The practice has been refurbishing and remodelling a building in Glasgow's Tradeston area called the Beco Building.
The Beco was originally built in 1878 as a drapers warehouse and showroom, adapting to support a colourful mix of shops, offices, and warehouse use until in more recent times more nefarious activities took hold.
In recent times the building was considered dangerous and application had been made for its demolition. Historic Environment Scotland objected, and the structure was retained to become part of Barclays Glasgow Campus.
The building is to be occupied by an Eagle Lab, which is essentially enterprise space for emergent small businesses.
The buildings four storey south elevation has a sober character with small deep set windows within a massive sandstone facade, while the north elevation is engineering brick and scaled by a massive red fire escape.
Internally the building has been faithfully refurbished with a 'less is more' approach exposing as much of the original construction as possible.
The north elevation originally had an elaborate metal fire escape stair and an iconic graffiti tag that was reinstated.
The Beco project includes the creation of a new public space, an oasis of calm within this increasingly busy city centre location.
