An opportunity to reimagine the space

The difficulties increased when the pandemic hit, but Coghill has managed to find positives there, too.

'If you're designing and constructing buildings, the one thing you want for a long construction period is to have certainty, and no disruption, and this has been the most disrupted project I've ever worked on,' she says.

The site will be home to around 5,000 colleagues.

However, the shutdown gave Coghill and her team the time and space to re-think and future-proof the building design, changing the way she imagined the space, and steering how work would be carried out safely.

'When we started, the brief was about getting our colleagues into a world-class environment,' she says. 'But with COVID-19, it became about getting them into a world-class environment that's also safe in a pandemic.' The result, she says, is 'the most flexible building I've ever built. We can take any area and turn it into something else, literally within a couple of weeks or even overnight.'

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