Riverside House

This Grade A office development, part of the New Bailey development, provides 11,000 m² of commercial space. The existing façade was retained, and the building has been remodeled and extended with a new floor, balcony, and rooftop terrace incorporated into the structure. Muse Developments took over the top two floors of the building and their completed space provides open-plan office accommodation, meeting rooms, phone booths, a staff lounge and a client reception area.

Cundall was appointed at outline design stage and were retained by Muse throughout the design and construction stages. A significant challenge posed by the Cat A design related to the displacement ventilation and chilled beam cooling strategy. As this system provides lower noise levels than a four-pipe fan coil or variable refrigerant flow system, Cundall designed a bespoke sound masking system in order to maintain high levels of acoustic privacy. Bespoke reverberation control solutions were also delivered in line with the architectural vision.

Rob Turner, Partner, commented; "A key challenge on this project was to design reverberation control treatments which did not compromise Muse’s aesthetic vision. Therefore, we worked closely with the interior designer to select a combination of bespoke and functional materials which led to very high levels of speech intelligibility in video-conference rooms."