Bombay Sapphire Distillery
Bombay Sapphire Distillery The gin maker Bombay Sapphire invited the studio to design the company’s first dedicated distillery and headquarters in the south of England. Originally developed as the mill for the British empire’s bank note paper, over two centuries the site had become a sprawling and chaotic accumulation of more than forty buildings. The River Test, one of England’s finest chalk streams, flows through the site but had been narrowed and partially hidden within a steep-sided concrete channel. The studio’s first impulse was to reveal the River Test once more and use it as an organising device to bring clarity back to the site. Removing twenty of the most recent structures, the team undertook the painstaking restoration of the twenty-three remaining historic buildings and created a new central courtyard with the widened river running through the middle of it.
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