# 19 Queen Elizabeth Street. SFS, cladding and VitraDual rainscreen. Bermondsey, London SE1. > SFS, cladding and copings for Hollybrook at 19 Queen Elizabeth Street, Bermondsey, in 2016, then SFS and VitraDual rainscreen on its 2023 penthouse. > HTML version: https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/ Two separate facade packages for Hollybrook on one Butler’s Wharf warehouse, seven years apart, by the team behind Dmitro Development. ![White cladding framing recessed balconies and the entrance soffit of the dark-brick side extension at 19 Queen Elizabeth Street, beside the retained red-brick warehouse, Bermondsey](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-white-cladding-framing-recessed-balconies-entrance-fallback.jpg) 01 · The 2016 side extension on Queen Elizabeth Street, framed in white cladding. Warehouse conversion and penthouse The side extension added to 19 Queen Elizabeth Street in 2016: dark-grey brick, deep white-clad balcony recesses and a white soffit over the office entrance, beside the red-brick warehouse of 1903 to 1904. The team behind Dmitro Development built the SFS, cladding and copings for this extension for Hollybrook. ## At a glance - **Client and main contractor**: Hollybrook - **Location**: Bermondsey · London SE1 - **2016 package**: SFS, cladding and copings - **2022 to 2023 package**: SFS and VitraDual rainscreen A steel-framed brick warehouse of 1903 to 1904 on the corner of Queen Elizabeth Street and Lafone Street, a short walk from Tower Bridge. Hollybrook turned it into its own headquarters, offices and ten apartments, adding a side extension in 2016 and a two-storey penthouse in 2023. [Part of: Cladding and facade packages](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/facade-cladding/) ## 02 · 2016: white cladding folded around the recessed balconies. Built over 12 weeks on the new side extension. ![Two white-clad balcony recesses set into the dark-grey brick of the side extension, with the glazed link to the warehouse on the right](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-white-clad-balcony-recesses-set-dark-fallback.jpg) The two balcony recesses on the 2016 side extension. White metal panels line the reveals, soffits and sills of each opening, set into dark-grey extra-long bricks, with the glazed link to the retained warehouse on the right. ## 03 · The extension by day, entrance stair beneath the white soffit. ![Street elevation of the dark-brick side extension with two white-clad balcony recesses and the entrance stair below](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-elevation-dark-brick-side-extension-white-fallback.jpg) The full street elevation of the 2016 side extension: two white-clad balcony recesses in dark-grey brick, the white entrance soffit and clad columns over the stair, and the glazed link rising beside the warehouse. ## 04 · The extension at night, entrance soffit lit. ![The side extension and warehouse at night, with the white entrance soffit lit above the gated stair](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-side-extension-warehouse-night-white-entrance-fallback.jpg) The side extension and the retained warehouse at night from Queen Elizabeth Street. Linear lights in the white entrance soffit light the gated stair and the numbered entrance screen. ## The side extension in detail White metal panels wrap the columns and run across the entrance soffit, with linear lights in the panel joints, and line the window reveals in the dark brick. ![The red-brick warehouse elevation with the white-clad corner of the dark-brick extension at its left edge](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-red-brick-warehouse-elevation-white-clad-fallback.jpg) 05 · Where the white-clad extension meets the retained warehouse. The retained warehouse of 1903 to 1904, red brick with stone bands and dark window frames, meeting the white-clad corner of the 2016 extension on the left. ![Looking up at white soffit panels and a clad column beside dark curtain walling at the office entrance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-white-soffit-panels-clad-column-dark-fallback.jpg) 06 · Soffit panels running from a clad column to the curtain wall. The entrance soffit from below: white metal panels meet a clad column and run back to the dark curtain wall of the office entrance, with the dark brick of the extension above. ![White soffit panels with linear light strips set into the joints, above the office entrance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-white-soffit-panels-linear-light-strips-fallback.jpg) 07 · Linear lights set between the soffit panels. Linear lights run in the joints between the white soffit panels over the office entrance, with a clad column at the far end and the street beyond. ![Low view of the white entrance soffit and its folded leading edge against a blue sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-low-white-entrance-soffit-folded-fallback.jpg) 08 · The soffit’s leading edge against the sky. A low view of the entrance soffit’s leading edge, with the folded white panels of the column and the dark brick of the extension above. ![Looking up a white clad column into the soffit, with dark brick above and the red-brick warehouse to the right](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-white-clad-column-soffit-dark-brick-fallback.jpg) 09 · A clad column rising into the soffit beside the warehouse. A white clad column rising into the entrance soffit, where the panels return around the corner of the extension. The dark brick and white window reveals are above; the retained warehouse is on the right. ![Stacked balconies with frosted glass balustrades and dark soffits between white walls and dark brick](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-stacked-balconies-frosted-glass-balustrades-dark-fallback.jpg) 10 · Courtyard balconies with dark soffits and glass balustrades. Stacked balconies on the courtyard side of the extension, with dark soffits, frosted glass balustrades and white panelled walls beside the dark-grey brick. ![Looking up the dark-grey brick flank of the extension, with deep white window reveals and the glazed link to the left](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-dark-grey-brick-flank-extension-deep-fallback.jpg) 11 · Looking up the brick flank past the glazed link. The brick flank of the extension from below, with deep white reveals to each window and the glazed link running up the left-hand side. ## Behind the facade: Hollybrook’s offices The lower floors became Hollybrook’s own offices and reception, under grey-cased beams and rooflights, with the warehouse’s riveted steel left on show. ![A man at a glass balustrade on the bridge leading to the Hollybrook reception desk](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-man-glass-balustrade-bridge-leading-hollybrook-fallback.jpg) 12 · The bridge to Hollybrook’s reception. The bridge across the lower floor to reception, with the Hollybrook name on the wall and riveted steel overhead. The completed building is Hollybrook’s headquarters. ![A dark steel stair with glass balustrades rising beneath rooflights, beside a red steel beam](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-dark-steel-stair-glass-balustrades-rising-fallback.jpg) 13 · The central stair and its glass balustrades. The central stair in the office, dark steel with glass balustrades, rising beneath the rooflights beside a red-painted steel beam. ![An office kitchen beside the bridge, with a red riveted steel beam overhead and reception beyond](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-office-kitchen-bridge-red-riveted-steel-fallback.jpg) 14 · The office floor opening onto the bridge. The office floor opening onto the bridge, with a red riveted steel beam overhead and the timber-panelled reception beyond. ![Long view of the reception with a white desk, black sofas and grey-cased beams overhead](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-long-reception-white-desk-black-sofas-fallback.jpg) 15 · The reception floor and its long white desk. The reception floor, with its white desk, seating and the grey-cased beams running overhead to the street windows. ![Black leather sofas beside the reception desk, under grey beams and next to a glass balustrade](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-black-leather-sofas-reception-desk-grey-fallback.jpg) 16 · The waiting area beside reception. The waiting area beside the reception desk, under grey-cased beams, with the glass balustrade to the lower floor on the right. ![Grey-cased ceiling beams in the ground-floor office, stepping towards the glazed entrance doors](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-grey-cased-ceiling-beams-ground-floor-fallback.jpg) 17 · The office ceiling stepping towards the glazed entrance. A run of grey-cased beams across the ground-floor office ceiling, leading towards the glazed entrance doors. ![A line of grey-cased beams under a white ceiling, with the glazed office frontage at the far end](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-line-grey-cased-beams-white-ceiling-fallback.jpg) 18 · Looking along the office to its glazed frontage. The grey-cased beams in line under the white ceiling, looking along the office towards its glazed frontage. ![Angled grey reveals lining a row of rooflights in the office ceiling](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-angled-grey-reveals-lining-row-rooflights-fallback.jpg) 19 · Angled grey reveals under the office rooflights. Rooflights in the office ceiling, each lined with angled grey reveals that bring daylight down into the floor below. ![A row of rooflights with grey reveals above suspended linear office lights](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-row-rooflights-grey-reveals-suspended-linear-fallback.jpg) 20 · The same reveals above the suspended office lighting. The same row of rooflights seen from further back, above the suspended linear lighting of the office floor. ## 21 · 2022 to 2023: the penthouse above the 2016 extension. The team returned to clad a new two-storey penthouse on the roof. ![The white-framed dark-brick extension in the foreground with the Corten-coloured penthouse on the warehouse roof above](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-white-framed-dark-brick-extension-foreground-fallback.jpg) Both packages in one view, October 2023: the white-clad, dark-brick side extension of 2016 in the foreground, and the Corten-coloured VitraDual penthouse of 2022 to 2023 on the warehouse roof above. ## The penthouse package - 100 mm SFS at 600 mm centres, into the parapets and upstands - Rockwool insulation, membranes and Siniat Weather Defence sheathing - 3 mm Valcan VitraDual aluminium rainscreen in Corten 2 - Aluminium copings and the balcony soffit ![The Corten-coloured aluminium frame of the penthouse on the corner of the red-brick warehouse against a blue sky](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-corten-coloured-aluminium-frame-penthouse-corner-fallback.jpg) 22 · The penthouse’s Corten-finish frame on the warehouse corner. The penthouse on the corner of the warehouse: Valcan VitraDual aluminium in Corten 2 frames the glazing and wraps the parapets above the red-brick elevations. The rainscreen ## Class A1 under BS EN 13501-1. VitraDual is a PVDF-coated solid aluminium panel. The Corten 2 finish gives the colour of weathered steel on a lightweight panel. The team surveyed the roof, developed the design and detailed the SFS around the rooflights and the curtain walling on three sides, then carried out fixing pull-out and CWCT spray-bar testing. ## The penthouse in drawing and on the street The new structure replaced a single-storey roof level and sits back from the warehouse parapets, so the brick still reads first. Glazing and louvres fill the bays between its aluminium piers. ![The penthouse lit from within at dusk, its Corten-coloured frame above the red-brick warehouse corner](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-penthouse-lit-dusk-corten-coloured-frame-fallback.jpg) 23 · The penthouse lit at dusk on the warehouse corner. The penthouse at dusk, lit from within, its Corten-finish frame and soffits above the warehouse corner. ![Elevation drawing of the warehouse with the side extension on the left and the two-storey penthouse highlighted on the roof](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-elevation-drawing-warehouse-side-extension-fallback.jpg) 24 · Elevation drawing: the 2016 extension on the left, the penthouse on the roof. An elevation drawing of the building with the two-storey penthouse highlighted on the warehouse roof. The 2016 side extension, with its two balcony recesses, is on the left. ![Elevation drawing of the warehouse’s other street face with the penthouse highlighted on the roof](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-elevation-drawing-warehouse-face-penthouse-highlighted-fallback.jpg) 25 · Elevation drawing: the penthouse on the warehouse’s other street face. An elevation drawing of the warehouse’s other street face, with the two-storey penthouse highlighted, set back from the parapet. ![The Corten-coloured penthouse frame set back above the red-brick warehouse elevation](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-corten-coloured-penthouse-frame-set-back-fallback.jpg) 26 · The penthouse frame over the warehouse parapet. The penthouse set back behind the warehouse parapet, its Corten-finish VitraDual piers and copings above the original brick elevation. ![The warehouse’s red-brick corner with the penthouse and its roof terrace railings above](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-warehouse-red-brick-corner-penthouse-roof-fallback.jpg) 27 · The penthouse above the brick flank. The warehouse corner from street level, with the penthouse and its upper roof-terrace railings above the brick flank. ![Close view of Corten-coloured aluminium panels framing tall windows with louvres above](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-corten-coloured-aluminium-panels-framing-tall-fallback.jpg) 28 · VitraDual panels framing the glazing and louvres. Close view of the VitraDual panels, Corten 2 finish, framing the curtain-wall glazing and the ventilation louvres above it. ![A tiled roof terrace beside Corten-coloured cladding piers and glazed doors](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-tiled-roof-terrace-corten-coloured-cladding-fallback.jpg) 29 · A roof terrace between the penthouse piers. A roof terrace along the penthouse, between its Corten-finish piers and glazed doors, with the upper terrace railings above. ![The red-brick warehouse on its street corner at dusk, with the lit penthouse on the roof and car light trails below](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-red-brick-warehouse-corner-dusk-lit-fallback.jpg) 30 · The whole warehouse on its corner, lights on. The whole warehouse on its corner at dusk, with the penthouse lit on the roof and the side extension just visible on the left. ![At night, the white-framed dark-brick extension below and the lit Corten-coloured penthouse above](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-night-white-framed-dark-brick-extension-fallback.jpg) 31 · The extension’s white frame and the lit penthouse after dark. After dark: the white-clad frame of the 2016 extension below and the lit penthouse of 2023 above, both clad by the same team. ## Inside the penthouses Two duplex penthouses, with open-plan living floors and terraces towards Tower Bridge and the City. ![A penthouse kitchen with herringbone floor opening through sliding glass doors onto a terrace](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-penthouse-kitchen-herringbone-floor-opening-sliding-fallback.jpg) 32 · A kitchen opening onto its terrace through sliding glazing. A penthouse kitchen and living floor opening onto its terrace through full-height sliding glazing, with louvres above. ![A penthouse terrace at dusk under a Corten-coloured soffit, with the Shard lit in the distance](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-penthouse-terrace-dusk-corten-coloured-soffit-fallback.jpg) 33 · A terrace at dusk, looking to the Shard. A penthouse terrace at dusk, under the Corten-finish soffit and beside the louvred glazing, looking west to the Shard. ![An open-plan penthouse living space with herringbone floor, red steel columns and full-height glazing](https://dmitrodevelopment.co.uk/assets/projects/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey/19-queen-elizabeth-street-bermondsey-open-plan-penthouse-living-space-herringbone-fallback.jpg) 34 · Open-plan living space between red steel columns. Open-plan living space in one of the two duplex penthouses, with red steel columns and full-height glazing to the terraces. ## One warehouse, clad twice for Hollybrook. 19 Queen Elizabeth Street, London SE1 2LP - **Architect**: Burwell Architects - **Rainscreen supplier**: Valcan - **Warehouse built**: 1903 to 1904 - **Penthouse completed**: March 2023 - **Scheme award, Brick Awards 2017**: Shortlisted - **Scheme award, Premier Guarantee**: Office Development of the Year - **Scheme award, Refurbishment/Conversion**: Highly Commended ## Related projects - [Blue Lion Place. Siberian larch cladding. 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