Bourne Hill Offices

Status: 2010
Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire

Client: Salisbury District Council
Value: £15.8m

 

“Wiltshire’s council offices set a high benchmark for civic building in the twenty-first century.”Ian Latham in Architecture Today magazine

"The project has been an exciting pilot for the Council's Workplace Transformation Programme, and the building has provided a genuine step change in the way in which the Council provides office accommodation to staff in the South of Wiltshire. The building provides a stunning workplace, that respects and complements the historic and natural environment in which it is set. It sets the bar high for the remainder of the Council's office property."Neil Ward, Head of Strategic Property Services

 

Stanton Williams were commissioned to design new offices for Wiltshire Council on a sensitive historic site at Bourne Hill, Salisbury.

The new Council building is a marriage of a new building and the restored Grade II* listed Bourne Hill House. The new building has 2600m² of flexible, open plan offices that enjoy generous views of the surrounding gardens. Externally, it is given presence and scale by a full-height colonnade set in front of its glazed elevations and there is thus a strong relationship between the architecture and the external landscape.

The design incorporates an integral low-energy strategy in order to achieve an ‘excellent’ BREEAM rating.

Bourne Hill House has been fully restored. It had been subjected to a series of detrimental external additions and these accretions have been swept away, reinforcing the architectural integrity of the house. On a sensitive site and within an historic city, the final design was arrived at following an extensive process of consultation with the local community and with expert bodies including English Heritage.

 

Awards
2011 RIBA Award
2011 British Council for Offices Award
2010 Salisbury Civic Society Award
2011 Finalist AJ100 Building of the Year Award
2011 Concrete Society Award - Commended
2011 British Construction Industry Award - Highly Commended
2011 Longlisted WAN Civic Building Award
2011 SCALA Civic Building of the Year - Joint winner

 

Credits
Structural Engineers: Adams Kara Taylor
Services Engineers: Max Fordham
Landscape Architects: J&L Gibbons
Conservation Architects: Rodney Melville and Partners
Photography: Hufton+Crow