AEGON House Lytham HQ

This project encompasses the refurbishment of an existing 1960’s headquarters building in Lytham, with a gross floor area of approximately 12,500m². The brief was to upgrade all facilities throughout to accommodate staff growth and new clients. The common spaces were drastically reconfigured to improve facilities for all including a new restaurant, servery, coffee bar and shop. Ground floor areas were redesigned to provide flexible executive meeting spaces, a variety of staff meeting areas and a new reception.

A simple palette of grey and green was used throughout to link the areas and also the interior of the building with the wooded landscape surrounding it. The distinctive geometric pattern of the balustrade to the main stairs was replicated onto the manifestation to the glass fronted meeting spaces.

Specially commissioned photographs of the area were used as large graphics to the back of the specially designed meeting pods. Quality materials were selected within the limited budget to ensure a contemporary professional atmosphere was created. The design accommodated the projected increase of staff from 650 to1000 in terms of space planning. All works were carried out successfully whilst the building was fully operational due to a well planned decant strategy.

The result is a headquarters building that matches in quality the clients other headquarters around the country but retains its own distinctive identity.