This speculative office development was secured through an architectural competition win for Legal and General, which is leased, managed and maintained by Newcastle City Council.  The building, a 9,300sqm NIA with A1 / A3 use at ground floor, has been designed so that each floor can be split in to three tenant domains if required.  This was the first significant A grade office building to be built in Newcastle city centre since the mid 1990s.

The building provides modern workspace for over 1,200 people in the science, technology and knowledge based sectors.

It is designed to British Council for Office standards with a ratio of occupancy of one person per 8sqm NIA, and to BREEAM Excellent with an EPC rating of A.

Vehicular access, disabled parking and drop off are incorporated into the adjacent public realm. There is a generous double height shared reception and touchdown space along with a café, all of which have direct access to the public realm. A triple height A3 unit fronts St James Boulevard whilst plant, back of house and staff amenity spaces are carefully tucked into a basement so to not compromise the active frontage on this key gateway site.

Material Used:
1. Facade cladding: Sotech PPC Bespoke Aluminium with Axalta Alesta SD Matt Pearl Brown coating
2. Flooring: Kingspan Medium grade RAF – feature floors of Lazenby polished concrete and large scale CTD Concept ceramic tiles
3. Doors: Schuco (curtain wall), Ascot (steel doors)
4. Windows: Schuco FWS60 and FW60 SG system
5. Roofing: Bauder Bakor inverted hot melt waterproofing with XPS insulation fully ballasted with pavers/stone + Bauder VIP bitumen warm roof to terraces
6. Lighting: Fagerhult and Concord Office plate ones Trilux
7. Furniture: Vitra