Redcliff Quay, Bristol

For Standard Life Assurance Company

This development, on an important Conservation Area site on Bristol's Floating Harbour, creates a public piazza and a vista through to the tower of St Thomas's Church. The building re-interprets the spirit of the adjacent warehouse architecture in its overall form, its articulation into a series of linked pavilions, and in the extensive use of balconies which refer to warehouse loading platforms and provides excellent views. A combination of contrasting stonework and brickwork enriches the elevations, further enlivened by the metalwork of balconies and sun shading.