Hackney Service Centre Building, Hopkins Architects London, Hillman Street, Architect
Hackney Service Centre
Bohemia Place Development, E8: Northeast London Architecture – design by Hopkins Architects
19 May 2011
Hackney Service Centre London
RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011
Design: Hopkins Architects
Address: Unit 4, Bohemia Pl, Hackney, London E8 1DU
Phone: 020 8533 2786
photographs © Paul Tyagi
Hackney Service Centre
This significant project brings together, literally under one roof, the services of London Borough of Hackney. The architectural proposition is disarmingly straightforward. A U-shaped stacked plan of administrative space, five storeys high, opens on to a huge, barrel-vaulted, glazed atrium. Each of the office floor plates is predominantly open plan with side wings that contain support spaces, informal meeting and break-out areas, and tea points.
The ground floor of the atrium houses the one-stop shop, the interface between the public and its civil servants. The staff can see the public and importantly the public can see the staff; this is a building that is based on the idea of visibility and accessibility. The entire building is drenched in daylight, the antithesis of a closed defensive civic headquarters.
photograph © Sean Pollock
Hackney Service Centre – Building Information
Location: Hillman Street, London E8
Architect: Hopkins Architects Partnership
Client: London Borough of Hackney
Structural Engineer: Halcrow Group
Services Engineer: Jacobs
Contract Value: £43,733,000
Date of completion: Mar 2010
Gross internal area: 15,000 sqm
Bohemia Place Building images / information from RIBA Awards
Location: Hillman Street, Hackney, London E8, UK
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