After some 26 years, Waddington Architects have moved from a characterful converted Jersey granite warehouse to a 1970’s cool office. Designed by Taylor Leapingwell husband-and-wife architects, and originally the home of their own studios, it seems fitting to have architects back in the building. We caught up with Director, Mike Waddington, to hear all about it…
We’re on the 6th floor, which means we get spectacular views over the town rooftops, harbours and Fort Regent. We also enjoy incredible, and inspiring, ever-changing daylight and weather. At times it feels quite exposed, perched up here in storms and squalls, as we look out towards the Fort Regent Weather Station!
We have around 14 workstations for our team of 11 architects, technicians, interior and landscape designers, and the open plan studio is brimming with plants and greenery. It’s a collaborative workspace, which suits the creative work we do and allows everyone to tune into design discussions throughout the day, and this really helps us get the best results.
We’ve signed up to a nine year lease, so are here to stay, and couldn’t be happier with our location. We’re still equipped with our own in-house physical model-making facilities, as well as 3d visualisation software, these help us to easily explain our design proposals to clients and decision-makers. De-mystifying architectural design so that everyone can enjoy it is central to our way of working, as is having fun during the process, despite being quite serious about the positive effects that good integrated design can bring to peoples’ lives.
With two roof terraces and a shared garden at second floor level, we’re really looking forward to summer and the odd Friday barbecue and social!
Waddington
6th Floor, 8 Hill Street, St.Helier, JE2 4UA
waddington.je
