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The project responds to the historic setting through the design of a contemporary building with a massing that is seen as a co-ordinated assembly of forms. Thus, individual parts of the scheme achieve a specific balance with neighbouring buildings and streets.
The project was for a nine-storey building, bounded by four main streets (from North clockwise) Gresham Street, Lawrence Lane, Russia Row/ Trump Street, Milk Street.
The concept of one distinct solution for the curtain walling on each façade did not apply to this project. The three main cladding materials: glass, aluminium and stone are noticeably separate from each other.
On plan the building has an irregular arrangement, with a curved corner and façade that follows the angle at Gresham Street and preserves the urban space in front the Guildhall and Lawrence Jewry Street. The building is partly clad with "punched windows" inserted into the stone clad north elevation. The main curtain walling of the other elevations, consists of glazed and aluminium façades. All the façade types are projecting from the building plan for the first 5 floors and then change their geometry on the 6th, 7th and 8th floors where they are recessed. This solution reduces the visual impact of the building from Lawrence Jewry Street.
