Mansell Street

Sector Office

Client Eastmount London Ltd

Location The City, London

Value £7 million

GEA 35,000 sq ft

Awards RIBA National Award, British Steel Award

A 35,000 square foot speculative office on the City Fringe of London, arranged over 7 floors using an exposed reinforced concrete frame. Jonathan Ellis-Miller won the 1991 RIBA Award with John Winter and Elana Keats.

‘An early manifestation of the cool minimalism that returned to favour in the early1990s, coming here like a draught of pure water’ Sir Niklaus Pevsner: The London City Guide.‘... a technological coup de theatre’ Catherine Slessor, Architectural Review‘... it is a building of considerable polish. Nor is it exactly a shrinking violet: a traffic stopping glass façade has a powerful impact ... succeeds in lifting the type(speculative offices) into a different category’ Deyan Sudjic, Blueprint