Adaptive re-use / Commercial · 2021

99 Atlantic

A 1920s brick warehouse taken back to structure and rebuilt as Class-A creative office.

The brief

The owner had a heritage-designated brick-and-beam warehouse leaking tenants to newer stock. They needed Class-A servicing and daylight without losing the character that made the building rentable in the first place.

The challenge

Heritage designation on the north and east elevations meant no new penetrations above the second floor.
Two ground-floor tenants stayed operational for the entire 14-month programme.
Existing timber columns were out of plumb by up to 60 mm, so every new floor plate had to be surveyed and shimmed.

What we did

We stripped the interior to the original Douglas fir frame, sistered 118 columns, and poured a new topping slab on composite deck. New mechanical was routed through a purpose-built rear core so the protected elevations stayed untouched. Glazing was replaced with thermally broken steel-look aluminium matched to the 1921 profiles.