Metropolis tops out 16.10.23

The Metropolis team recently celebrated the topping out of the building at a ceremony on site, with clients General Projects and Henderson Park Capital partners, and the project team.

The scheme extends and refurbishes the nine-storey Woolworth House on Marylebone Road, originally designed by Richard Seifert in 1955 as the UK headquarters of the US retailer F.W. Woolworth. Through carefully considered interventions, the proposals create over 174,000 square feet of office space, with external amenity space on every floor, alongside a stepped courtyard extension and rooftop office pavilions on level 8 and level 5 respectively. A central atrium space provides several internal amenity and break-out areas and supplies natural daylight deeper into the plan.

The design employs a low embodied carbon approach, with the majority of the existing building fabric being retained, including the load-bearing masonry facades, concrete frame, and masonry cores. The extension areas are being constructed from a lightweight steel and CLT hybrid. 

The project is due to complete in summer 2024.