Ice Factory

Victoria

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland

2023

We breathed new life into a former industrial building to create workspace, retail space and two new restaurants over five floors. The scheme serves as the next chapter in the redevelopment of a former industrial site into Eccleston Yards, the first phase of which we completed in 2018 and now provides an open public space surrounded by workspace, studios, and retail units tailored to independent businesses, entrepreneurs and creative talent.

Our key moves involved removing the pitched roof of the building and inserting a new structure within the retained fabric to extend the building upwards, whilst adding two new floors with a step down in height towards the terraced houses on Ebury Street. The new saw-tooth roofline with ribbon lights maximises natural light and takes reference from the industrial history of the site.

We demonstrated how an existing building that had been designed for industrial use and had only existed as a large, shed-like commercial space could be reimagined into a mixed-use scheme. A new restaurant has been created on the fourth-floor, with full-height glazing, and two terraces that offer external dining space looking out over surrounding rooftops and the open space of Eccleston Yards.

Photography Dirk Lindner, Tom Niven

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