casa loewe, bond street

Architect: Loewe

We were commissioned by LOEWE to work with their designers on the extensive structural alterations and fit out to create their new flagship store, CASA LOEWE, on Bond Street.

The store comprises of basement floor, ground floor and a double width 1st floor, extending over the adjacent premise. The structural works included a new piled RC basement slab, and new ground and first profiled metal deck floor slabs on fabricated steel plate girder beams to achieve the required head room.

The majority of the works were carried out to facilitate the installation of a new stone feature staircase rising from the basement to the first floor and set around a cylindrical glass lift shaft. New steel frames provided stability and transferred the vertical loads back to the piled foundations.

We worked in conjunction with The Stonemasonry Company to craft and construct the staircase. Each of the treads were hand carved from Campaspero, a Spanish limestone, before being assembled on site and post-tensioned. This is, in fact, the first post-tensioned, stone torsion staircase in a retail environment!

Photography by Milk and Loewe