Location: Windsor Road, Slough

 

Client: XLP Property Ltd

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Status: Completed 2017

 

Size: 9,000 sq m

ESA have completed the comprehensive refurbishment of this 1980's office building in the town centre of Slough for property developers XLB.

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We were instructed in 2014 to prepare design concepts and proposals for upgrading this once tired office building into a new contemporary office development.

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The building occupies a prominent position situated on the corner of Windsor Road and Herschel Street. Windsor Road itself is a mainly commercial street running south from the Slough Town Centre. The street is mixed in terms of bulk, mass, scale and styles of buildings, generally 4-8 stories in height. The immediate area also has medium to low rise residential development peppered with some larger scale buildings of varying architectural quality.

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The project contained an interesting modernist sculpture by Franta Belsky, that celebrates the achievements of the astronomer William Herschel and his telescope/observatory that was historically located on or near this site. This sculpture, unveiled and presented to the town on 5 June 1969, has been retained and incorporated into the completed scheme.

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