptional schemes and growing as a team. In the past 12 months, Collective has been able to grow its client portfolio extensively using the foundation of its existing clients.

Concorde BGW Group

Concorde BGW Group is a well-established design and build company predominantly working within the hospitality sector, delivering turn-key solutions to its clients. Appointed by recognisable leisure brands including Greene King, Pitcher & Piano and Harts Group, the company has a proud heritage of craft and a solid reputation for delivery.

DESIGN PRACTICE OF THE YEAR

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Dale Office Interiors

SME Dale Office Interiors aims to make a difference to its clients, people and environment through clever and inspiring office design and build. Over the past 12 months, the company has fundamentally changed its business direction and client base, focusing on how it can best support direct end-user organisations.

Ekho Studio

Ekho Studio is a fresh force in design, with a firm belief that design can completely transform people’s lives and environments. The studio aims to influence productivity and wellbeing through good practice, research and innovation – seeking out innovative materials, new ways to be sustainable and integrating local art and culture into the heart of each scheme.

Fairhursts Design Group

2022 sees FDG celebrating 126 years of designing inspirational buildings in which to work, learn, live, play and discover. From Ship Canal House, one of Manchester’s landmark commercial addresses designed by FDG in 1927 – to Project Atria, the new home of the Heart and Lung Research Institute at the University of Cambridge which opened in the summer of 2022.

Jasper Sanders + Partners

Jasper Sanders + Partners is a Manchester-based studio specialising in interiors, architecture, and design strategy. With expertise in student living, workplace and residential, the studio has developed schemes across an extensive range of high-profile projects both in the UK and Europe. Optimisation of space, end-user experiences, and sustainability are at the core of the studio’s ethos.

JOLIE

JOLIE brings a unique perspective to the world of commercial and hospitality interior design – embodying the millennial mindset to create spaces where all ages and backgrounds thrive. JOLIE’s research focuses on human behaviour related to sensory experience, collaborating with neuroscientists in each sensory field to carefully sources and combines materials and fragrances for each interior.

KKA

An award-winning national studio with its heart in Liverpool, KKA’s collaborative approach to design merges pragmatism with innovation, bringing fresh energy to every project with a considered and structured process. Borne of a passion for quality architecture and beautiful interiors, work undertaken is varied and extensive, blending practical solutions and innovative uses of space into clever, commercial design.

MONIKA Studio

Multidisciplinary platform MONIKA Studio aims to engage with other creatives and specialists to allow for meaningful design processes that lead to richer results. Actively collaborating with its Friend’s Circle to expand its horizons and push the boundaries of holistic design, this approach blurs the line of digital meets analogue.

tp bennett

Established nine years ago, tp bennett’s northern practice is a formidable team of talented and innovative designers and architects that share a common purpose: to create bespoke spaces that have a positive impact mentally, physically and environmentally. Working across diverse sectors from high-end retail and hospitality to residential and commercial workplaces enables a constant crosspollination of ideas and approaches.