Burges Salmon
The suspended lighting creates the illusion of a ground floor streetscape with a lowered ceiling level; defining the new space and creating more intimate people-focused settings, with a wonderful atmosphere in evening and low daylight situations.
Audrey Cowan
Operations Manager at independent UK law firm Burges Salmon
Sector: Commercial
Client: Burges Salmon
Location: Bristol
Architect: AWW
Lighting Design: One Eighty Light
Lighting Partners: Zero
Photography: Kenton Simons - Story Photography
Burges Salmon’s headquarters were tailored towards the exact requirements of their established law firm. With its prominent waterfront location and undulating terracotta, zinc and glass façade, One Glass Wharf makes an individual and exciting impression to the city’s business quarter.
Six storeys of office accommodation and food & drink offers are arranged around a central atrium, which is crossed by a huge entrance ‘slot’. This houses a spectacular helical stair and forms one of three key axes illustrated by the site’s original masterplan. Light and airy, this space maintains a visual link for those outside the building, whilst a fifth-floor terrace affords stunning panoramic views across the city for staff and clients.
Helping to create a warm, intimate and informal workspace, Daikanyama pendants from Zero were suspended in the atrium to guide people through the space, and provide a visually interesting human scale environment.
“Burges Salmon wanted to transform the atrium at One Glass Wharf into a new space for its people and clients. The installation of festoon lighting helped us reinvent the atrium space into an ‘outdoors’ collaboration area with a variety of flexible works settings. The suspended lighting creates the illusion of a ground floor streetscape with a lowered ceiling level; defining the new space and creating more intimate people-focused settings, with a wonderful atmosphere in evening and low daylight situations.” Audrey Cowan, Operations Manager at independent UK law firm Burges Salmon
