1 Triton Square transforms a 1990s office into a sustainable technology and innovation hub, combining high-performance infrastructure, flexible workplaces and social spaces.

1 Triton Square transforms a late-1990s office building into a next-generation technology and innovation hub within London’s Knowledge Quarter.

Commissioned by British Land and Royal London, the project establishes a new model for retrofit led workplace design, combining highperformance infrastructure, flexible work environments, and social spaces within a highly sustainable redevelopment.

Designed to support organisations ranging from start-ups to established international firms, the building provides adaptable workspaces, innovation areas, offices, and shared amenities within a modular planning framework that enables occupiers to expand, contract, or combine spaces with minimal intervention. Enhanced servicing capacity and futureready infrastructure strategies provide flexibility for evolving occupier requirements, including the potential integration of laboratory uses over time.

The project re-imagines the existing building’s deep floorplates and central atrium to create a more connected, collaborative, and humancentred environment. At the heart of the scheme, the atrium becomes a vibrant communal destination supporting interaction, events, and shared experiences across different occupiers. Significant structural interventions enabled the introduction of suspended pods, integrated planting, and a sculptural spiral staircase, transforming the atrium into a defining architectural and social feature of the building.

A defining ambition of the project is to humanise the workplace environment. Warm, tactile materials and hospitality-inspired interiors are combined with highly serviced infrastructure to create environments that support wellbeing, neurodiversity, and a wide range of working styles.

Sustainability is embedded throughout the project through the retention and upgrade of the existing structure, significantly reducing embodied carbon. Circular economy principles informed the fit-out strategy, including reuse initiatives and the implementation of a material passporting testing platform to support future disassembly and reuse.

1 Triton Square demonstrates how retrofit, workplace, and technology-led design can come together to create a future-focused environment centred on innovation, adaptability, wellbeing, and long-term sustainability.