Project & design lead - Design Engine Architects - 2011

This project was a complete remodelling of the main reception of the Old Building, off Houghton Street, WC2. This is the main entrance foyer to the London School of Economics and its famous theatre, which was in need of a major transformation to meet current security, access and way finding improvements.

Won in a competition, the project includes a new green room for the theatre, toilets, reception and split-level waiting areas.

Central to the scheme are glass cabinets, which clad the existing walls, offering information, signage and inspirational extracts from luminaries’s speeches given from the theatre.

The new interior is announced with a red LED glow to the famous entrance portal and the underside of the linking bridge over Houghton Street.