Project Details
Client
Hines
Architect
BFLS
Contractor
Mace Plus
Stone used
Bathstone and Italian Basalt
Value
£600,000
Contract Duration
6 months, completed 30-07-2010
Scope of Work
External cleaning and restoration, new build stone cladding. Internal Basalt flooring and staircase
Number One Grafton Street is a typical Edwardian building with red brick facades incorporating extensive detailed stonework. Situated at the corner of Grafton Street and Hay Hill in London’s Mayfair, this development has transformed the original 120 year old building into grade ‘A’ office space. The newly refurbished building comprises 25,716 sq ft of contemporary, column-free offices spread over six floors, along with 3,100 sq ft residential apartment and 6,480 sq ft of prime retail units.
Mace Plus appointed Putney & Wood to carry out the stonework subcontract package which involved retaining and restoring both the original brick and stone facades. Putney & Wood’s team of stone masons dismantled, cleaned and re-instated much of the original Bathstone on both retained facades and also installed new Bathstone to the upper floors. Although the brick piers remained, Putney & Wood built new structural blockwork and windposts to support and restrain the new Bathstone.
The site work was complicated by great logistical constraints and an adjacent Grade 1 Listed Building and party wall. As Mace Plus pointed out, ”One of the most complex elements of the project is the retained façade, one of which has had the bottom three storeys removed.”
Putney & Wood also carried out the internal stonework package which included the design, procurement and installation of fine-grained, Italian Basalt floor tiles for the main reception, lift lobbies and executive toilets.
Andrew Wilson Project Manager at Mace said ”Putney & Wood carried out new traditional stone carving, modern stone cladding, facade cleaning and restoration and a portico reconstruction on the complex Grafton Street project. All works were completed in a professional manor and to a high standard. Given the opportunity I would work with Putney & Wood in the future”
