The Student Castle in London’s Leman Street is a new and stylish student accommodation development offering bijou living for students, right at the heart of the City.
The lobby area, designed with primary colours and oak fittings provides a striking entrance and sets the tone for the whole building.
It features 620 mailboxes from specialists DAD that have been cleverly incorporated into the design scheme to make a striking feature as well as a hugely functional piece.
Student Castle London offers brand new student accommodation in Zone 1 and is located a stone’s throw from Tower Hill with trendy area of Brick Lane and Hoxton is an easy walk away – perfect for the student lifestyle. As well as en-suite student bedrooms, the Castle features music practice rooms, a dance studio, a gym and fitness studio and an on-site laundry.
Architects CareyJones ChapmanTolcher (CJCT) specified over 600 DAD mailboxes and used them to great decorative effect as a feature of the lobby. Instead of a standard, blank wall of boxes, the architects designed free-standing wooden frames which house banks of boxes with an eclectic pattern of different finishes. DAD worked closely with the design team to create the effect by carefully matching the front of their 2030 Series mailboxes to a number of colours specified by the architects in a bronze and silver palette. The result is a series of handsome architectural features which are as practical as they are good looking.
The 2030 mailbox from DAD is its best-selling free-standing box with a front delivery and retrieval mechanism for mail up to A4 size. Manufactured by DAD at their own factory in electro-galvanized steel, the 2030 mailboxes are a secure option with integrated access control, anti-arson device, and a high quality security lock complete with two keys. Little touches like a letter flap with sound reducing device and digital/electronic and multi-locking options make the 2030 DAD mailbox a safe, high quality and practical option. They comply with Secured by Design and Royal Mail requirements.
DAD has been designing and manufacturing steel security products since 1872 and was the first letterboxes and post boxes manufacturer in Europe, now with over 1.5 million units produced every year at its factories in France and Germany.
With 700 employees worldwide and a turnover of over £60 million, they manufacture an extensive range which includes fire-rated and anti-arson postboxes, free standing post boxes, wall-mounted and through-the-wall boxes for residential and commercial applications. DAD has opened its offices in the UK in 1996.