offices
Waugh Thistleton Architects, 2023
74 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY
Architect led tours
Old Street
Old Street
The Black & White Building sits on the site of a seasoning shed used for carpentry timber drying in the Victorian era. Acquired by TOG in 2013, the 10,000 square foot space was small and unsustainable.
A statement of sustainable design principals, The Black & White Building is Central London’s tallest mass timber office.
Traditional construction materials including iron, steel and cement contribute around 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The Black & White Building is assembled almost entirely from sustainable mass timber, reducing embodied carbon creation by 37 percent in comparison to a concrete structure of the same size.
Embodied carbon is the CO2 produced during the building’s creation – including the extraction and manufacturing the of raw materials, the construction, and eventually the deconstruction.
Building with timber is one of the most sustainable methods of construction, reducing our use of polluting high-energy materials – a key method in fighting global warming.
Drop in
civic, art in the public realm, community/cultural, entertainment, mixed use, theatre, concert/performance space
Once one of the grandest civic buildings in London and now a great arts venue, the Grade II listed Shoreditch Town Hall boasts many spaces, from the Victorian grandeur of the Assembly Hall to the intimate warren of untouched basement rooms.
Caesar Augustus Long, 1866
