The Met Building is a mixed-use retail and office space building located on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Percy Street in central London. The scheme involved the refurbishment of the building with the creation of four new roof top amenity spaces. A new first floor podium terrace was created over the service yard to help screen views of the service yard from the upper levels of the building and to create additional outdoor amenity space for office users.
The design concept for the scheme sees the terraces as one space wrapping around the building – albeit separated across multiple levels. The terraces share qualities found in the local London Garden Squares; rectilinear spaces enclosed by buildings, pockets of green within urban fabric offering green and natural materials, a place of retreat and calm arising from the textural qualities of trees, planting and sense of contact with nature.
