Number One Riverside, Rochdale, United Kingdom. Architect: FaulknerBrowns, 2014. Ground floor glazing with reflection of context

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This 17,000m² building overlooking the opened-up River Roch houses council office space, a public library and a ‘customer-facing’ service centre. The first goal was to bring Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council’s 1,700 employees, formerly scattered across 33 different buildings, under a single roof at Number One Riverside. The second aim was to bring the authority closer to the people it served. A third aim was to promote flexible working: taking workers out of the office and instituting a hot-desking system would create even more savings on space. A further goal for Number One Riverside was to create a building with a ‘timeless’ quality that could attract civic pride.

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