ESA Selected Works

Residential stair detail

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264-267 Tottenhamcourt Road

Location
London
Client

London & Regional
Status

Completed 2008
Size

12 apartments, 50 000 ft2 commercial

ESA architects, acting for developer London & Regional, completed
a mixed-use urban building at 264-267 Tottenham Court Road, Lon-
don W1. The overall scheme included new-build offices as well as 12
niche residential dwellings at rooftop level and away from the busy
streets below.
The site is adjacent to the listed Dominion Theatre and the rooftop
courtyard at the centre of the dwellings has the dramatic backdrop
of the iconic Centre Point to the south. The dwellings are compact,
efficient, modern and functional and remain completely hidden from
Tottenham Court Road and the city below.
Accommodation is formed into a series of duplex units as well as
level apartments and is accessed via a new lift and stair off the adja-
cent Great Russell Street.
The project included a facade design by Quinlan & Francis Terry LLP
Architects.

Roof top residential units adjacent to Centrepoint tower

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Roof top residential courtyard

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Walthamstow Town Square Masterplan

Location
Walthamstow

Client
Capital & Regional

Status
Consented

Size
1.5 hectares, 500 residential units

ESA have been appointed to design Phase Two of Walthamstow’s
established Selborne Walk Shopping Centre.
A residential and retail-led master plan and architectural design
proposal adjacent to a large shopping complex in a regenerated part
of east London. The context for the site is changing as the area
becomes a popular place to live and raise families with the benefit of
excellent transport connections to central London. The scheme sits
adjacent to Walthamstow tube, rail and bus station.
The project involves a retail extension, the redesign of the public
square to the immediate east and two residential towers which
accommodate approximately 500 residential units.
The proposed design of the retail elevation, lining the town
square, seeks to incorporate traditional east London ‘high street’
elevational patterns and classical civic building character unified with
contemporary detailing and materials.

Retail incorporating residential apartments above with residential towers beyond

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View west across new town square

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View east across new landscaped public square

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View across town square to new Mall entrance street

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58 - 72 Marylebone Lane

Location
London

Client
Howard de Walden Estate

Status
Completed 2017

Size
14 apartments, 4 retail units

A small but complex project, marrying retained Victorian fabric
with new steel framed composite-deck construction, substantially
re-building the rear facades whilst retaining existing party wall lines.
Ingenuity and attentiveness was required throughout the design
and construction phases in order to maximise ceiling heights in
these laterally-arranged but fully-serviced flats, such as to maintain
demanding performance levels of the thermal envelope and acoustic
separation.

The planning of the apartments across the party walls and levels
has led to providing functional bedrooms and maximising the kitchen
and living spaces. ‘Island’ kitchens have efficiently dealt with low cill
heights of existing windows, and at fourth floor level the mansard
roof profiles have been fully expressed internally. An eclectic mix
of 1,2 and 3 bedroom apartments, two as inverted duplexes, has
created a contemporary but characterful family of apartments which
were let immediately.

Pentons hardware store remained trading throughout the project.
The new retail units will initially be let as pop-ups whilst public
realm works are undertaken, before a longer-term mix of tenants
are welcomed. This southern end of Marylebone Lane to Wigmore
Street is seen as a prominent gateway to Marylebone, and ESA
have been privileged to deliver this alongside the two flanking
developments for the Howard de Walden Estate.

View north down Marylebone Lane with completed project on the left

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Roff level apartment Typical bathroom arrangement

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50 Clarendon Road

Location
Watford, Hertfordshire

Client
Vedose Ltd

Status
Constented 2018

Size
100 apartments, 8,450 m2 commercial

Planning consent was recently granted for 48-50 Clarendon Road,
Watford on behalf of ESA’s client, Vedose Ltd. The design brief was
to provide a high quality, contemporary mixed use scheme includ-
ing 8,450sqm of flexible office space and 100 residential units (67%
private and 33% affordable) across the development that maximises
the building envelop within the constraints imposed by the 1.38 acre
site. It will include a new public realm, communal open space, private
amenity space, play space and a biodiverse roof.

View south down Clarendon Road

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View north down Clarendon Road

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Facade detail of St. John’s Road residential block

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View west along St. John’s Road showing the eastern residential block facing on to the Estcourt conservation area

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71-77 Wigmore Street

Location
London
Client

F & C ltd
Status

Completed 2017
Size

14 apartments, 4 Retail units

The client’s design brief included optimising this prime West End site,
rationalising the existing uses and configuration to provide a high
quality, mixed use, sustainable development. Following Clients’ brief
the scheme comprises:
• High quality flexible A1,A3,A4 space arranged over basement and
ground floors within 71-73 Wigmore Street including the current
basement winebar beneath St Christophers place retail.
• A1 retail space arranged over basement and ground floor within 75
Wigmore Street; maximising active frontage to St. Christpher’s Place
and Wigmore Street.
• Retention of the existing restaurant at basement and ground floor of
No.77 Wigmore Street retaining only the facade above.
• Maximised flexibility and clear frontage to St. Christopher’s Place.
• Enhance visibility and prominence of the entrance to St. Christpher’s
Place.
• High quality, private residential accommodation from levels 1-4
across the plots 71-77 Wigmore Street. Providing a planning policy
compliant mix of unit sizes.

First floor apartment interior

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Facade facing Wigmore Street

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Stair detail for penthouse apartment Stair details for penthouse apartments leading through opening room light to garden terrace

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Stair details for penthouse apartment Penthouse kitchen and dining

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7-15 Bridle Path

Location
Watford, Hertfordshire

Client
Drax Investments

Status
Planning

Size
80 apartments

The client’s design brief included optimising this prime West End site,
rationalising the existing uses and configuration to provide a high
quality, mixed use, sustainable development. Following Clients’ brief
the scheme comprises:
• High quality flexible A1,A3,A4 space arranged over basement and
ground floors within 71-73 Wigmore Street including the current
basement winebar beneath St Christophers place retail.
• A1 retail space arranged over basement and ground floor within 75
Wigmore Street; maximising active frontage to St. Christpher’s Place
and Wigmore Street.
• Retention of the existing restaurant at basement and ground floor of
No.77 Wigmore Street retaining only the facade above.
• Maximised flexibility and clear frontage to St. Christopher’s Place.
• Enhance visibility and prominence of the entrance to St. Christpher’s
Place.
• High quality, private residential accommodation from levels 1-4
across the plots 71-77 Wigmore Street. Providing a planning policy
compliant mix of unit sizes.

View across Station Road looking north east

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Scheme viewed from Bridal Path Proposal viewed from Watford Junction Station

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Stables Market

Location
Camden, London

Client
Stanley Sidings

Status
Completed 2010

Size
20,000 m2

ESA have completed this prestigious project in Camden. What we
see at the market today is the remnants of a vast rail and canal
goods interchange that fed London from the northern towns, then the
heartland of England’s industrial production.
The Lock and Stables area was an increasingly complex interchange
from rail to canal from the 1820s onwards. The goods arriving by
rail from the north were carried by horse, through a vast shunting
yard that extended along the Chalk Farm Road to the Roundhouse.
This unique setting has formed the context of the evolving market for
30 years and the new buildings are the first purpose-built structures
on the site, the markets having previously inhabited the retained
Victorian infrastructure.
The new building was conceived as an ‘open flexible infrastructure’
that would allow incoming retailers to ‘modify’ and tailor the shops
that slot into and around the framed structure.

View from Tom Dixon’s offices located in phase one ofthe scheme

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Evening view from the Old Horse Hospital

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The Mall

Location
Walthamstow

Client
Capital & Regional

Status
Completed 2015

Size
15,000 m2

ESA have worked with The Mall for many years now and have been
advising on elements of this shopping centre in north east London
over that period. This refurbishment of the mall areas represents the
latest and most comprehensive intervention.
ESA have successfully completed the full internal refurbishment of
the “The Mall” Walthamstow – transforming the dated 1980s centre
into a contemporary retail shopping environment.
The themed refresh design utilizes a sculptural ribbon to playfully
tie the new works together - including repeatable but randomized
elements that tenants can customize to their requirements with
new feature retail facades, flooring, ceilings and a dramatic lighting
scheme to highlight the ribbon & shading effects.

View through refurbished Mall

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Light and ceiling ‘ribbon’ details

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Crown Gate Shopping Centre

Location
Worcester

Client
Crown Estate

Status
Completed 2010

Size
20,000 m2

A retail refurbishment scheme within the historic market town of
Worcester. The Crown Gate shopping centre within Worcester’s
town centre was originally developed on two physically separate
sites.
In response to the context of Chapel Walk and its surroundings, ESA’s
approach has been to create a series of subtle yet contemporary
interventions which enhance the built environment, improve public
interface and create a cohesive and modern scheme design.
The refurbishment is part of a larger masterplanning exercise of the
city centre and includes new paving, a new comprehensive lighting
solution, a new covered mall, new canopies and entrances and
elements of public art incorporated throughout.
The scheme is highly pro-active in the promotion and implementation
of sustainable development and as such it has been designed
to provide a quality whilst improving efficiency and reducing the
environmental impact of the proposals.

Completed scheme showing new floor and ceiling finishes

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Completed scheme showing new floor finishes and feature ceiling detail

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431-433 Oxford Street

Location
London
Client

Tribeca Holdings
Status

Completed 2016
Size

5,000 m2

ESA were appointed by Tribeca Holdings to undertake a long term
plan, in phases, to renovate all shop frontages and lift the quality
of the occupiers and retailers, consequently improving the street
frontage and contributing to the overall improvement of the Oxford
Street Area in line with the ambitions of Westminster Council and the
New West End Company.
Further to this ESA completed a refurbishment and change of use
from an office to 6 residential apartments in a Victorian terraced
building on Oxford Street. This project is part of a bigger scheme
including retail and commercial accommodation.
The upper levels are to be converted fully into larger more compliant
residential apartments above first floor level and the whole block is
refreshed making its survival for a further century more sustainable.

View of Balderton Street and Oxford Street corner

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View across Oxford Street

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Riverbank

Location
London
Client

Park Plaza
Status

Completed 2016
Size

558 rooms

ESA were tasked to add another further floors to the exiting building
and a complete reclad to give the building an appearance appropriate
to its riverside location with stuuning views. The result; an additional
six floors of guest accommodation and 155 new bedrooms, which in
turn takes the total new room count to 558.
The design team explored in detail the opportunities and constraints
of the existing building, the viability of the scheme and progressed
a design solution enhancing the original building and providing an
additional number of rooms that surpassed the clients expectations.
This was achieved by relocating and rationalising the roof top plant
and a more efficient use of the existing internal voids beneath the
roof planes which led to an increase in the number of rooms located
internally within the plan.

View of Balderton Street and Oxford Street corner

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View across Oxford Street

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Hercules House

Location
Waterloo, London

Client
Park Plaza

Status
Completed 2016

Size
494 rooms

ESA are on site with a back-to-frame and extended redevelopment
of a former 1960s office building which will see it transformed into
a vibrant full-service hotel with restaurant, bar conference and spa
facilities.
Through a collaborative design and development process the team
has achieved a contemporary, high quality, sustainable, publicly ac-
cessible design that interacts with its context and will provide a cata-
lyst for future regeneration and development of this area of Waterloo
whilst providing local employment opportunities.
Hercules House has been designed to form its own distinctive char-
acter and feel, and whilst being recognizable as a Park Plaza Hotel
it will have identity that relates, integrates and invigorates the local
area. It provides 494 contemporary new hotel rooms, a new desti-
nation restaurant and bar, café, spa and gym with swimming pool,
providing the ideal South Bank base for exploring the city.

Interior view

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Dusk view of entrance

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Green Park Station

Location
London
Client
TFL
Status

Completed 2012
Size

5,000 m2

ESA were appointed by Tribeca Holdings to undertake a long term
plan, in phases, to renovate all shop frontages and lift the quality
of the occupiers and retailers, consequently improving the street
frontage and contributing to the overall improvement of the Oxford
Street Area in line with the ambitions of Westminster Council and the
New West End Company.
Further to this ESA completed a refurbishment and change of use
from an office to 6 residential apartments in a Victorian terraced
building on Oxford Street. This project is part of a bigger scheme
including retail and commercial accommodation.
The upper levels are to be converted fully into larger more compliant
residential apartments above first floor level and the whole block is
refreshed making its survival for a further century more sustainable.

View od Balderton Street and Oxford Street corner

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View across Oxford Street

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Blackburn Bus Station

Location
Blackburn

Client
Blackburn & Darwen Borough Council

Status
Completed 2016

Size
1 200 m2

The Brief was to design a landmark building to increase local,
public transport patronage. Our design response engages with the
streetscape and context, responding to the pedestrian and vehicular
flows and is planned to ensure the surrounding development sites
are future-proofed.

The linear concourse plan is arranged to ensure passengers step off
buses, straight onto the door step of the adjacent shopping centre
which subsequently prompted the owners of the shopping centre to
carve up shop fronts to take advantage of the increased footfall. The
constrained and narrow plan strengthens the vista along Ainsworth
St, improving connectivity with the hinterland whilst ensuring strong
visual connections between the train station and bus station.

The composition of the sculptural canopy draws inspiration from
Blackburn’s historic weaving looms; constructed using lightweight,
self-finished and durable GRP. Undulating loops appear pulled
down from the canopy to reveal glazed openings which flood the
concourse with natural light. The loops modulate the scale of the
concourse, creating a rhythm of peaks and troughs. Six of the loops
are stretched to the ground to support the 90m canopy.

Simple full height perimeter glazing disappears into the ground and
soffit blurring the boundary between public realm and concourse;
both paved in robust natural stone. Above this a projecting canopy
edge is unashamedly deep to maximise the visual impact of the
structural solution.

People now gather at what was once a deserted street and the light
spilling out from the concourse enlivens the area at night promoting
safe passage along Ainsworth st.

View od Balderton Street and Oxford Street corner

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View across Oxford Street

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Tottenham Hale Station

Location
North London

Client
Hochtief

Status
Construction

Size
£18 million

ESA led the successful Capita Multidisciplinary Design Team support
to Hochtief’s successful appointment in 2016 to deliver the detailed
design and construction of a significant extension to the existing
Victoria Line station. The design received had been completed in
2013 and changes in operations and standards required the concept
design to be revisited completely within the constraints of a Planning
Approval received in 2014.

View od Balderton Street and Oxford Street corner

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View across Oxford Street

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Trento Railway Line Extension

Location
Trento, Italy

Client
Competition

Status
Shortlisted in competition

Size
3 Stations and river bridge
ESA worked as project lead in conjunction with Capita’s multi-
discinplinary design team Project to development of concept design
of new 30km passenger railway for Linea Azzura, Railway Line Tione
– Trento, through mountains to north of Lake Garda, Trento, Italy with
three new stations and a river crossing bridge.

View of the platform at Ponte Arche

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View approach the proposed station at Tione

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Evening view of the Ponte Arche Station proposal

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View from plaza opposite the proposed Arco Station

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Proposed river bridge crossing

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Proposed river bridge crossing

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North Terminal Extension LGW

Location
Gatwick Airport

Client
Costain / Morgan Sindall / Gatwick Airport Ltd

Status
Completed 2012

Size
£125 million
The project entailed the major expansion of the North Terminal
Extension (NTX) with the the aim to increase its capacity from 14.7
to 25 million passengers annually.

View od Balderton Street and Oxford Street corner

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View across Oxford Street View across Oxford Street

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Stair details for penthouse apartments leading through opening room light to garden terrace

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