76 Upper Ground (76 Southbank)

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Commercial · Retrofit Office · Temperate · 2025

A refurbishment and extension of Denys Lasdun's Grade II-listed 1983 former IBM building beside the National Theatre on London's South Bank. The scheme retains over 80% of the existing structure and adds around 11,000 sqm of office space, partly informed by Lasdun's original drawings for a larger building. It targets BREEAM Outstanding and a NABERS Design for Performance 5-star rating.

Innovation highlights

• Over 80% structural retention of a listed office
• Extension informed by the architect's original drawings
• BREEAM Outstanding and NABERS 5-star targets
• Car-oriented frontage converted to public realm

Innovations in the catalogue

• Major Structural Retention with Sympathetic Extension
• Archive-Informed Heritage Extension
• NABERS-Style Design-for-Performance Targeting

Client / Developer

Stanhope / CO-RE

Architect

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (original: Denys Lasdun, 1983)

Type

Retrofit Office

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