What does the F&M Food & Drink Studio have in common with an Arts & Community Centre in Fulham and the offices of a pharmaceutical giant?
In 2021, I, with Tanya McMullen, Simon Thompson and Crispin Butler started thinking about the 3rd floor at F&M.
Tanya and I had pulled together a F&M macro trends report which included emerging circular design approaches within architecture, including designing spaces to be flexible and adaptable for future scenarios.
This became a principal of the Food & Drink Studio - sometimes a cookery school, an events space or commercial kitchen, often something else. Very likely something different again in the future.
Design in department and large stores is often fixed and one thing thing that serves a single purpose.
Flexibility helped with the business case, but it was also the right thing to do - reducing the liklihood of a space that was not longer useful and therefore needed to be changed (with all of the embedded carbon, waste of materials that come with ripping something out and starting again).
And the community center? It's the brilliant Sands End Arts and Community Centre by MAE ARCHITECTS LIMITED. And the office? Roche by Christ & Gantenbein.
Happy birthday, Fortnum’s Food & Drink Studio! 🎈🎉
We can hardly believe it’s been one whole year since the opening on our 3rd Floor at 181 Piccadilly. In that time we’ve enjoyed supper clubs with world-famous chefs, hosted thought-provoking panel talks with industry experts and explored new cuisines with international cookbook authors, to list but a few.
We can’t wait to see what delicious things the year ahead has in store! 🎈🎉
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Natura Frost welcome ! 🤗