ESA Selected Works

SELECTED PROJECTS LONDON

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WORKPLACE 6-57 71-77 Wigmore Street 112
The Bower 8 7-15 Bridle Path 116
40 Brighton Road
Croxley Green Businesss Park 14 RETAIL & HOSPITALITY 120-132
Pinehurst I & II 20 Stables Market 122
Stryker HQ 24 The Mall 124
Strata 30 Crown Gate Shopping Centre 126
Velocity 36 431-433 Oxford street 128
70 Wigmore Street 40 Riverbank 130
69 Grosvenor Street 44 Hercules House 132
149-151 Oxford Street 46
64 Wigmore Street 50 TRANSPORT 134-149
20 Noel Street 54 Green Park Station 136
BAE Systems HQ 56 Blackburn Bus Station 138
58 Tottenham Hale Station 140
MIXED USE Trento Railway Line Extension 142
The Gates 60-85 North Terminal Extension LGW 148
Oriana 62
Bartlett Square 70 EDUCATION 152-167
Buckmore Park 78 St. Silas Primary School 154
80 Witton Park Arena 158
RESIDENTIAL Island Free School 160
Mondial Tower 86-117 Crest Academy 162
Ascot Road 88 Engineering Faculty Cyprus University 166
Redhill One 90
1-2 Barrett Street 94 MASTERPLANNING 168-175
449-451 Oxford Street 96 Southall 170
264-267 Tottenhamcourt Road 98 Walthamstow Town Square 171
Walthamstow Town Square Masterplan The Gates 172
58-72 Marylebone Lane 100 Peckham Town Centre 173
50 Clarendon Road 102 Ascot Road 174
106 Nicosia 175
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ESA Architecture, are one of the UK’s leading Architectural Practices with offices in London, Manchester
and Cardiff. The company has a long and distinguished history and has been established for over 100
years.

We focus on providing excellent design and delivery services to our clients. Our reputation reflects our
continued success across many market sectors and working with a diverse range of clients including
blue chip owner-occupiers, local authorities, property developers, major contractors and private
individuals. These relationships result in buildings in a variety of sectors including; commercial offices
and HQ’s, residential, retail, heritage, hospitality, transport, education, interiors, mixed use schemes,
urban design and masterplanning.

Our design philosophy is about the synthesis of multiple inputs, with emphasis on history, culture and
location, appropriate scale and proportion. This facilitates the production of context specific projects,
which are ordered spacially with careful consideration of building use and program and visually with
carefully chosen materials and articulation. The resulting architecture is informed by the past, but does
not replicate it and is aware of current trends, though does not follow them, to produce an architecture
that aspires to be relevent now and into the future.

Our work is steered by an awareness of our clients’ market aspirations, budgets and development
programmes. We help them to address their needs through creative, innovative yet viable solutions,
which draw on our skill-base gained from national and international property experience and our multi-
sector built track record.

Our clients benefit from: thoughtful brief formulation; design led architectural solutions; strategic project
planning; strong delivery management; advanced computer modelling.

Based within the city of London at 65 Gresham Street the esa studio forms part of Capita Real Estate
Projects (REP) and we are based in the City of London with projects across both the public and private
sectors. REP contains Real Estate, Planning, Engineering and Landscape teams as well as Architecture.

REP provides a real breadth of professional services and expertise, working with clients to transform
and modernise their businesses. We are a division of Capita plc, the UK’s leading provider of integrated
professional services to many aspects of the UK’s commercial and public life.

Therefore ESA is able, when appropriate, to draw upon the wider skills of the Group for coordinated
consultancy services in the areas of town planning, landscape, engineering, project management and
cost planning.

ESA’s current directors have extensive experience in the commercial architecture sector with the core
team having worked together for over 15 years.

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Capability : Concept • Desgin • Delivery

ESA have been designing and delivering buildings in central London
for over 40 years. As a practice the breadth of our capability is well
illustrated in the collection of projects flanking the Oxford Street
and Tottenhamcourt Road junction. These have been designed for
various clients and cover diverse sectors including retail, residentail,
commercial ofiices and leisure.
The buildings include the YMCA on Tottenhancourt Road, completed
in 1977 and the project that necessitated Elsworth Sykes Architects
(now ESA) to set up a London office; 264-267 Tottenhamcourt Road
a mixed use scheme combining restaurant use on the ground floor
with offices and roof top residential above; the recently completed
Oriana project, a complex mixed use scheme on an island site
bounded by Oxford Street, Hanway Street and Tottenhamcourt
Road; and 25-27 Oxford Street a retail and commercial office
scheme shortly to start the construction phase.
As well as liasing with two London planning authorities, Westminster
and Camden, these schemes involved working with listed buildings;
retained facades; complex rights of light envelopes; building over
London Ungerground tunnels; and combining traditional and
contemporay architectural forms and materials. In our role as lead
consultant, we have facilitated the design and delivery of a collection
of buildings that preserve the historic fabric of these famous London
streets and create new complementary architecture to strengthen
the quality of this area into the future.

View of Oxford Street and Tottenhamcourt Road with ESA projects highlighted

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25-27 Oxford Street Project Oriana YMCA Tottencourt Road 264-267 Tottencourt Road
ESA 2019 ESA 2010-2018 ESA 1977 ESA 2008

Street level view of Tottencourt Road and Oxford Street junction

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The Bower

Location
Stockley Park

Client
Clearbell / Rockspring

Status
Completed 2016

Size
140,000 sq ft

Our back-to-frame redevelopment of this 1980s office building within
Stockley Park, regarded as one of Europe’s premium established
business park locations, is about to complete on site.
‘The Bower’ is 140,000 sq ft of ‘Grade A’ office accommodation,
built to uncompromising design standards and aiming to achieve a
BREEAM environmental rating ‘excellent’.
The site forms part of the original first phase of this well-established
Headquarter location to the West of London and sits within a cluster
of ‘iconic’ buildings designed by well-known architects.

Our proposal revitalises and extends the original building by
rationalising the internal layout, creating a clean highly flexible
workspace whilst delivering some of largest floor plates in the
Thames Valley.
The building itself has been given a new architectural form and
language arranged around a re-imagined central street which
connects to a fabulous new public piazza at the building’s entrance.
This allows the building to re-connect with the surrounding, sensitively
upgraded existing mature landscaping.

Evening view of entrance canopy

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Aerial view across Stockley Park with The Bower centre left

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Floor plate extensions create wings to the building envelope that generate a sense of enclosure and define the entrance in conjuction with the perforatted canopy

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Central atrium stair linking all floors

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reception Top lit circulation stair

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Evenuing view from under the entrance canopy

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40 Brighton Road

Location
Brighton Road, Sutton

Client
Subsea 7

Status
Completed 2017

Size
14,000 sq m

This 14,000sqm building near Sutton train station, for energy
infrastructure company Subsea 7, has commenced on site. The new
HQ offices will allow the business to grow yet remain in the town.
The brief asked for office space, extensive breakout areas,
presentations suites, training rooms and a fully functioning kitchen /
restaurant to accommodate over 700 staff.
ESA have developed a design that will also provide a dynamic
workplace environment within a building that will contribute to the
town centre regeneration.
A BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’ has been targeted with environmental
measures that include PV cells, brown roofs and lighting reduction
measures.
The design team includes engineers Price + Myers, Hoare Lea and
planning consultants Vail Williams.

The muliti-functional atrium space

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Evening view from Brighton Road

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Brighton Road elevation

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Office areas adjacent to atrium

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feature structural steelwork and circulation stairs The muliti-functional atrium space

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Feature steelwork and interior views through circulation areas

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Croxley Green Business Park

Location
Croxley Green Business Park

Client
Columbia Threadneedle / Bell Hammer

Status
Completed 2017

Size
140,000 sq ft

ESA has completed phase one of two new office buildings located
close to the entrance of Croxley Green Business Park in Watford,
Hertfordshire.
Our client’s brief was to prepare designs for ‘Grade A’ office buildings
alongside new landscaping that would signal the next stage of the
evolution of the business park and look to meet the requirements of
the emerging local office market.
The cluster of buildings are designed as a unified architectural form
and language arranged around an exemplary landscaped setting
with substantial entrance and drop off areas to each building.
The project involves the full demolition of two outdated buildings and
will seek to improve the aesthetic appearance of the business park
as well as enhancing the employment opportunities on the site.

Polished reception canopy

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View approaching entrance

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reception and circulation stair entrance and reception

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Proposed amenity hub

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Pinehurst I & II

Location
Farnborough Business Park

Client
HEREF / XLB

Status
Completed 2015

Size
10,120 sq m

ESA architects were instructed in 2013 to design new offices on the
Farnborough Business Park, just outside the Hampshire town.
The master plan proposal is for four separate office buildings provid-
ing ultimately a total of 24,280 sq m of contemporary office space
with a similar architectural form and material language. The first two
connected buildings have now been completed.
We have worked closely with the design team including ‘Planit’ land-
scape consultants to prepare a strident design that works with the
character set by this established business park adjacent to the air-
port.
The scheme received a BCO award for Best Commercial Office in
the SW region and was highly commended in the national awards
for 2016.

View through historic airship hanger

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View showing architectural collonade which orientates the two buildings in relation to the historic airship hanger on axis

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Buildings viewed from Pinehurst Road

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Buildings viewd on axis from the historic airship hanger

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Views of reception atrium and circulation stairs

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Northern elevation

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Stryker HQ

Location
Farnborough Business Park

Client
Stryker (UK) Limited

Status
Completed 2011

Size
10,000 sq m

This 10,000sqm building for medical manufacturer and supplier
Stryker’s UK office and logistics operations was completed in 2012.
The brief required both inter-connected office space and logistical
distribution facilities on the same site. This functional and cost
effective solution stacks the accommodation in one unified building
which also houses a 150-cover staff restaurant, exhibition, teaching
and product demonstration facilities.
A BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’ has been achieved with low energy
measures that include a biomass heating system and lighting
reduction measures.

Reception

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Evening view approaching entrance

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Internal atrium with staff dining facilities

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Triple height reception and circulation stair

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View from Hambridge Road

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Feature entrance glazing and lights Internal aatrium

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Strata

Location
Staines, Middlesex

Client
Bell Hammer / LIM

Status
Completed 2014

Size
8,000 sq m

The deep refurbishment of this existing office building in the centre
of Staines has allowed the new building now known as ‘Strata’ to
become a visually unique HQ building with over 80,000 sq ft of
floorspace.
The existing building was a typical 1980’s office with 3-storey
elevations of glazed curtain walling and a distinctive horizontal brick
banding punctuated by the solid brick staircases and pitched roofs.
ESA’s design approach was to change the dated character of the
building by removing the pitched roofs and the heavy brickwork
whilst only retaining the underlying structure, plinth and general
massing.
The horizontal configuration of the existing building provides the
inspiration for the design approach and consciously eschews the
popular “glass box” approach to commercial office design.

reception

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view of 11m cantilevered entrance canopy

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View of triple height entrance lobby

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Elevated evening view showing internal/external lighting

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Velocity

Location
Brooklands, Weybridge

Client
Exton / Rockspring

Status
Completed 2015

Size
11, 250 m2

‘Velocity’ is a BREEAM Excellent HQ office development located
within the boundaries of the world famous Brooklands racetrack in
Surrey.
The scheme design and delivery required close collaboration
with the local council, Mercedes Benz, the Environmental Agency
and English Heritage to deliver a building that was sensitive to its
surroundings and the historic context of the racetrack but that also
embodied the bold and visionary spirit of Brooklands.
The project delivered an dynamic and responsive HQ workplace
environment that exceeded the clients aspirations whilst creating
future flexibility to respond to the needs of the shifting property
market.
The building was successfully let to LG as their UK headquarters.

View of buiding entrance

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Building viewed from car park looking on axis to entrance

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Feature entrance glazing and lights Internal aatrium

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Main buiding facade with raked buiding ‘prow’

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70 Wigmore Street

Location
London
Client

Howard de Walden
Status

Completed 2011
Size

2,000 sq m

Along with our in-house town planning team, we have completed
this new-build and partially retained facade scheme on Marylebone’s
Wigmore Street. The building sits within a conservation area and a
predominantly Victorian urban setting.
The 20,000 sq ft building, which comprises offices and retail show-
rooms, acts as a ‘gateway’ to Marylebone Village. It is located on a
triangular block on the north side of Wigmore Street at its junction
with Marylebone Lane and the pedestrian passage of Jason Court.
The new steel-framed building unites seven original addresses, pro-
viding generous common floorplates with flexibility of use despite
their irregular shape. The provision of a single circulation core has
enabled a reorganisation of the ground floor spaces appropriate to
destination retail and cafe uses.

View south along Marylebone Lane

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View north from Wigmore Street

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69 Grosvenor Street

Location
London
Client

Grosvenor
Status

Completed 2015
Size

2,260 sq m

ESA architects have completed No. 69 Grosvenor Street, a six sto-
rey period ‘townhouse’ in Mayfair. As well as the stuccoed frontage
to Grosvenor Street, the building also has a composed frontage to
the rear of Grosvenor Hill. The building is unlisted and sits within the
Mayfair Conservation Area.
The proposals are mainly for the interior of the buildings, the inner
courtyard buildings and the courtyard itself. The proposed works are
largely keeping within the existing massing, other then a small exten-
sion to the inner courtyard buildings, to help rationalise the internal
environment.
The inner courtyard was in a poor, incoherent state, thus it has been
demolished and infilled with a new glass ‘link’ building with a new
glass roof light to bring light into the refurbished basement areas.
The project aims to introduce a new concept of ‘boutique’ offices fit
for such a prestigious location.

Grosvenor Street facade

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Renovated first floor office

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new building mass articulated in glass to contrast with historic masonary fabric Stair detail

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