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Royal Exchange

The refurbishment of office spaces and an entrance hall within this Grade 1 listed historic landmark. A series of panelled rooms are carefully restored and sympathetically decorated to meet the needs of a modern office environment.

Lift lobbies and bathrooms have been transformed into light, clean and easily maintainable public areas of the building.

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James Gorst’s work has helped to heal one of the most unnecessary and painful wounds in contemporary British architecture: between the traditionalists and the modernists. Like Louis Kahn in the United States or Peter Zumthor in Switzerland, Gorst reminds us that modernism can be beautifully reconciled with the underlying principles of classicism and that modern materials and idioms can carry all the elegance, dignity and grandeur associated with historical masterpieces.

Alain de Botton

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