After 16 years in King’s Cross, London based architects Squire and Partners moved their 220 staff to a new home in Brixton in summer 2017. Having purchased a dilapidated Edwardian department store two years previously, the practice entirely reimagined the space allowing the existing fabric and layers of history to inform the new design. Collaborating with craftspeople and furniture makers, the restored and extended building provides an exciting array of work and event spaces for the various design disciplines within the practice, and a series of further creative and retail units including a roastery for Volcano Coffee, a café for Kaboola Kitchen, a record shop for Brixton based Pure Vinyl, a community Post Office and Canova Hall, an independent restaurant and bar.