35DP, Office fit out for Workrise

Hamill architects were appointed to provide a complete interior design service for Workrise at their new offices, located at 35DP. 35DP is located in Donegall Place, Belfast.  Workrise took occupancy of the fourth floor offering panoramic views across the city and beyond. With over 9,000 sqft, it offers a generous amount of light and floor space within this flexible office environment.

 

We are very pleased to announce that Workrise @ 35DP has been awarded ‘Fit Out Project of the Year- Small Office over €500k’ in the 2022 Fit Out Awards. Congratulations to the client on their vision and to the team at Sommerville Fit-Out on this fantastic achievement.

 

Workrise wanted a flexible office design within their new work environment, offering staff options of comfortable areas to work as well as socialise.  The open plan spaces incorporated plants and greenery  to encourage a greater connectivity to the natural environment.  We developed design proposals to create a flexible and collaborative workspace.  This was, combined with open plan work stations, a large central break out area, acoustic meeting pods and phone booths, a Café area and various sized meeting rooms.  These meeting rooms were fitted out with acoustic walls and glass doors to create a quiet work space within the otherwise open plan office.  The larger boardrooms are equipped for meetings with comfortable seating, and the use of frosted glass allows for privacy during the meeting but equally, allows natural light to be utilised, with the smaller meeting rooms modelled on the same theme.

 

Natural and local materials were used to create feature pieces including a large planter clad in Ballymagreehan Granite and bespoke seating upholstered in fabric selected from Mourne textiles’ collections.

 

The completed project fulfils the client’s needs in a dynamic, attractive & innovative space.  The mix of materials, colours and textures within this building provided a challenge both for the Design and Construction teams, however with teamwork & a trusting client it has resulted modern office environment that our clients staff enjoy working in.

Costa Coffee, Bray, Ireland

 

A new Costa Coffee that we have recently completed In Bray, Co. Wicklow. We provided a full Architects Service on this job.

 

Natural granite and the large glazed areas create a shop that is full of light and fitted out in Costa’s latest ‘Store of the Future’ design

 

Renovation and extension to existing bar, Donaghmore

 

Hamill architects were appointed to provide a complete service on this renovation and extension to an existing bar in Donaghmore.

 

The bar area was completely stripped out and a large extension was formed to the rear of the premises creating an open plan social space.  The upper floors were renovated to create 4 separate self catering apartments, two with a single bedroom and two with two bedrooms.

 

Fit out of offices for Payescape

 

The opportunity to renovate and  a building that was vacant in a town centre into new offices for Payscape presented a project that was exciting in many ways. The client was understanding of the processes  required and wanted to be involved at every opportunity. The brief was to take a building that had lain empty and required a renovation and redesigned to provide modern offices over three floors with retail accommodation at ground floor.  The building had previously been used as a retail premises at ground floor and storage at the upper floor, all of these uses leaving disjointed spaces that were not suitable for a modern office facility. The brief asked for open plan office spaces, private meeting rooms and social spaces for staff. The entrance to Church Street was adapted to give a generous entrance to the reception area.

 

The completed building fulfils the client’s needs in a dynamic, attractive & innovative space.  The mix of materials, colours and textures within this building provided a challenge both for the Design and Construction teams, however with teamwork & a trusting clients it has resulted in the regeneration of a town centre building and a very happy client.

New crèche/ daycare Facility at JMG Systems site on the Derry Road in Omagh.  The new facility was to take the form of an extension to a detached house on their site.  The house had lain empty for some time, and, although in good structural condition, its layout would clearly need some major changes.

 

A strict and tight timeframe of 8 months was given to gain all statutory approvals and complete the building ready for at the start of the school term.

 

Due to the tight construction time, it was suggested that the new extension should be built in timber frame construction, due to speed of erection and lack of drying-out time.

 

The finished building as seen from the road it is a modest family house of the 1970’s, but to the rear and largely out of sight it has taken on an alter ego with a modern wing. This cedar-clad extension with mono pitched roof is energetic and angular; it is a playful counterpart to the existing structure and spreads out in a manner that suggests a mother hen taking her chicks under her wing.

 

Access to the creche is through an existing approach to a JMG’s Existing Production Buildings to the rear. Car parking and a drop-off space is provided in the Production building’s forecourt which is safe and off-road. From here gates lead to the fairy tale entrance, it is painted bright Burgundy red and raises a diagonal pitched roof, like the visor of a knights helmet.  In reception each child is provided with a cubby hole and a coat hook, and after arriving, the children are conducted to their appropriate play areas. The entrance forecourt and external play area is flanked by the raking profile of the extension; the cedar cladding has been left untreated so that time will weather it to a silver-grey. The facade presents a lively kaleidoscope of window openings whose tilted alignment responds to the angle of the mono pitched roof. Openings vary in height and shape in an abstract pattern, a prominent triangulated dormer raises another jutting profile and admits south light into the first floor playroom.

 

The extension covers an outside play area and is linked to the parent building by modern glazed strips which articulate the separation between old and new.

 

The project seems to have entered the minds of children to produce an environment of intimacy, colour, sparkle, light and a touch of whimsy. It is up and running and provides a much needed childcare facility in the Omagh area where it is highly valued.

One of the largest and most complicated projects that McH Architects have ever completed, Main Street, Omagh provides Tyrone’s County town with 125000 sq ft of retail and office space.

 

Situated on the site of the old Royal Arms Hotel McH Architects have designed and project managed a complete new street comprising 18 retail units and 8 office suites. Built on piled foundations, the irregularly shaped site threw up all kinds of challenges including the propping and refurbishment of the listed façade of the old hotel which now provides the gateway to the new street from Omaghs High Street.

 

Strikingly contemporary in its view from Kelvin Avenue the scheme has changed the experience of shopping in Omagh.