How do you take a grade II listed, 1970s office block with unimaginably deep floor plates and transform it into affordable, low energy residential apartments fit for modern living? That's the challenge that developer Urban Splash threw down to the design team for its latest project, on the outskirts of Bristol. The building in question is the former UK headquarters of Imperial Tobacco. Completed in 1975, it was designed by the American architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill - the architects behind the Sears Tower and the Lever Building in New York.
展开▼
