New Scotland Yard

London. 2016

  • Project Details
  • Completion: 2016
  • Clients: Metropolitan Police Service and MOPAC

AHMM’s design for New Scotland Yard is a radical remodelling and extension of the Curtis Green Building, a 1930s building on the Thames Embankment, which was an earlier home of the MPS. The core objectives of the brief were to create modern, flexible and efficient office environments, extend available floor space and facilitate agile working with more interaction between staff. The design has transformed the building with the addition of an elegant curved glass entrance pavilion and rooftop pavilions and a reworking of the existing accommodation. The scheme has expanded the building’s floor area from 8,691sqm to around 12,000sqm through extensions to the rear, roof and front concourse. The contemporary design of these complements and enhances the architectural features of the original building and the materials, colours and proportions of neighbouring Whitehall buildings. Inside the building, AHMM has created a flexible office environment to facilitate collaboration and interaction. The rooftop extension provides multi-use conference space and terraces, and is illuminated to give presence at night, symbolising the 24/7 nature of the building along with its civic purpose. A brick ‘carpet’ in the landscape outside the entrance references the distinctive striped brickwork of the neighbouring Norman Shaw North building, while the Eternal Flame has been set within a contemplation pool south of the entrance pavilion.

Awards

AJ retrofit Award, best office over 10,000m2 2017 Building Magazine Project of the Year 2017 NLA Conservation and retrofit - commendation 2017 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award 2017 RIBA London Region Award 2017 RIBA National Award 2017


Client: Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)


MainContractor: BAM
 

Structural Engineer: Arup
 

M&E Consultant: Arup/BAM
 

Cost Consultant and Project Manager: Arcadis
 

Landscape Architect: Gillespies


Fire Engineer: Arup


Daylighting Consultant: Gordon Ingram Associates


Acoustic Consultant: Arup
 

Transport Consultant: Arup


Planning Consultant: DP9


Space Planning: Haverstock


Approved Building Inspector: Butler + Young
 

Façade Engineer:Arup


Lighting Designer:Arup


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