Dashwood is a boutique tower in an unrivalled City location, providing a unique choice of workspaces; Blank Canvas, Customised and Myo, across 17 floors - all built for a sustainable future.

Dashwood is a boutique tower at an unrivalled City location that provides a unique choice of workspaces: Blank Canvas, Customised or Myo, designed to address customer needs today, and in the future.

Dashwood is perfectly located in EC2, in the very heart of one of London’s most vibrant districts, surrounded by award-winning restaurants, bars, characterful pubs, shops and famous markets.

An elegant newly refurbished reception welcomes visitors into a transformed business lounge, with ample space to meet in the stylish café bar and landscaped terrace. Designed with wellbeing in mind, the building’s geometric frame features floor-to-ceiling, windows and a high-performance sleek exterior to control light and heat, and healthy commuting is supported by basement showers, 100 cycle storage racks, folding bicycle boxes and 140 lockers.

As the UK’s largest commercial property company, Landsec taps its wealth of experience to deliver a variety of bespoke office spaces to Dashwood customers, with Grade A Blank Canvas, fitted-out Customised, and fully flexible Myo workspaces. This approach was conceived with a customer-centric mindset and addresses the modern world’s need for a completely adaptable workplace. Furthermore, the WELL Standard has been applied throughout, with accreditation pending for Myo.

The solutions at Dashwood can adapt with a customer’s business, enabling them to take full control with Blank Canvas, utilise Landsec’s design and management experience with Customised or take a flexible serviced office space at Myo.

Customers are encouraged to collaborate with Landsec’s expert team to plan the fit-out and level of management that suits them. The Customised proposition offers high specification, self-contained offices that are ready to move into with a range of ongoing managed services.

Myo is the full package: private offices on short-term leases, tailored to customer needs and set around design-led, shared spaces for the ultimate in flexibility, and includes dedicated on-site concierge, refreshments and bookable meeting rooms.

Dashwood is a sustainable development, with flexibility at its core, designed for every type of office customer.

This project was the first time we have delivered all three of our office products simultaneously within one building whilst upgrading the buildings core amenities. We have redesigned and activated the reception, introduced new end of trip facilities and refurbished over 120,000 sq.ft of office space.

With all three office products being delivered within the one building simultaneously alongside the impacts of COVID and Brexit, we have certainly had some challenges and many learnings, here are a few.
As the first lockdown hit us, we were completing the design on the Blank Canvas works and in the middle of the MYO design process. The design team quickly adapted to being virtual and it’s fair to say that working virtually through that stage of the process proved to be quite efficient. We were lucky in that the teams had been set up pre-COVID and the concept designs were set. Both of the construction tenders were online and we were introducing new suppliers which we did find challenging not being face to face.

Onsite Dashwood struggles with vertical transport for large goods and materials, COVID made it harder and far more space had to be set aside on floor for welfare areas. In MYO we have introduced a staircase between levels 7 and 8 and this necessitated an external scaffold and hoist. Works were also running alongside occupied floors which is BAU for us, but floors and basement under construction heavily outweighed occupied floors.

This was the first time that we designed a Customised offer alongside a fresh Blank Canvas. A key driver was to ensure that the CAT B delivery was as efficient as possible with no wastage to a completed CAT A installation. We designed in 3D and really challenged the Blank Canvas design to ensure that it accepts a Customised day two delivery with no alterations. We have analysed the floor that has been delivered and identified where we can streamline and improve the build of future floors.

Customised itself has been a huge learning experience so far, we have delivered the show floor as the core offer and also developed a digital tool for customers to be able to visualise the various pre-designed layout and furniture options. It is a customisable product that could be applied to 9 further floors rather than a one-off construction project, a bit of a mindset shift, and are all really happy with the end result.

Myo Liverpool Street is our second site and we put a lot of effort into space planning the four floors considering all of the data driven learning from Myo in Victoria. A big stakeholder team has scrutinised every inch of space usage, it is great to work so closely with the team that will lease and operate the space. The WELL standard has been applied to everything at Dashwood but we will be taking it through to accreditation at Myo. The team have had to navigate the changing WELL versions as well as its US colloquialisms. It’s added a considerable workload across the board but it has driven innovation, the adoption of new products and made everyone really conscious of the impact of their design and construction decisions. Our own office is WELL-certified and I am really looking forward to working in the Myo space as I think it is going to be next level.

Charlie Railton
Portfolio Projects Director
Landsec