JRA, Foundation Partners of LandAid

John Robertson Architects are now Foundation Partners of LandAid, the UK property industry charity.  

LandAid aims to help the young and disadvantaged access the facilities, skills, and opportunities to achieve their potential and thrive within their local community by making the most effective and innovative use of the property industry’s resources, expertise and influence.

NLA on Location. No Tie Zone: Tech City 1

On Tuesday 24th April 2012, the NLA are holding an On Location event; No Tie Zone: Tech City 1, which will discuss and examine the current activity of digital businesses around Old Street and Shoreditch.

This event will bring together key developers, architects, occupiers, investors and policy makers and will be followed by an afternoon of walking tours, visiting new architecture and developments of interest, including JRA's recent refurbishment and fit out of the Grade II Listed chapel, 6 Chapel Place, the new headquarters of young IT business provider and online publisher, brightsolid.

6 Chapel Place, London EC2

JRA has successfully completed the interior design and fit out of 6 Chapel Place, a Grade II listed mid nineteenth century chapel in Shoreditch, London.

JRA was commissioned by Scottish publishing house, D.C. Thomson Ltd to transform the 850sqm chapel into a new headquarters and high-tech office space for their subsidiary, brightsolid, a young IT business provider and online publisher of Friends Reunited and Find My Past.

JRA worked closely with brightsolid's design consultant Ric Russell of Nicoll Russell Studios to develop the interior design for the building including a new atrium which creates visual connections between all three office floors, and bespoke design lighting rafts and exposed air-ducts. Together with exposed concrete soffits, and wall graphics by Lauren Rennet of Elastic Creative, the effect echoes the local edgy-urban, design-led environment of this part of East London.