British Land has appointed McLaren to deliver a new office scheme at 75 Davies Street above West One Shopping Centre and Bond Street Underground Station on Oxford Street in London.
The £99m design and build contract, combines new build and retrofit and will deliver 93,517 sq ft of commercial space over seven storeys.
Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the development will provide three additional office floors, an expanded office reception area, cycle storage and shower facilities, a courtyard on the second and third floors, terraces on most other office floors, a new core and plant rooms on level eight.
The West One building, which currently provides 49,801 sq ft of office space, dates from the late 1970s, when the first phase of the Jubilee Line was built.
The building currently features three levels of retail from basement to first floor and four levels of offices from second to fifth floors. The new configuration comprises two levels of retail on basement and ground floors and offices on floors one to seven.
The new design minimises the embodied carbon of the refurbished building by retaining around 60% of the existing concrete structure and uses a lightweight steel structure from the second floor upwards to add more floors and maximise the net internal area.
Darren Gill, managing director for London and south at McLaren Construction, said: “All the technical challenges of this project – reusing an existing structure, working around commercial tenants and above a busy underground station – are increasingly familiar as Oxford Street reinvents itself and developers strive to provide quality modern space without wholesale demolition.”
