Name: Gresford Architects
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Modern multi-storey building with mixed brick and glass facades, balconies, and large windows; architecture by Gresford Architects.

Modern building façade with black brickwork, large windows, and balconies, featuring wooden doors and a white lower section, architecture by Gresford Architects.

Modern multi-storey building with black brick facade, balconies with metal railings, large ground-floor window, and white and wooden accents, architecture by Gresford Architects.

Low-angle view of modern building façades against a blue sky, with shadows and reflections, architecture by Gresford Architects.

Modern building facade with large windows, dark brick exterior, and green paneling, interior visible through the windows, architecture by Gresford Architects.

Abstract close-up of a glass structure with vertical green neon accents, shadow and light play, architecture by Gresford Architects.

Empty industrial-style room with exposed brick walls, concrete columns, black flooring, pipework, and modern ceiling lights, architecture by Gresford Architects.

View from a balcony with black metal railing overlooking a cityscape with trees and brick buildings, clear blue sky, architecture by Gresford Architects.

Adding to the emerging regeneration of the local area, Gresford Architects has delivered this new six-storey mixed-use building in Hackney. The scheme optimises the previously underutilised brownfield site and delivers much needed affordable, high-quality office space and open market residential accommodation to the borough.

The façade of the simple and elegant building gives a sense of solidity to echo original warehouse typologies common to its canal-side location. It sits sensitively within its surrounding context and enhances the character and appearance of its conservation area location.

The external material palette has been selected to further reinforce this language in a contemporary manner. Brick for the upper storeys is laid on a single-storey concrete plinth, distinguishing a change in use from the commercial space at lower level to the residential units above. Fenestration details to all floors are framed in dark aluminium to complement the brick body of the building.