The landmark Lucent redevelopment scheme picked up the award for ‘Mixed-use Project (£75 million and over)’ at the Architects Journal Awards 2024.
Located directly behind London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights, Landsec’s major redevelopment and extension known as ‘Lucent’ offers high-quality office, hospitality, retail and residential units at this bustling location.
The scheme was praised by the judges as a ‘technically very impressive’ upgrade and transformation, with the £127 million redevelopment singled out for resolving a decades-long conundrum which lurked behind the instantly recognisable ‘Piccadilly Lights’ seen by 100 million people every year at Piccadilly Circus.
The 13,692 sqm mixed-use complex, featuring 22 terraces and gardens across the building, was praised by the panel for unifying a challenging city block of 13 distinct buildings and achieving an extraordinary balance of ‘contemporary material and forms’, while also remaining highly respectful to the prominent area’s unique historical context. The jury said: “Lucent shows how a city block can be adapted to provide larger floor plates in a really elegant and well-resolved way”.
Our team provided structural engineering consultancy services for the development. This saw our retrofit specialists collaborate with Landsec and Fletcher Priest Architects to help deliver their vision and maximise the existing structure’s potential through a series of targeted design interventions.
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To see the full list of winners, click here. Three of our other projects, The Northcliffe, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland and YY London were also shortlisted at the awards.
Discover more about our award-winning schemes, by visiting our awards webpage here.
