Medius House in Soho, Sheraton Street

Medius House, Soho Media Offices Design, Sheraton Street Property, Workspace

Medius House in Soho

Sheraton Street Building, central London, UK media office design by Orms

18 Nov 2015

Medius House Soho

Design: Orms, architects

Location: Sheraton Street, Soho, London, England, UK

Orms revitalize former printing warehouse into new venue for media tenants in Soho

Medius House is located on Sheraton Street in the Soho conservation area. It is Grade II listed and was originally built in 1898 as a warehouse for the printing and bookbinding department of Novello Music Publishers.

Medius House in Soho

In 1906, the same architect erected Novello House on the corner of Wardour Street and Sheraton Street to provide offices and a retail outlet for the publishing side of the business; this building has the appearance of a civic building or a guildhall and shows reference to Nordic late Renaissance.

Medius House in Soho

The Orms brief was to transform the entrance, reception and office floors to create a building suited to media tenants in the heart of Soho. The total useable floor area of the building is approximately 60,000 sq ft.

Medius House in Soho

The reception design was created in collaboration with contemporary artist Susie MacMurray who suspended an installation in response to the atrium space, and to the history of music and publishing embedded in the building. Named Chorus, it is made from hundreds of pieces of used sheet music, a number of the manuscripts are works by composers that Novello published and printed within this building, including Elgar, Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn.

The layering and weaving of melodic lines and sound colours are echoed in the reflections and shadows that the piece throws onto the many different surfaces in the space. The variations of density in the composition of the artwork mirror the ebb and flow of musical volume.

The office floors were taken back to their warehouse feel by exposing the structure and sandblasting all the paintwork off the brickwork. The refurbished toilets use floor to ceiling period photographs of the kind of people who would have used the building at the turn of the century.

Medius House in Soho

Medius House in Soho – Building Information

Location: Sheraton Street, Soho, London
Project Sqm: 4,667

Project team:
Architect: Orms
Planning Consultant: DP9
Quantity Surveyor: Turner and Townsend
Services Engineer: Cundall
Artist: Susie MacMurray
Lighting Consultant: Speirs and Major
Main Contractor: Bluu

Medius House in Soho

Photography: Morley Von Sternberg

Medius House in Soho images / information received 181115

Location: Sheraton St, Soho, London, England, UK

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