Angel Square reinvents a prominent corner site, retaining 80% of the existing concrete structure to provide affordable flexible working environments with low operational energy demands.

Angel Square is a mixed-use, office-led redevelopment at the gateway to Angel, Islington, reimagining a constrained 1980s building through a strategy of structural reuse, environmental upgrade and public realm repair. Built directly over Angel Underground Station, the scheme retains c.80% of the original concrete frame, basement and foundations to transform a previously inward-looking site into a permeable and engaged piece of city.

The new, prominent entrance to the workspace improves accessibility and visibility. This is complemented by the office lobby with publicly accessible café entered via City Road which further engages with the local community. The design pulls back the building line along Islington High Street and City Road to widen pavements, easing congestion and enhancing pedestrian flow.

A redesigned public house, new cycle access and entrances to affordable workspace along Torrens Street with the previously hidden route through the site reimagined as a legible, fully accessible connection linking key streets through a vibrant courtyard, balancing transparency and solidity to enrich the streetscape character, support passive surveillance and diversify the public realm.

Carbon reduction was integral to create a hardworking building. The existing structure has been selectively extended, infilled and supplemented with new structure at roof level to meet contemporary workspace requirements. Multiple existing cores have been removed and replaced with a single, efficient central core, providing flexible, futureproofed floorplates to accommodate a wide range of tenant sizes.

Terraces and outdoor rooms and an extensive rooftop amenity space significantly improve urban greening as well as supporting occupant wellbeing offering a connection to the outdoors at every level. Angel Square demonstrates how architectural design, engineering precision and sustainability can converge to unlock a complex urban site and create an outward looking, landmark new building which works for its users as well as delivering environmental performance.