Sky Central

Sky Central is the British Broadcasters new flagship building in West London, opened in 2016. SCP Professional worked with HASSELL on the specification of the furniture for the building.

Last year was a busy year for SCP Contracts. As well as opening their own dedicated showroom space on the first floor at SCP East, they also undertook the biggest project in their history – Sky Central.

This new purpose built building in West London provided the team at SCP Contracts with a real challenge. How to provide flexible furniture and products solutions that would match the ambitious brief set by Sky, who wanted a building that would not only work well, but engender wellness itself.

Here is the story of the project.

 

Sky Central Atrium | Photograph by Mark Cocksedge

Situated in Osterley, West London, the Sky Central building is at the heart of a 13 hectare media campus and houses over 3500 employees, within 37,700 sqm of workspace. Sky set an ambitious brief that sought the creation of a people centric space that would promote flexible, collaborative, task-based working. They also wanted a space that would engender a sense of health and wellbeing for their employees.

A combination of talents were brought together for the project – a building concept by AL_A, an interior concept by PLP Architecture, workspace design by HASSELL and structural engineering by Arup. SCP Professional worked closely with HASSELL on the specification and delivery of all of the furniture for the building, in what is their single largest project to date.

The building is centred around a triple-height h-shaped central atrium with an elevated live broadcast studio. This sits above a 100m long street that runs east to west on the ground floor. The Sky Street acts as a connector of spaces, and contains a mixture of touchdown workspaces, informal meeting areas, dining spaces, support facilities and a cinema. HASSELL in particular worked on the creation of defined neighbourhoods, which can house around 200 people and include a range of individual and team work settings, these are supported by home zones that include kitchens, meeting tables and more casual sitting areas.

Sky Central is a truly modern example of a large scale mixed use workspace that has been created to be adaptable in both the short and long-term. Excellent architecture and planning ensure the building engenders a fluidity of movement around the space and a sense of visual connectivity.

Product Highlights:

AAC15 About a Chair by HAY
Mava armchair by Punt Mobles
Pick Up Sticks armchair by Resident
William sofa by Zanotta
Clip Coat Hanger by Discipline
The Minuscule Armchair by Fritz Hansen
Button tables by B&B Italia
Stockholm Cabinets by Punt Mobles

 

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Full Project Information:

Client: Sky
Architect: ALA_A (exterior) & PLP Architecture (interior)
Design: HASSELL
Photography: Mark Cocksedge
Year: 2016
Location: West London

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