NatWest at 250 Bishopsgate
An interior precedent featuring stacked, dark cantilevering volumes suspended inside a glazed atrium, useful for corporate lobby and multi-story interior interventions.
- What we like about this project
- Floating geometric light fixtures inside each suspended module echo the exterior frame geometry.
Materials
- painted-steel
- glass
- stone-flooring
- wood
Visual identifiers
- suspended-modules
- atrium-glazing
- dark-cantilevers
- reception-desk
Style tags
- contemporary
- corporate
- monumental
Visual tags
- atrium
- commercial-interior
- modular-volumes
- multi-story
- suspended-structure
- Geometry
- Stacked, shifted dark-faced rectilinear volumes cantilever within a monumental multi-story atrium beneath a glazed diagrid roof.
- Structural guess
- Suspended steel truss framework supporting modular architectural pods within an existing atrium structure.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; the suspended modules span multiple stories above a spacious reception lobby floor.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight from the overhead glass atrium ceiling combined with warm interior artificial pendant illumination.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek and commanding, balanced by the diffuse clarity of natural overhead light.
- Environmental context
- Large commercial indoor atrium or concourse with surrounding multi-level circulation galleries.
- Spatial experience
- The atrium transitions from an expansive open ground concourse to an intimate, layered enclosure framed by the floating dark modules.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical grid of projecting and recessed rectangular frames creating dynamic depth.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate monumentalism
- Program
- Corporate bank headquarters reception and visitor center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- painted-steel, glass, stone-flooring, wood
- Visual identifiers
- suspended-modules, atrium-glazing, dark-cantilevers, reception-desk
- Style tags
- contemporary, corporate, monumental
- Visual tags
- atrium, commercial-interior, modular-volumes, multi-story, suspended-structure
- Geometry
- Stacked, shifted dark-faced rectilinear volumes cantilever within a monumental multi-story atrium beneath a glazed diagrid roof.
- Structural guess
- Suspended steel truss framework supporting modular architectural pods within an existing atrium structure.
- Spatial scale
- Monumental scale; the suspended modules span multiple stories above a spacious reception lobby floor.
- Lighting
- Bright, diffused daylight from the overhead glass atrium ceiling combined with warm interior artificial pendant illumination.
- Atmosphere
- Sleek and commanding, balanced by the diffuse clarity of natural overhead light.
- Environmental context
- Large commercial indoor atrium or concourse with surrounding multi-level circulation galleries.
- Spatial experience
- The atrium transitions from an expansive open ground concourse to an intimate, layered enclosure framed by the floating dark modules.
- Composition rhythm
- Asymmetrical grid of projecting and recessed rectangular frames creating dynamic depth.
- Style reading
- Contemporary corporate monumentalism
- Program
- Corporate bank headquarters reception and visitor center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior