Unknown Works signed the lease for its first studio in February 2020. The vaulted double-height space overlooking Gillett Square in Dalston, east London - with a separate meeting room - was bigger than the team needed so it always planned to let a few desks. But as the globe plunged into Covid lockdown, what's interesting is what the practice did next. To cover the shortfall in rent, the directors went out to the hotchpotch square to ask if any of the small businesses and organisations there needed help from an architect. Amazingly, it worked. One client that came out of it, the Vortex Jazz Club, moved back into its newly refurbished venue last November; acoustic work had already been done.
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