ANGEL BUILDING —— 407 ST JOHN STREET, EC1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 6 THE LOCALITY 8 A SENSE OF ARRIVAL 16 THE ANGEL KITCHEN 18 ART AT ANGEL 20 OFFICE FLOORS 24 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 30 SUSTAINABILITY 32 LANDSCAPING 34 CANCER RESEARCH UK 36 AHMM COLLABORATION 40 SOURCES OF INSPIRATION 42 DERWENT LONDON 44 PROFESSIONAL TEAM 46 Angel Building 2 / 3 Angel Building 4 / 5 Located in EC1, the building commands the WELCOME TO heights midway between the financial hub of the City of London and the international rail THE ANGEL BUILDING interchange and development area of King’s Cross —— St. Pancras. With easy access to the West End, it’s at the heart of one of London’s liveliest historic The Angel Building is all about improving radically urban villages, with a complete range of shops, on the thinking of the past, to provide the best restaurants, markets and excellent transport possible office environment for today. A restrained links right outside. The Angel Building brings a piece of enlightened modern architecture by distinguished new dimension to the area. award-winning architects AHMM, it contains over 250,000 sq ft (NIA) of exceptional office space. With a remarkable atrium, fine café, and ‘IT’S A GOOD PLACE exclusively-commissioned works of contemporary TO BE’ art, it also enjoys exceptional views from its THE ANGEL enormous rooftop terraces. Above all, this is where This is a building carefully made to greatly reduce the City meets the West End. The Angel Building its carbon footprint – in construction and in is a new addition to this important intersection operation. It is highly efficient to run, as befits of London. a Grade A office and retail building built for the second decade of the 21st century. The tangible BUILDING IS ALL and outstanding merits of this building were clear even at design and construction stage; in a period [ 1 ] of economic downturn a key pre-let was acheived to Cancer Research UK, one of the UK’s leading and most active charities. And on the urban scale, it restores and enlivens the top end of Islington’s ABOUT IMPROVING historic St John Street, leading down to Farringdon and Smithfield. It’s a good place to be. [ 1 ] Reception featuring marble Terrazzo floor. [ 2 ] Reception featuring Dinesen wood and Bill Amberg leather wall. RADICALLY [ 2 ] ON THE THINKING OF THE PAST, TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT FOR TODAY Angel Building 6 / 7 ‘CLERKENWELL AND A HISTORIC NEIGHBOURING ISLINGTON HAVE DESTINATION DEVELOPMENTS FLOURISHED AS A —— —— COMMERCIAL CENTRE The story of this area goes back centuries, to the Other significant new developments are nearby. time when Clerkenwell and Islington were rural Southwards, Clerkenwell and Islington have IN RECENT YEARS, villages just outside London, their churches and flourished as commercial centres in recent years, greens close to the main route north out of town. especially for the creative industries. To the west ESPECIALLY FOR THE Here the wells and springs of Sadler’s Wells had you find new developments including the Regent become pleasure gardens for the townsfolk. Quarter, 210 Pentonville Road, and the enormous CREATIVE INDUSTRIES’ Meanwhile the “Angel” itself was a coaching inn mixed-use King’s Cross Central: to the east on the crossroads, mentioned by Dickens in are the equally ambitious proposed waterside Oliver Twist. developments of City Road Basin, and the Old Street neighbourhood – where Derwent London is In early Jacobean times, the area had become directly involved. With the Angel Building standing strategically important as the terminus of the at the mid point of this development corridor, “New River”, a 38-mile man-made watercourse this is an area that is commercially constantly [ 1 ] bringing fresh water into London from the springs evolving, rapidly forming a chain that links the City of Hertfordshire. The New River Company later to the West End. became an important property developer, laying [ 1 ] Business Design Centre, Upper Street. out new streets and squares around its former [ 2 ] Ottolenghi, Upper Street. terminus. In the 1970s, the company was taken [ 3 ] My Sugarland, St John Street. over by London Merchant Securities or LMS, which [ 4 ] Eurostar, St Pancras. a few years later built the original Angel Centre on its land. In 2007 LMS merged with the younger Derwent Valley Holdings to become Derwent London, the largest real-estate investment company in the capital. The regeneration of the Angel Centre was at the top of the new company’s wish-list. The ambitious new Angel Building is the result. THE LOCALITY [ 4 ] CLERKENWELL AND ISLINGTON [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Angel Building 8 / 9 [ 1 ] Frae Organic Frozen Yoghurt, Camden Passage. [ 2 ] Danny Oh, Camden Passage. [ 3 ] Round Midnight Jazz & Blues Bar, Liverpool Road. ON YOUR DOORSTEP FOOD & FASHION [ 4 ] Elk in the Woods, Camden Passage. [ 5 ] Byron, Upper Street. —— —— Stroll down St John Street into the historic and You’ll find an established high street with shops creative quarter of Islington or fork right, down including both eclectic independents and well- Rosebery Avenue to the legal enclave of Gray’s known brands. There is an incredible variety of Inn, and so on to Holborn. While just to your north restaurants around the Angel Building, at all are all the facilities of the lively Clerkenwell district levels from fast-and-friendly through gastropubs itself. As you’ll soon discover, the Angel Building for casual dining to haute cuisine. Coffee shops is at the centre of an extraordinarily diverse and abound, including the excellent Euphorium rewarding district. Bakery. These sit cheek by jowl with a fine selection of fashion shops, ranging from many independent outlets – including vintage and designer-makers like My Sugarland opposite – through to high street names in the new N1 [ 1 ] AS YOU’LL Islington five minutes away. ‘THERE IS AN INCREDIBLE VARIETY OF SOON DISCOVER, RESTAURANTS AROUND [ 4 ] THE ANGEL BUILDING’ You’ll find Ghost, Toast, and Marks & Spencer in the immediate vicinity. Don’t forget the famous THE ANGEL Camden Passage antiques market, with the highly- regarded Frederick’s restaurant right alongside. Just across the road and off Liverpool Road is Chapel Market, for clothes, fresh produce, and more – with Waitrose and Sainsbury’s BUILDING IS AT THE supermarkets close by for lunchtime or after-work shopping. All the main banking names are here too. The retail therapy continues uninterrupted past Clerkenwell Green, right up Upper Street to Highbury. While in the other direction, it’s not far to the restaurant quarters of Exmouth Market (Moro) CENTRE OF AN and Smithfield (St John) among many others. EXTRAORDINARILY [ 5 ] DIVERSE [ 2 ] AND REWARDING DISTRICT [ 3 ] Angel Building 10 / 11 Walking distance: 05 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes 20 minutes Source: walkit.com [ 1 ] SADLER’S WELLS THEATRE SCREEN ON THE GREEN ALMEIDA THEATRE & OPERA HOUSE CULTURE —— CONNECTIVITY [ 2 ] Movies? The N1 Centre1 gives you the mainstream —— movies, while the historic Screen on the Green2 KINGS PLACE is the flourishing local arthouse cinema. Trade The historic crossroads of the Angel, between 3 shows? The Business Design Centre , just off the central and eastern sectors of the capital, make Green, stages some of the best. Theatre? There’s it well connected today too. Its Underground 4 [ 4 ] the acclaimed Almeida Theatre and Opera House , station is one of the most modern and spacious 5 the pub theatres of the Old Red Lion (directly on the network. One stop west (a 3-minute hop) 6 opposite the Angel Building) and the King’s Head takes you to King’s Cross St Pancras, and thence on Upper Street. Modern dance and much more is via high-speed train to Europe; two stops and five catered for, of course, by the internationally famous minutes the other way and you’re in the City at 7 Sadler’s Wells Theatre , very close by. A little Moorgate: one more short stop finds you at Bank. further afield, one tube stop west or a walk through Four stops and 13 minutes takes you to Oxford 8 [ 3 ] the backstreets brings you to Kings Place on York Circus. With the main commuter hubs of London Way, London’s newest concert hall (for chamber Bridge, Liverpool Street and Waterloo between music plus contemporary music, jazz and comedy). 9 and 17 minutes distant, transport to and from work is easy. The art galleries and hangouts in Hoxton and Shoredtich are one tube stop east – get off at Old Airports are readily accessible. Fastest official 9 10 Street . The same stop is good for LSO St Luke’s , times are 35 minutes from Angel to London City the marvellous converted 18th century church Airport, 50 minutes to Gatwick, and an hour to that is the second home of the London Symphony either Heathrow or Stansted. By train, central Paris Orchestra and is noted for its lunchtime concerts. is 2 hours 15 minutes from nearby King’s Cross St It’s also a conference venue and has an excellent Pancras, Brussels is 2 hours. restaurant and café. And all these diverse cultural strands – film, theatre, dance, music, art - come [ 1 ] Bobbin Bicycles, St John Street. 11 [ 2 ] Screen on the Green, Upper Street. together in the mighty Barbican Arts Centre to [ 3 ] Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue. the south-east. [ 4 ] Eurostar, St Pancras. Angel Building 12 / 13 Angel Building 14 / 15 A PERMEABLE FAÇADE ARRIVAL & ATRIUM —— —— The all-new façade of the Angel Building has A generous double-height entrance directly off opening windows, allowing tenants maximum St John Street, EC1, leads into the architecturally flexibility in their choice of air handling – uplifting heart of the building. The full-height naturally ventilated or (with the windows closed) atrium rises up through all five floors to a mechanically ventilated and cooled/warmed via cruciform roof structure sealed with translucent, the building’s low-energy displacement ventilation energy-saving ETFE inflated ‘pillows’.