Heritage

The Battleship Building is a multi-tenanted building which was built as a maintenance depot for British Rail in 1969.  It is actually two distinct buildings – an office/workshop (the Battleship) and a vehicle depot (the Rotunda) – connected by the Westway gyratory. 

During the 1990s the building fell into disrepair and played a short but remembered role in 90's rave culture as a Free Party venue.  In 1994 it was awarded Grade II Listed status and in 2000 the building was converted into modern offices by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects. 

They initially reinvented it to become Monsoon/Accessorize’s headquarters, but the company’s subsequent growth led to their relocation a few years later into The Yellow Building.

It's name comes from its shape which, it has been said, looks like it has, "reared like a battleship over the turbulence of the motorway."

The refurbishment cost around £10million and brought the building back to life and gave it new purpose as a bright, contemporary and quirky new working space.

The building provides 3,000m² of primarily open plan office space with the use of chilled beams for air conditioning/heating and lighting fixed to high level exposed concrete soffits.  It has just recently undergone further modernisations including a full lift replacement and major LED conversion programme.

The building won the Royal Fine Arts Commission trust: Building of the Year 2002 award.