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Salisbury, United Kingdom

Bourne Hill Offices

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Stanton Williams were commissioned to design new offices for Wiltshire Council on a sensitive historic site at Bourne Hill, Salisbury.

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The new Council building is a marriage of a new building and the restored Grade II* listed Bourne Hill House. The new building has 2600m2 of flexible, open plan offices that enjoy generous views of the surrounding gardens. Externally, it is given presence and scale by a full-height colonnade set in front of its glazed elevations and there is thus a strong relationship between the architecture and the external landscape. The design incorporates an integral low-energy strategy in order to achieve an ‘excellent’ BREEAM rating.

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Bourne Hill House has been fully restored. It had been subjected to a series of detrimental external additions and these accretions have been swept away, reinforcing the architectural integrity of the house.

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On a sensitive site and within a historic city, the final design was arrived at following an extensive process of consultation with the local community and with expert bodies including English Heritage.

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Ian Latham in Architecture Today magazine remarked that: “Wiltshire’s council offices set a high benchmark for civic building in the twenty-first century.”

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The project completed in 2010 at a cost of £15.8 million.

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