| Contract |
Audi Building, London |
| Award |
Entry |
| Category |
Interior Fit-Outs |
| Website |
www.wallrite.co.uk/ |
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The new Audi Building in Brentford is the biggest of its kind in the world for the German Car manufacturer.
Designed by Wilkinson Eyre this signature building of 19,000m
2 rises to seven storeys and includes three showroom floors capable of displaying up to 116 cars.
The two basement levels have been assigned to provide workshop and parking facilities while the top two floors, designed by Portuguese Architects ATMB13 ARQUITECTOS with striking curved and flat plasterboard expanses punctured by deep curved stairwells and view wells, have become a business and creative complex.
The Exotic Manta Ray fish provided the inspiration for the building's curves and this was carried through internally to the showroom ceilings using a combination of metal trapezoidal linear plank ceilings and rectangular chilled ceilings, which makes use of the natural air flow through the expansive open plan areas to maximum effect.
The building also contains the characteristic WEA signature squiggle in the form of a profiled GRG nose cone to the mezzanine floor.
The workshop areas and offices make use of plasterboard and differing coloured mineral fibre ceilings which contrast against the main showrooms.