Leading
commercial washroom designer and manufacturer, Washroom Washroom, has designed
and installed a striking bespoke reception desk along with new washrooms for an
award-winning office development with ISG.
The
Bower Building at 4 Roundwood Avenue on Stockley Park, provides 151,000 sq. ft. of world class office
accommodation, built to uncompromised design standards.
The extensive refurbishment of the building, designed
by ESA Architects and carried out by ISG,
won the Best Refurbishment/Regeneration of the Year award at the OAS
Development Awards this summer.
The
reception area at The Bower had to set the tone for the rest of the building
and to make a lasting impression on visitors. With this in mind, Washroom
designed and manufactured a bespoke Corian reception desk to mirror the angular lines of the unique feature staircases in the building’s
central atrium.
In addition, Washroom
installed new male and female washrooms to three levels across four cores of
the building. Utilising Washroom’s exclusive Iconica Collection, the washroom
design features real wood veneers, glass and Corian to complement the high specification
finish seen throughout the building. The team constructed the vanities off-site
and stored them at the Washroom factory in Essex, ready to be delivered to site
just in time for installation.
Washroom’s
full height Alto toilet cubicles were specified with a real wood walnut veneer
finish for this project. The cubicle’s rebated edge
design creates a flush front for a virtually seamless façade, while its full
height doors offer complete privacy for end users, making it a popular choice
for high specification office washrooms.
The bespoke white
Corian trough-style vanity units were designed by Washroom for The Bower.
Featuring a slight slope and clean angular lines, the vanity units also include
an integral handbag shelf underneath, while back-painted glass splashbacks and
wall-mounted taps complete the design. The Tego hinged mirror units above the
vanities provide a compact hidden storage solution for essential washroom
consumables.
The Concerto
integrated duct panelling system, which was installed behind the WCs and
urinals in the washrooms, was faced with toughened back-painted glass and
further adds to the high specification style. Designed to allow ease of access
for any future maintenance, whether planned or reactive, with minimum
disruption, the glass duct panels are the perfect balance of form and function.
In the staff shower
and changing area in the basement of the building, Washroom’s solid grade
laminate Forza lockers were specified to provide staff with a durable, secure
storage facility.
Trevor
Bowers, director at Washroom Washroom said: “The stand-out element of this
project is the reception desk and it was so important to get right as it’s the
first thing visitors to the building will see. It’s fantastic to see it in situ
now alongside the feature staircases in the main atrium
– it looks like a work of art from every angle.”
