The Project
334 Oxford Street, formerly the Debenham’s department store, offers a significant opportunity to create a new mixed use building with enhanced street presence on one of London’s best known shopping streets.
Project Details
AHMM’s scheme for building owners Ramsbury, combines partial retention, extension and alteration. Active shopfronts and food offers will continue to animate Marylebone Lane, Henrietta Place and Vere Street, with offices and flexible space above and amenity space and a roof terrace at ninth floor level. A feature ‘scissor’ staircase will encourage users to walk rather than use lifts and provides opportunity for social interaction within a large building.
Our Role
Veretec have been appointed as part of Ramsbury’s Client Monitoring Team, to oversee the delivery of this ambitious refurb. Much of the building will be retained (about 60% of the concrete substructure and 52% of the steel superstructure) contributing positively to embodied carbon targets. The scheme is targeting BREEAM Outstanding WELL Core ‘ready’, NABERS 5* and WiredScore Platinum.
Energy efficient facades will maximise daylight to the interiors, and the central core will be partially built within the existing atrium for flexibility. High quality exposed steelwork and concrete and timber cladding, reduces the need for applied finishes, further contributing to its sustainability credentials.
The project is due to complete in 2026.
