Borehamwood Hertfordshire, UK

The 3.593 hectare campus contains four units with office space, totalling 328,053 sqft. SGP’s design includes service yards and car parking with spaces for electric vehicles and cycles and an unusual boundary treatment that mixes security with references to the site’s past icons.

For Unit 2, SGP amended the classic Panattoni livery of contemporary neutral monochromatic colours to respond to the unit’s prominence on the key local route of Elstree Way.

SGP’s design uses a series of elegant vertical details that create a colonnade formed at seemingly random centres. These take on a dynamic, contemporary architectural form, breaking up the mass into a pattern of materials on a more human and vernacular scale.

This contemporary reflection of the Art Deco style balances rustic metallic cladding and boxed out profiles with the softness of the brick slips and adds a more finished and aesthetically pleasing tinted curtain wall glazing. Colourways in the Panattoni corporate colours of navy blue and white with white feature banding at roof level complete the look.