The Home Office, Marsham Street
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View from Marsham Street
Headquarters for the Home Office in central London, situated on the site of the former 1960s Department of Environment building
The principle objective of the masterplan was to integrate a large government office building with public spaces orientated towards the street in order to maximise accessibility.
Three areas of ‘pocket parks’ create additional external space and views for office workers. A naturally lit internal ‘street’ runs the length of the three buildings and has shared resource activities – library, quiet rooms, café, print shop, access to pocket parks and reception.
This organising central axis provides a general meeting place for office workers, aiding good working practices. The scheme provides a flexible and cost-effective headquarters building and aims to foster a diverse new community-orientated district.
Data
- Begun: Mar 2002
- Completed: Jan 2005
- Floor area: 71m2
- Sectors: Civic, Office
- Total cost: £311M
- Funding: Private
- Tender date: Mar 2002
- Procurement: PFI
- Address: 2 Marsham Street, Westminister, London, SW1P 4DF, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Terry Farrell and Partners
- Client: Annes Gate Property/Buoygues
- Structural engineer: Pell Frischmann
- Mechanical and Electrical Engineer: Battle McCarthy
- Interior Designer : DEGW
- Landscape architect: Lovejoy
- Acoustic consultant: Bickerdike Allen
- Artificial Lighting Consultant: DHA Design Services
Suppliers
- Structural and architectural metalwork : Simran Engineering Works
- Concrete structure: Axiom
- Demountable and fixed glazing: Chrome Engineering
- Soft-landscape consultant: VolkerFitzpatrick
- Landscape architect: Kvadrat
- Architectural glazing: Southdown Construction
