The Department Store, Brixton

摘要

AFTER 16 YEARS at its King's Cross location, London-based architecture practice Squire and Partners has moved its 220 staff south of the river to a new home in Brixton, called The Department Store. The practice bought a dilapidated Edwardian department store three years ago, formally known as Toplin House, which had formed part of the former Bon Marche department store. It had been a sort of retail dream realised by local businessman James Smith who, in 1876 and inspired by the opulence of the original Parisian Bon Marche brought a bit of it to Brixton.