The remarkable textured facade of Clerkenwell’s Turnmill building was created using 85,890 handmade Danish bricks that took 27 different forms. This was not for the faint hearted, as Stephen Cousins discovered.
Standing inside the plush atrium of the 70,500 sq ft Turnmill office and retail building in Clerkenwell, there’s a sudden sense of disorientation as I realise that I stood on the very same spot 15 years ago, when queuing to enter the (in)famous Turnmills nightclub.
In those days, the club occupied the cavernous basement of a warehouse that was constructed in 1886 for the Great Northern Railway Company. Now, that solid, unadorned structure has been knocked down and carted away, and in its place is a bright and airy six-storey retail and office block, with pristine white plaster walls, polished screed floors and shiny brass lifts and light fittings.
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