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HKR : OFFICES

Offices

HKR : OFFICES

Design is strongly connected to business success. Buildings of

the future will be entirely different to the places where we work

today. These innovative workplaces will have a profound effect on

organisational culture and individual performance.

Offices

Mixed Use

Offices

Residential

Retail

Masterplanning & Urban Design

Hotels & Resorts

Education

Health

Interior Architecture

HKR Architects is an international architecture and design practice with offices in Dublin, London, Manchester, Belfast and Prague.

HKR’s portfolio of projects spans several sectors – mixed use, offices, residential, retail, hotels & resorts, education and health. The practice has dedicated capabilities in masterplanning & urban design and in Public Private Partnership projects. It also specialises in the design and fitout of interiors for all types of buildings.

HKR has been designing buildings and environments since 1992 and has gained award-winning status internationally, providing design-led solutions that are functional and commercial, and highly specific to clients’ needs.

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Office Design

HKR — Achieving exemplar schemes for developers and occupiers alike.Whilst simple to understand at its most basic level, the modern office must display a range of attributes that appeal to a range of stakeholders.

The developer — We work with some of the most eminent developers. HKR understands that it is a prerequisite of any scheme, whether we are in a buoyant market or a trough, that the development appraisal is understood and met. The funder — We work with numerous major investment funds and financial institutions. Offices can be seen as commodities that can be bought and sold a number of times before they are even complete. Accountable, flexible and above all deliverable, we recognise that behind every project there is a finance regime and an army of development surveyors in place auditing the design.

The occupier — We advise major blue chip occupiers. In the service-orientated economy where knowledge is power and staff retention is everything, the best office space will attract the best people - whether this be a stand-alone HQ building or a single floor in a city centre speculative scheme. Through our integrated workplace interiors team we are able to optimise the internal environment of any office building to the benefit of both occupier and developer alike.

The agent — We work with all the major agents. We recognise that any speculative office scheme has to let when it is on paper, when it is under construction and when it is complete. The space should be let by the time a potential occupier has crossed the threshold and entered the lifts.

The city — We understand context. One size does not fit all. We live in a global economy where cities not only compete at a regional and national level but on the world stage. Each city has its own attributes and its own market. A London floorplate would not necessarily work in a Manchester, Dublin or Belfast context and vise versa. In each city we understand the target market, the local rent and the appropriate floorplate offer.

Apart from the homes we live in, for many people, the office is the building type that most dominates our lives.

“Architecture is enjoying unprecedented success... and HKR’s expertise and vision will guarantee that this continues well into the 21st century.”Ken Bishop — Director DTZ


To produce an elegant building. This must be the starting point for any project. An office building must be both commercially and architecturally robust; ambitious and deliverable in equal measure. Clarity of form, space and a rejection of architectural gesture will lead to a sustainable proposal. We believe in the refinement of a building’s essential components through technical understanding.

To produce an efficient building. A commercial building must maximise its nett to gross ratio. We aim to maximise the floor area within the site and plan the space with a nett to gross ratio in excess of 80%. Notional space planning studies are always undertaken to provide an efficient grid layout and core placement – through understanding the notion of usable and unusable space within a floorplate.

A complete synthesis of structure, services and the workplace. Modern buildings are becoming increasingly complex. The last decade has seen a profound change in the demands occupiers place for the spaces in which they work. A thorough understanding of modern building systems is essential, from structural principles through to the building fabric and their seamless integration. This allows us to control capital cost, costs for use and anticipate the changing nature of the workplace. A holistic view of a building’s engineering system and the spaces they serve is essential to HKR’s input in any project.

To exploit the urban opportunity. At HKR we embrace a city’s urban legacy. For any project we seek to understand what the development will mean to the city in which it is situated. This involves extensive site analysis looking at both macro and micro issues.

To be sustainable. We approach the design of any office project from first principles – long life, loose fit and lean construction. We then ensure that the building not only meets all current environmental requirements but also is capable of meeting the potential requirements of the future.

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How We Design Offices Large or small, our approach is the same.

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Case Studies


Fore Street

Planning permission has been granted for Fore Street, a £74 million 13 storey Grade A office development for Telereal in the City of London.

HKR has designed this challenging site to comply with sustainability regulations while maximising floor space and the use of daylight.

The outcome is an iconic 380,000 sq ft building, featuring green-terraced roof garden tiers stepping back from the Barbican.

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“HKR offers intelligent and commercial architecture. This striking development will provide state-of-the-art office accommodation appropriate to a world financial centre.”Nigel Reis, National Development Manager, Telereal


The design responds to the constraints of the surrounding buildings and the fact it falls within the strategic views of St Paul’s Cathedral. Designed for large City occupiers, the building creates open plan floorplates and rakes back at higher levels away from The Barbican in a series of stepped roof gardens. Floating on V columns the building is designed to cantilever over the proposed Crossrail tunnels.

The building elevations have been designed to respond to their orientation and achieve optimum environmental control whilst creating a building of light and transparency. The building will be almost 30% better in terms of energy consumption than current best practice, and 20% better than best practice, in terms of CO² emissions.

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The Hive

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This is an exemplar sustainable speculative development, demonstrating that those in the property business are also in the energy business.

In 2005 Argent Estates invited HKR to undertake a feasibility study for three sites adjacent to Stevenson Square, Manchester.

The initial commission was to provide a development framework which was agreeable to Manchester City Council and adjacent land owners. This soon developed into masterplanning the entire site and the design and delivery of the largest building on the site, The Hive.


The Hive is a pioneering building, providing speculative office space aimed at the creative industries. The building is not a corporate headquarters. It is a simple, kickable, flexible building which immerses itself in the home of the creative industries in the North West of the UK – The Northern Quarter.

Office rental levels are lower in The Northern Quarter than in other city centre locations in Manchester and therefore the build cost needed to be lower in response.

The sustainable agenda for this building evolved out of a thorough understanding of the commercial limitations of the project and transforming these into the building’s greatest asset.

The simplest way of making a building ›cheaper is to make it smaller.

We could not make the building smaller ›in plan because the plan drives value.

We made the building smaller in ›section by omitting the M+E zone and the ceiling.

We exposed the concrete slab within ›the office areas to utilise the radiant cooling of the raw concrete.

By introducing narrow floorplates we ›were able to further naturally ventilate the office space.

Finally, in order to mitigate excessive ›solar gain, we created a solid façade with 40% openings to maximise daylight penetration internally whilst reducing capital costs.

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01 View of new arcade running through the middle of

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Red Oak North

Representative of a new generation of offices being delivered by HKR, this 68,000 sq ft office building in Dublin was completed in 2007.

In developing this one acre site, a striking design has been used to retain the landscape features by wrapping the building around the existing trees and maximising the setting by making a prominent feature of an existing 65 foot high red oak tree.

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The building has also being designed with the flexibility to be occupied by one or multiple tenants.

Red Oak North can be viewed from all sides and the materials being used reinforce its quality and energy efficiency.

A further feature of the site design which lends to this mature landscape is minimum parking at ground level, with provision for over 100 cars at basement level.

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Axis

These four statements apply perfectly to HKR’s work on Axis.

This startling, small and very difficult site is at the bookend of one of Manchester’s first regeneration projects, Deansgate Locks. The locks sit adjacent to the Rochdale Canal, a world heritage site. Across the road is the Hacienda, the eponymous residential development which sits on the site of the Hacienda Club – the birthplace of cool.

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Goodsitesarebecoming›increasinglyrare.

Sitesarebecominghardertodevelop›throughincreasinglydifficultsiteconstraints.

Resolvetheseissuesand›maximisevaluethroughtechnicalunderstanding.

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The site is bounded by a tram line and sits in the shadow of the G-Mex Centre, a Grade 2 listed former railway station. The site also sits at the end of a long vista approaching the city from Manchester International Airport via Chester Road. This is a true gateway site and as such demands a striking architectural response both physically and commercially.

HKR’s design response has been driven by the need to maximise the development area for the developer and make this site commercially viable. HKR has done this in three ways.

Building height — As a gateway site, and following a thorough analysis of the site and its wider context, HKR proposed a 16 storey building. The building height was eventually limited by lifting capacity, ensuring we had the most efficient lift strategy possible.

Extending the building line over the site boundary — We proposed cantilevering the building by 3 metres over the site boundary on 4 sides of the site. Careful negotiations with British Waterways and Manchester City Council ensured that an extra 40,000 sq ft will be delivered on the site.

Reducing the area of the core — Statutorily, an office building of this height will require two escape stairs and cores. It became apparent that to maximise the development area on such a small site, a one escape stair and core solution would be needed. Together with Arup Fire, HKR devised an ingenious solution of one escape core which has three exit points – a first for a UK building.

The proposed core arrangement maximises the development area, allows the floorplate to split for tenancies and maximises prime space within the floorplate - overall, maximising value through technical understanding.

The final form of the 72,000 sq ft building is one of a needle, 16 storeys high and 4m wide at its prow. A tripartite separation of bottom, middle and top is employed. At the bottom of the building raking in-situ concrete columns support the 3m cantilever over the building site boundary upto the second floor. The middle of the building is clad in a structural silicone glazed cladding system. Careful consideration has

been given to minimise panel joints and maximise panel sizes to give a modern, taut expression to the façade. At the top of the building a translucent plant room is hung from a structural sheer wall creating a column free entertainment space immediately below. At night the plant room is illuminated, crowning the building and marking the point at which one enters or leaves the city centre.

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The redevelopment at the prestigious address of 4-6 Burlington Road Dublin will provide 310,000 sq ft of Grade A office space.

HKR’s design is being developed by Coolbrook Ltd and is currently under construction, due for completion in 2009.

High specification materials are being used throughout both externally and internally with natural stone, polyester powder coated aluminium, stainless steel, glass and copper.

The development consists of two blocks with floors varying from five to seven over a joint lower ground landscaped podium level, with basement level below providing 82 car park spaces. The floorplate of each block is designed for maximum natural light, future flexibility for sub-division and with generous floor to ceiling heights.

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Overall, these buildings have been designed with sustainability and energy efficiency as a core consideration.

Depending on the orientation there are triple skin façades with an opaque of fritted outer skin or angled aluminium external vertical fins which, used in tandem with the high performance glass specified throughout, provide a comfortable working environment and reduce requirement for mechanical heating and venting.

The introduction of chilled beams for heating and cooling throughout both of the blocks benefit the user by responding to environmental and corporate demands to reduce energy costs and emissions.

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The Scottish Provident site, along with a number of other sites situated within the prime core, has long been identified as a key opportunity in the strategic renaissance of the traditional core of Manchester City Centre.

In 2003 detailed planning permission was granted for a 75,000 sq ft office building on the site of the Scottish Provident building.

Over the following three years the owner of the site sought to secure an anchor tenant and in parallel explored alternative layouts and uses for the site in an effort to get the development moving.

By early 2006 the existing Scottish Provident building had been demolished. Tentative enquiries were made for the acquisition of the site by a number of developers and during this period HKR prepared their initial sketch ideas for an

Chancery Place

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alternative Grade A office building. These initial sketch ideas demonstrated an increase of 1,000 sq ft of net space on each floor above the existing 6,700 sq ft.

In July 2006 HKR was made aware that Alanis had purchased the site and was preparing to move forward on the basis of the existing permission. A meeting between HKR and Alanis was arranged and following subsequent discussions between HKR and Manchester City Council and English Heritage, HKR were instructed to develop their alternative scheme to a planning submission. In tandem with this, John Sisk & Son Ltd were employed to commence construction works with basement excavations and foundation designs capable of supporting both the existing approved scheme and the new HKR design.


Working in close partnership with the City Council, HKR submited a detailed planning application in record time and permission was received in December 2006 - only 4 months after the initial instruction was received from the client.

The new permission significantly raised the value of the investment for the developer yet still maintained the target date for when it would come to the market. Whilst sitting broadly within the previous planning envelope, the new scheme incorporated:

› A 25% increase in net space - 102,000 sq ft in total

› Utilising a post tensioned concrete frame, two additional floors where added - the top floor being a destination ‘Directors Lounge’ complete with a private roof garden overlooking Albert Square.

› An increase in prime retail frontage contained in a single double height unit fronting Booth Street

› A linear double height reception space orientated towards the premier address of King Street.

› Through the careful placement of a single core each typical office floor is now capable of two sublets.

› Primary space was maximised through the oversailing of the pavement on all four elevations and by the testing of the floorplate through space planning studies.

Set back half a metre from the front of pavement the external profile creates a modern flat iron building. Clad in steal and glass to maximise the view out and daylight in, the building has a distinct top, middle and bottom.

The bottom creates the office and retail address and provides access off the secondary streets to a technically challenging and spiralling two and half level basement, housing 26 car parking spaces, plant rooms, cycle storage and staff shower areas. The middle twelve floors are an extrusion of the site interrupted only by the lift core where, with its super-sized Portland stone mix, grc cladding panels create a nod to the historic buildings on King Street.

The top two floors are a modern twist on the traditional Victorian frieze. Set at 1.5 metre centres, a series of 6 metre high, angled, structural glass blades satisfy the technical requirements of solar shading and shelter to the executive roof garden and also provide a fitting finale to this new premier office address.

The building is set to complete on site in 2009 – only 2 years from inception. It will set a new benchmark in office rents for the city and in doing so create a new landmark development for a great modern city.

WorkingwithintheconfinesofthepreviousplanningenvelopeHKRhasincreasedthetotalnetareaofthebuildingby25%.

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Architecturallythebuildingdesigntakesitscuesfromtheunique‘island’natureofthesiteitself.

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Pelham House

Pelham House won RIAI Best Commercial Building Award 2004. The building is located in South County Business Park in Sandyford Dublin.

Pelham House is a commercial office across three floors around a three storey glazed entry hall.

The desire to keep the existing mature trees on the site presented a particular challenge on this project. The office space is designed to maximise the frontage and presence to the public space fronting the building.

The result is a landmark headquarters building with an entirely practical and flexible net floor area in keeping with the specific requirements of the demanding project brief.

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A basement car park was required but due to the level of rock it had to be reduced to a semi basement level. This gave the opportunity to emphasise the raised ground floor and podium deck.

Access to the podium is via a floating feature stairway over a water feature. The stairway leads to the glazed entry hall which connects the rear rectangular building to the front triangular section.

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HKR Headquarters

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Since 2003 HKR’s headquarters has been located in a building designed and developed by the practice at Schoolhouse Lane in Dublin.

Steady expansion of the practice - which now has over 300 professionals across 5 offices, with more than half of these being located in Dublin - has brought about the need for a larger premises.

To this end, in 2007 HKR purchased a Brownfield site on the corner of Shaw Street and Townsend Street in Dublin for the location of its new headquarters.

HKR Internal Design CompetitionHKR had many important design criteria for the new building and to be true to the spirit of transparency and collaboration, the practice held an internal design competition, open to all members of HKR to submit designs, further ideas and aspirations for our new building.

Entrants were given 6 weeks to prepare submissions and in all the practice received over 30 very comprehensive submissions ranging from highly conception ideas and images to fully designed and modelled buildings.


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Competition WinThe competition winning design had a strong and confident urban statement incorporating much incident and spacial complexity. In addition to being elegant, it also had a well considered rigorous commercial solution.

The proposed building will facilitate and foster the firm’s development while the design will make a hugely positive urban contribution to Dublin’s city centre.

The development of 64,000 sq ft will consist of a 12 storey building over a 2-level basement. The building will have offices on the 11 upper levels, and retail units plus a café on the ground and mezzanine levels.

The main building elevations have been designed as primarily glazed and the building will appear in various forms dependant on factors of day, night, light, reflection, and sun angle. By contrast, the south elevation will be physically changing, with the movement of externally mounted stainless steel blinds.

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Ashbourne Office Park

HKR has received planning permission for a development on a 3 acre site in Ashbourne Co. Meath. The first phase of development will comprises 60,000 sq ft of office space over five storeys. The development is located on the northern approach to Ashbourne and will create a formal edge to the existing Ashbourne Business Park.

HKR’s brief was to develop an efficient design that allowed maximum flexibility for the leasing of floor areas. The result is a building that can provide a variety of layout options depending on the tenants’ requirements. Each typical floor can accommodate up to four occupancies without compromising the building design or the need for extra circulation.

HKR’s awareness of sustainability has been applied in the design stages. Elevations are designed to optimise their orientation with vertically configured brise soleil to minimise solar gain and maximise external views.

To minimise the use of mechanical systems the basement car park, with over 100 spaces, is naturally ventilated and the offices can be cross ventilated through openable sections in the glazing.

Combining solutions that responded both to the client’s commercial requirements and the growing requirements of energy efficiency will ensure a building model that proves the viability of energy responsible design.

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Arthur Street EC2

12 Arthur Street, in the heart of the City of London, is a stunning landmark office development comprising over 100,000 sq ft of prime commercial office space.

Situated on a prominent island site, with highly efficient floorplates and excellent natural light on all sides, this building is an example of how a state of the art commercial office building can be designed to top international specifications whilst making a positive contextual contribution to the urban fabric of the City.

In the design of 12 Arthur Street, the developer’s potential is maximised by increasing the floor area by an additional 25,000 sq ft from a previous scheme for the site. This additional space is achieved by:

› Compressing the floor zone

› Building out to the boundary

› Balancing rights of light

› Optimisation of core and lettable area

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The services and structural zone are compressed on each floor thereby allowing twelve full storeys to be fitted between the Roman archaeology and the height limit of St Paul’s Cathedral.

The building perimeter is built out to the site boundary. At the upper levels the building is configured to accommodate the Rights of Light enjoyed by surrounding properties.

The lettable area of 12 Arthur Street has been maximised by locating the perimeter columns in the external cladding zone outboard of the perimeter edge beams. The structural solution allow clear internal column-free spans of 14 metres for maximum flexibility.


The Anchorage

The Anchorage, at 17-19 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay Dublin, is a 6 story over basement mixed use development with retail and car parking at ground, and offices at upper levels. It is located on a prominent corner site between the two new Liffey bridges, directly opposite Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC).

The building has been developed by HKR and Hayden Craig Partnership, and construction was completed in early 2008 by P Elliott & Co.

The building comprises of 40,000 sq ft of office space over retail/café at ground floor and ancillary office space at basement level.

The floorplates are designed to maximise natural daylight from all sides and a central core area. High performance glass is incorporated as required by the orientation.

High quality finishes are used throughout with natural black basalt stone, polyester powder coated and anodised aluminium profiles, precast concrete and high performance glass for the predominately glazed north and east façades.

This use of glass provides stunning views from within and a visually impressive urban building in this important landmark location.

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The Wave

HKR is developing detailed design proposals for The Wave, a modern sustainable office building along Farringdon Road in London. This development will be aimed at the new office market who are demanding more from their office space with respect to its location, energy efficiency, green credentials and flexibility.

The 200,000 sq ft building has been designed to respond to its context reacting to the daylight and sunlight envelope of the site which creates the wave form of the building, from which its name has been taken.

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The aspirations and content for this key site are:

› Create a special landmark building that will attract a new major media, creative industry or professional organisation to Clerkenwell

› Create active frontage

› Create a building that is at the forefront of sustainablitity in office design with a BREEAM excellent rating

› Meet renewable energy targets

› Create a flexible modern building that will be a landmark in London

› Create a building concept and form generated by an environmental response to the site and surroundings


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Principles of orientation and envelope modelling have been developed to avoid excessive solar gain on the various façades. Also cutting-edge technology has been used to minimise energy use and to generate on-site power through tri-generation which will contribute to over 20% of renewable energy for the building.

The proposal offers a prominent, generous entrance on the corner of Farringdon Road and Ray Street, with varying flexible floorplates throughout the building and roof terraces.

With plant services being predominantly located on the lower ground floor and basement areas, the top floors offer great panoramic views of the London skyline. There is also provision for retail use at ground floor.

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AxisAt 17 floors, this pioneering scheme will be the largest single fire stair office building in the UK.

Location: ManchesterSize: 72,000 sq ftValue: £15 millionClient: Property Alliance GroupType: OfficesN to G: 80%Grid: 12m x 6m

20 PiccadillyA mixed use building with hotel above office above retail. The careful placement of cores allows each to function efficiently and seamlessly with the others.

Location: ManchesterSize: 200,000 sq ft Value: £35 millionType: Offices, Hotel and RetailN to G: 85%Grid: 10.5m x 9m

The creation of the right address ›

The correct location of primary and ›secondary cores

The maximisation of net space ›combined with the optimisation of prime and secondary space

A flexible approach to sub-letting and ›exit strategies

Long span structures and fire ›engineering that push the boundaries

Low energy design thought through ›from first principles.

Combine all of these with great architectural design and you have HKR Architects approach to the design of offices.

Our range of projects, either completed or in design development, speak for themselves.

Designed to WorkLarge or small, the principles of good office design are the same.

“HKR’s track record speaks for itself… the practice has brought extensive and diverse sector experience to the property scene.”David Partridge—Joint Chief Executive, Argent plc


Manchester City CentreServed and servant spaces. This dramatic building consists of two wings of clear, regular space ‘serverd’ from a long spine ‘servant’ core structure. Atria contained within the spine brings daylight into the centre of the plan. Long spans, triple glazed façades and high thermal mass are employed.

Location: ManchesterSize: 500,000 sq ftValue: £60 millionType: Offices, Hotel and RetailN to G: 85%Grid: 9m x 12/18m

Fountain StreetA complete synthesis of structure, services and office space. The façades of Fountain Street are constructed from load bearing and innerlocking pre-cast concrete planks. The load bearing façade liberates the interior of structural columns resulting in clear office space.

Location: ManchesterSize: 60,000 sq ftValue: £10 millionType: OfficesN to G: 85%Grid: 12m x 9m

Number One SandyfordThe local market dictated that this be designed as a multi-let building, where each floorplate can accommodate 8 tenants. The central atrium includes a dramatic, sculptural central core which feeds numerous entrance points around the floorplate.

Location: DublinSize: 200,000 sq ftValue: £25 millionType: OfficesN to G: 80%Grid: 7.5m x 7.5/10.5m

GMPTEA transparent glass box of office accommodation behind a retained Victorian façade turns secondary space into Grade A office accommodation. The retained façade is used as a giant 19th century sandstone brise soliel to the glazing behind.

Location: ManchesterSize: 91,000 sq ftValue: £14 millionClient: Tower Gate DevelopmentsType: OfficesN to G: 85%Grid: 12m x 9m


Number One BallsbridgeThe mixed use development will include 109 apartments along with office and leisure spaces. These new buildings will be centred round two new plazas and two new shared pedestrian streets.

Location: DublinSize: 430,000 sq ftValue: £450 millionClient: Glenkerrin (UK) LtdType: Offices / Mixed UseN to G: 82%Grid: 9m x 9m

Chancery PlaceThe building is set to complete on site in 2009 – only 2 years from inception. It will set a new benchmark in office rents for Manchester City and in doing so will create a new landmark development for a great modern city.

Location: ManchesterSize: 75,000 sq ftValue: £20 millionClient: AlanisType: OfficesN to G: 78%Grid: 4m x 9m

12 Arthur Street12 Arthur Street is a fine example of how a ‘state-of-the-art’ commercial office building can be designed to top international specifications whilst making a positive contextual contribution to the urban fabric of London City.

Location: LondonSize: 100,000 sq ftType: OfficesN to G: 84%Grid: 6m x 12m

St Peter’s SquareLocated adjacent the busy A6, St Peter’s Square will bring a Manchester building to the Stockport market. Typical floorplates approach 90% net to gross and utilise 15m clear spans to create a column free interior.

Location: Wellington Rd, StockportSize: 58,000 sq ftValue: £7 millionClient: HBG PropertiesType: OfficesN to G: 89%Grid: 15m x 7.5m


Trafford QuaysThis exemplar sustainable office building for a major insurance fund has been designed to provide a calm, relaxing backdrop to facilitate a best practice working environment. Narrow floorplates, thermal mass and natural ventilation are fundamental to the building programme.

Location: ManchesterSize: 200,000 sq ftValue: £35 millionType: OfficesN to G: 83%Grid: 15m x 6m

Pelham HouseThe office space is designed to maximise the frontage and presence to the public space fronting the building. The result is a landmark headquarters level building with an entirely practical and flexible net floor area in keeping with the specific requirements of the demanding project brief.

Location: DublinValue: £4 millionType: OfficesN to G: 82%Grid: 9m x 7.5m

HKR HeadquartersHKR ‘s innovative design for their new HQ building responds to growing environmental requirements of buildings and will serve as an exemplar of the economic and planning viability of environmentally engineered and designed building solutions.

Location: Dublin Size: 64,000 sq ftValue: £15 millionType: OfficesN to G: 85%Grid: 12m x 9m


Red Oak North In developing this one acre site, a striking design has been used to retain the landscape features by wrapping the building around the existing trees and maximising the setting by making a prominent feature of an existing 65 foot high red oak tree.

Location: DublinSize: 68,000 sq ftValue: £8 millionType: OfficesN to G: 86%Grid: 7.5m x 7.5m

Burlington PlazaThe redevelopment at the prestigious address will provide Grade A office space in two separate blocks over a basement carpark. The blocks are separated by a landscaped garden at lower level and a new public entrance plaza at street level.

Location: DublinSize: 310,000 sq ftValue: £63 millionClient: Coolbrook LtdType: OfficesN to G: 83%Grid: 9m x 9m

Fore StreetThe practice has designed this challenging site to comply with sustainability regulations while maximising floor space and the use of daylight. The outcome is an iconic building, featuring green-terraced roof garden tiers stepping back from the Barbican.

Location: LondonSize: 380,000 sq ftValue: £74 millionClient: TelerealType: OfficesN to G: 85%Grid: 7.5m x 7.5/9m

The HiveThe initial commission was to provide a development framework which was agreeable to Manchester City Council and adjacent land owners. This soon developed into masterplanning the entire site and the design and delivery of the largest building on the site, The Hive.

Location: ManchesterSize: 135,000 sq ftValue: £12 millionClient: Argent Group plcType: OfficesN to G: 83%Grid: 7.5m x 6m

HKR : OFFICES

Our Offices

dublinhkr architects 5 Schoolhouse Lane, Dublin 2, Ireland. T: +353 (0)1 663 6400 F: +353 (0)1 663 6401 E: [email protected]

london hkr architects Studio 7, Wootton Street, London SE1 8TG, UK. T: +44 (0)20 7902 2770 F: +44 (0)20 7902 2771 E: [email protected]

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praguehkr prague s.r.o. Myslbek, Na Príkope 19, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic. T: +420 234 718 600 F: +420 234 718 699 E: [email protected]

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OUR CLIENTS — 02 IRELAND : A CAFFERKEY DEVELOPMENTS : ACC BANK : ADEPT CONSULTING : ADVANTAGE TECHNICAL CONSULTING : AGAR ESTATE AGENTS : AIB :

ALANIS : ALBION ENTERPRISES : ALBURN : ALDAR PROPERTIES PJSC : ALEXANDER & LAW : ALLIED LONDON : AMICUS GROUP : ANALYTIC : ANDOREY DEVELOPMENTS :

ANGLO IRISH BANK : API : APSYS : ARGENT GROUP : ARNOLD COMMERCIAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT : ARNOTTS : ARTHUR COX : ARTISAN : ASCON ROHCON : AWAS

IRELAND : AWG : AZTEC PROPERTIES : BALLYMUN REGENERATION : BANK OF IRELAND : BANK OF SCOTLAND : BANNON COMMERCIAL : BARBARY : BARRATT WEST LONDON

: BARRETSTOWN : BEARING POINT : BELLWAY : BENNETT DEVELOPMENTS : BERMONDSEY DEVELOPMENTS : BEWLEYS : BIBLICO HOLDINGS : BL BEARA : BLACK HOLDINGS

: BLACKTIE : BOND DAVIDSON : BOVALE DEVELOPMENTS : BOWEN CONSTRUCTION : BRAY TOWN COUNCIL : BRIAN O’DONNELL & PARTNERS : BRIDE STREET PARTNERSHIP

: BRITE SAVERS : BRITISH LAND : BROADFIELD DEVELOPMENTS : BROOKES PARTNERSHIP : BRUNTWOOD : BURKE STAUNTON PARTNERSHIP : BURKEWAY CONSTRUCTION :

BYRNE GROUP : C&G LOGISTICS : CAMPION PROPERTY CONSULTANTS : CARRICKHILL DEVELOPMENTS : CASTLEKEEL : CASTLEQUAY PROPERTY HOLDINGS : CASTLEROCK

MOTORS : CASTLETHORN CONSTRUCTION : CENTROS MILLER : CHARLEMONT CLINIC : CHARTBUSTERS : CHARTER MEDICAL : CHESTERBRIDGE : CHURCHTOWN

PARTNERSHIP : CIT : CITYGROVE : CLARENDON PROPERTIES : CLEARY DOYLE : CLIFDEN PROPERTY HOLDINGS : CLONTARF CASTLE LODGE : COLUMBIA GROUP : COMO

GROUP : CORCORAN JENNISON : CORKE ABBEY INVESTMENTS LTD : CRE8 : CROWNWAY INVESTMENTS : D&L PROPERTIES : DAISYHILL PROPERTIES : DAKOTA GROUP :

DAMESFIELD : DAMIEN TANSEY & ASSOCIATES : DANCE IRELAND : DASNOC : DAVY HICKEY PROPERTIES : DAVYS : DE VERE GROUP : DEANSGRANGE BUILDERS : DELANEY

LOCKE & THORPE : DELOITTE : DEPFA BANK : DILLON EUSTACE : DMG SERVICES : DRIMNAGH PROPERTY : DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL : DUBLIN DOCKLANDS DEVELOPMENT

AUTHORITY : DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY : DUIGNAN MCCARTHY : DURKAN GROUP : E&M : EARLSFORT GROUP : EARTHQUAKE PROPERTY PARTNERS : EIRCOM :

ELAN GROUP : ELECTROTECH : ELENCO ENGINEERING : EQUITY PROPERTIES : ERGO : ESB : EUROCARE INTERNATIONAL : EXPLORE INVESTMENTS : FANNIN HEALTHCARE :

FARRINGDON PROPERTIES SARL : FEBVRE & CO : FIDUCIA GROUP : FINANSU KONSULTACIJU BIROJS : FINEOS : FITZGERALD GROUP : FKS PARTNERSHIP : FLORENCE PROPERTIES

: FULCRUM : FUSANO PROPERTIES : G&T CRAMPTON : GALDEVAR CONSULTANTS : GANNON HOMES : GEORGE WIMPEY : GERRY DEANE PARTNERSHIP : GILMAC BUILDING

SERVICES : GILROY GANNON : GLE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS : GLENBARD CONSTRUCTION : GLENKERRIN HOMES : GLENKERRIN PROPERTY UK LTD : GLENRYE PROPERTIES

: GRANGEFIELD ESTATES : GRATTAN PROPERTIES : GRAYLING : GREEN PROPERTY : GRIFFIN GROUP : HABITAT FOR HUMANITY : HAMMONDS SOLICITORS : HARCOURT

DEVELOPMENTS : HBG : HEALTH BOARDS EXECUTIVE : HENDERSON GLOBAL INVESTORS : HEX CAPITAL : HIBERNIAN INSURANCE : HIGHSTEAD PROPERTIES : HILLVIEW

DEVELOPMENTS : HORTON L&M : HORUS CAPITAL : HOWARD HOLDINGS : HUGH JORDAN & CO : INTERLOCK : INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTRE : IRISH AMERICAN

MANAGEMENT : IRISH DEVELOPMENTS : IRISH LIFE ASSURANCE : IRISH PRISON SERVICES : IRISH PROPERTY UNIT TRUST : ISAACS HOTEL : J SISK & SON : JACOB FRUITFIELD

: JERMON DEVELOPMENTS : JJ STAFFORD ENGINEERING : JOHN FLEMING CONSTRUCTION : JOHNSON & JOHNSON : JP DEVELOPMENTS : JPC PARTNERSHIP : JURYS HOTELS

: KARLEIGH : KEADEEN HOTEL : KENMORE PROPERTY GROUP : KEYSTREET DEVELOPMENTS : KILBERRY GROUP PROPERTIES : KINGSWOOD LANE DEVELOPMTS : KNIFE EDGE

DEVELOPMENTS : KOMADY : LAING O’ROURKE : LALCO DEVELOPMENTS : LANDMARK DEVELOPMENTS : LINDEN DEVELOPMENTS : LIONCOURT CAPITAL : LONDON

BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM : LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK : M&G HOMES : MACDONALD EGAN DEVELOPMENTS : MANKATO : MAPLEWOOD DEVELOPMENTS :

MARKET HAVEN : MARKLAND HOLDINGS : MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL : MAX RE EUROPE : MAXOL : MAZARS : MCALISTER HOLDINGS : MCCABE BUILDERS : MCGOVERNS

: MCGRATH GROUP : MCINERNEY DEVELOPMENTS : MEELICK PARTNERSHIP : MERCURY HEALTH : MICHAEL MCNAMARA & CO : MILLBANK DEVELOPMENTS : MJF PROPERTY

DEVELOPMENTS : MORAN HOTELS : MORLEY FUND MANAGEMENT : MOUNTBROOK DEVELOPMENTS : MULTIPLEX : NALTMORE LTD : NEWLYN DEVELOPMENTS : NIKAL

PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS : O’CALLAGHAN HOTELS : O’CONNOR GROUP : O’DONNELL PROPERTIES : OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS : OKR GROUP : ONE IN FOUR : O’REILLY

CONSULTING : ORLYNN HOMES : OSPREY PROPERTY : OXFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL : P ELLIOTT & CO : P FITZGERALD & CO : P J MCGRATH & CO : PAMARETTE : PARKWAY

PROPERTIES : PARTNERSHIPS FOR SCHOOLS : PBN HOLDINGS : PEABODY TRUST : PECAN PROPERTIES : PEEL HOLDINGS : PETER LEONARD & CO : PETROGAS GROUP :

PHOTOLOGIC : PIERSE CONTRACTING : PINSENT MASONS : PIRIN GROUP : PIZZARO : PNPC : PORTOBELLO COLLEGE : PRAGMA MANAGEMENT : PREM GROUP : PROPERTY

ALLIANCE GROUP : PRUDENTIAL : QUINLAN PRIVATE : QUINLAN PRIVATE GOLUB : QUINN GROUP : RAMMON GROUP : REDHILL PROPERTIES : REDQUARTZ BOUNDARY :

REDWOOD PROPERTIES : REMAX PROPERTY SERVICES : RHONELLEN DEVELOPMENTS : RICHMOND PARTNERSHIP : RINEVIEW DEVELOPMENTS : RIVERVIEW RACKET &

TENNIS CLUB : ROHAN HOLDINGS : ROK GROUP : ROSBERG PARTNERS : ROSEBERRY HOMES : ROSEPARK DEVELOPMENT CO : ROSSLYN : ROTUMA : ROYAL & SUN ALLIANCE :

ROYAL LONDON ASSET MANAGEMENT : ROYAL ST GEORGE YACHT CLUB : ROYCETON : RUSSELLS CONTRACTORS : SAINSBURY : SALMON DEVELOPMENTS : SANDALL :

SANDYFORD FORUM DEVELOPMENTS : SAWGRASS : SEAN CONDON DEVELOPMENTS : SHANKILL TENNIS CLUB : SHEEHAN & CO : SHELMAN PROPERTIES : SHIELDPOINT :

SIAC : SIEMENS : SIGNATURE CAPITAL : SMITH FOY : SOFTCO : SOFTECH : SOMMERTON PROPERTIES : SOUTH COUNTY DEVELOPMENTS : SPACE DEVELOPMENTS :

SPACEWORKS : SPAIN COURTNEY DOYLE : ST RAPHAEL’S GARDA CREDIT UNION : STAFFORD GROUP : STATION HOUSE PROPERTIES : STATOIL : STEREAME PARTNERSHIP :

SUNDAYS WELL PROPERTIES : SUNTEC HOMES : TAGGART HOLDINGS : TEDCASTLE HOLDINGS : TELEREAL : THE HEALTH PARTNERSHIP : THE ROSE PROJECT : THE SHELBOURNE

HOTEL : THOMAS THOMPSON HOLDINGS : TIERNAN PROPERTIES : TIFFEN DEVELOPMENTS : TOM COYLE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT : TONABRUCKY CONSTRUCTION : TORC

GROUP : TOWER GATE DEVELOPMENTS : TRANSLLOYD DEVELOPMENTS : TREASURY HOLDINGS : TRINITY BIOTECH : TRINITY HOTELS : TRINTECH GROUP : TUDORVALE

PROPERTIES : UK LAND AND PROPERTY : UNICORN HOMES : UNITED UTILITIES : UNIVERSAL INNOVATIONS : UPDATE TECHNOLOGIES : UPLANDS : VICTORIA HOMES : VISION

DEVELOPMENT CO : VULCAN MANAGEMENT : WALSH & MCCABE : WALSH MAGUIRE & CO : WATERLOO QUARTER BUSINESS ALLIANCE : WCI COMMUNITIES : WESTERN

RIDGE PROPERTIES : WESTHILL INVESTMENTS : WEXELE : WHITECASTLE DEVELOPMENTS : WHITFIELD DEVELOPMENTS : WILLIAM FRY : WILLIAM HARVEY & CO : WINDOVER

DEVELOPMENTS : WINDSOR CAR MOTORS : WOODBRIDGE DEVELOPMENTS : WOODIES : WRIGHT GROUP : ZELDA PROPERTIES : ZONE DEVELOPMENTS : ZURICH BANK :

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