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Kyson has built up a reputation for producing well-crafted, contextual buildings that balance the tension between design integrity and commercial viability.

Adjacent to a Grade I listed church in East London, this project allows the site’s complex setting and parameters to inform the design. The building stands as a landmark that reinstates a highly pressured link between the church and the nearby Liverpool Street Station, enhancing the church’s setting in the process.

The abstract shape formed of dynamic shifting volumes presents a carefully considered and well-balanced composition. The façade is articulated through layered, reflective glazed panels on a regularised grid. Simplistic in appearance, the layering and subtle panel variations provide varying degrees of reflection whilst also offering interesting glimpses of the workspace behind. In daylight, the facade reads almost uniformly, but as daylight drops the façade starts to become animated in a more extrinsic composition.