A Bath-based workplace design and build company has won a multimillion-pound contract to design law firm Osborne Clarke’s new flagship office in Bristol.
Interaction has been commissioned to fit-out the company's interior workspaces at Halo - a huge eco office that is part of the Finzels Reach regeneration project and is being built on the site of the former Avon Fire and Rescue headquarters.
According to Osborne Clarke, Interaction has designed a "highly flexible" workspace for 800 staff that promotes agile working and staff wellbeing, while meeting strict sustainability criteria.
Osborne Clarke is taking the top five floors of the Halo building, which will provide 74,000 sq ft of Grade A office space in total. It said Interaction’s design included destination points on each level and an informal creative space to encourage movement between floors and greater collaboration, the law firm said.
Design features will include:
- indoor gardens where people can work away from their desks;
- a yoga and spin studio;
- a restaurant with a private rooftop terrace;
- flexible meeting spaces with moveable walls;
- and furniture that can be used for multiple different event settings.
Osborne Clarke said Interaction met "tough" sustainability standards as part of the design brief. The law firm is aiming to achieve a 'WELL building standard' certification for the fit-out of the internal space at Halo, which has a BREEAM outstanding accreditation for sustainability.
The awarding of the contract follows months of intensive consultation between Interaction’s design team and hundreds of employees across Osborne Clarke. Interaction has also won a contract to supply furniture for the new office.
Rebecca Plummeridge, programme lead at Osborne Clarke, said: “The Interaction team has really worked with us to understand and guide how we will work in the future.
"The designs for the new office have gone down incredibly well with people from across our Bristol office and created lots of excitement – Interaction have understood our brief so well."
Interaction’s managing director, Dieter Wood, said the design would deliver "exactly" what Osborne Clarke had envisaged.
“Osborne Clarke highly values the wellbeing of its people and the sustainability of its new workspace. The firm is creating a best-in-class workplace to take them into the future," said Mr Wood.
“It's a partner and project we're incredibly proud of and we're looking forward to delivering a flagship workspace in one of Bristol's best buildings.”
Halo is a smart Grade A office building of 116,000 sq ft being developed by Cubex and funded by Fiera Real Estate.
It is being constructed across the road from the first phase of Finzels Reach and is set to be one of the greenest office buildings in the UK, according to Cubex.
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