IBM Marketing Centre
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The building from the visitors’ car park, with the computer building to the right and the two-storey marketing building to the left. A covered walkway leads to the entrance pavilion, set astride the circulation routes linking the two buildings
Computer services and marketing centre comprising of two adjacent buildings served by a single-storey central link
The scheme is formed by two adjacent buildings adjoined by a single storey link building that serves as the main entrance, astride the connecting circulation spine. Both buildings contrast in construction, with the single storey computer building constructed from a steel frame, while the two-storey marketing centre has a reinforced concrete frame.
Elevational treatments of the buildings are similar, both with a modular panel system of white vitreous steel cladding adopted to satisfy the brief requirement of a flexible skin.
The interiors are modest and conservative with painted plaster walls and painted blockwork, creating a working atmosphere and exemplifying the professional and downplayed nature of the building.
Data
- Begun: Apr 1976
- Completed: Jun 1979
- Sector: Office
- Address: IBM United Kingdom Limited, Birmingham Road, Warwick, CV34 5JL, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: YRM
- Client: IBM United Kingdom Limited
- Quantity surveyor: Gleeds
- Services engineer: Steensen Varming Milcahy
- Structural engineer: F. J. Samuely & Partners Ltd
- Interior Architects: Duffy Eley Giffone Worthington
- Partner-in-charge: Colin Cave
- Landscape architect: John Allen
- Sound Control: The Wolfson Unit
- Main contractor: Turriff Limited
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