Film Council Offices, London

The Film Council is an amalgamation of various Government agencies designed to promote the film industry in the UK. As a semi-public organisation, the office space had to be economical. As a front door to creative directors, investors and an image-conscious industry, the building also called for style. Besides requiring enclosed and open office space, meeting rooms and presentation rooms, the brief called for a way in which the new organisation might be melded together. The solution was partly in haa design 's use of colour and the way in which a similar space planning arrangement is interpreted on different floors. It also made use of the common facilities (meeting rooms and boardroom on the ground and basement floors, with break out area on the top floor) as 'book ends' to the general office space.