NLA workplace trends – Tower Hamlets Town Hall
In the build-up to the NLA Workplace Summit 2025, Associate Director Michela Mangiarotti shares her insights on workplace trends and the retrofit of Tower Hamlets Town Hall, recently featured in an article for NLA – Workplace Trends: Regenerating through decarbonisation and reconnection. This article forms part of a series from across the built environment industry to showcase the future of the workplace.
Read the opening below:
At Atelier Ten, we believe the future of workplace lies in regenerating existing assets, improving carbon and environmental performance, functionality, user experience and social value. Our starting point is always understanding the opportunities and constraints of existing buildings to provide cost-effective and innovative solutions for the reduction of embodied and operational carbon emissions, whilst providing comfortable and healthy environments for the future occupants.
The Tower Hamlets Town Hall, which we worked on alongside AHMM, adapts the Grade II-listed Royal London Hospital in London with a strong focus on decarbonisation. The project pioneered all-electric solutions (including air source and water-to-water heat pumps and induction hobs) in London, when fossil fuel-sourced heating, cooling and cooking systems were the policy-compliant norm. Extensive engagement with the local planning authority since project inception in 2016 allowed us to shift the mindset towards what was an innovative solution back then, but which was subsequently adopted by the London Plan in 2021 as the preferred option.
One of the greatest challenges was understanding…
You can continue to read the full article originally published by NLA, here.
