Civic Trust Regional Finalist 2025 07.01.25

Arthur Stanley House has been selected as a Regional Finalist in the 2025 Civic Trust Awards and will now be considered for a National Award, with winners announced in April 2025.

Located within the Charlotte Street Conservation Area, this project has reinvented a decaying 1960s block in Fitzrovia, London. It was originally designed by TP Bennett Architects, part of the Middlesex Hospital estate, as a centre specialising in physiotherapy with wards and consultation rooms on the upper floors and a hydrotherapy pool in the basement. The hospital trust relocated in 2005 leaving the building vacant and in decline. The project has reinvented it to provide eight floors of modern office accommodation and a new residential building along Tottenham Mews.

The new scheme, which retains more than 70% of the existing fabric, has refurbished the brickwork, added depth to the façade with generous stone reveals, and replaced the existing windows with new high quality triple glazing meeting modern standards while maintaining slim profiles typical of the Fitzrovia character.

The design of Arthur Stanley House celebrates the original building alongside its 21st century additions and complements the conservation area which in parts is fragmented with post-war and recent large-scale developments interspersed with lower scale, historic terraces.

New and old is left exposed within the floorplates to represent the building’s development over a 60-year period, repurposing it for a new generation by creating a design led space for the next 60 years. Additionally, the characterful floorplates give a uniqueness not normally found in commercial floor space.