Built
The completed building, comprising of 46,000 sqft new office floors, retail and gallery space for The Crown Estate, achieves BREEAM Outstanding and retail BREEAM Excellent.
This new contribution to St James’s Conservation Area sits on a prominent corner site just off Piccadilly. The completed building (‘The Marq’), comprising 46,000 sqft new office floors, retail and restaurant space for The Crown Estate has now settled into its context and become a strong but playful addition to Jermyn Street, a historic part of the West End.
Jermyn Street and the surrounding area is well known for its association with fine tailoring, food and wine merchants, restaurants and art galleries. The building is therefore finely detailed and ‘tailored’ with attention to every detail to befit its historic location. Just like Beau Brummell, the streets original Dandy and whose statue greets visitors, The Marq continues to turn heads and capture the attention of on lookers, with its gilded corner artwork and striking entrance gates.
What is not immediately apparent from the outside is the building’s remarkable performance credentials. For the client, health and wellbeing are central guiding principles to their purpose. In response, the building has been designed in collaboration with Watermans Structures and Watkins Payne Partnership, specifically to achieve a Gold rating for WELL Shell and Core Certification. The Marq is one of only two completed WELL ‘Gold’ shell and core buildings in the UK.
The Marq achieved BREEAM ‘Excellent’ for the retail units, and ‘Outstanding’ for the larger office component, as well as a 60% improvement against building regulations targeting CO2 emissions. Roofs are landscaped with biodiverse planting, bird and bat boxes. Rainwater is harvested, filtered, and reused to supply all WCs for flushing purposes throughout the building. Renewable technologies consisting of air source heat pumps, photo voltaic and solar thermal panels contributed towards The Marq’s EPC A.
Rolfe Judd remain committed to developing beautiful buildings, working with their client’s and industry professionals to illustrate how excellent design, technology and development can become carbon neutral.
Project information
Status
Built
Borough
Westminster
Completion
2016
Listed by
Last updated on
31/05/2024
Standard
Standard (small business)
Partner