Iceni are a rapidly growing planning consultancy with offices in London, Glasgow and Manchester.

Our approach to the design of their new London office, (the conversion of an old subterranean car park in Clerkenwell) was to maximise use of the available space while maintaining an airy, open and free flowing working environment.

White linear bench workstations surround a bright central social hub with a well lit, open bar / kitchen at the end and a pair of long refectory tables running down the centre. This is the social hub of the office and is very much the focal point of any communal work related or social activity.

Iceni have adopted a flexible hot desk system for this office and promote paperless working. The left hand wall has banks of tiered white pigeon holes containing the 'Hot Boxes'. These boxes are where staff hold there belongings and equipment. They are collected when they arrive and taken to their allocated workstation position, to be returned at the end of the working day. This very efficient regime allows Iceni to maximise the use of space at all times.

The Offices and meeting rooms are glazed with tiered feature seating making use of the existing sloping walls of the old car park. The dividing walls are finished in a bright 'write on' finish and house the AV and conferencing equipment. There are also enclosed soft meeting pods and seating through out the space.

One of the challenges of the scheme was a smooth transition from ground level to the basement space, we have achieved this with bold, simple signage, feature lighting and by removing or disguising any impeding doorways.

Finishes throughout reflect the existing site; concrete, brick and steel sit against exposed, well detailed new services and lighting with a galvanized floor to the central social area and pale grey carpet to the surrounding work space.

We have introduced character and a sense of place with references to Saffron Hill as the site of Fagin's Lair in Dicken's Oliver Twist and a sculptural mural showing Da Vinci House's progression from the old print works of Punch Magazine to its last incarnation as a car park.

The top floor of 140 Leadenhall Street EC3 overlooking Lloyd's is now a luxury lounge and play room for Paragon International the Lloyd's insurance brokers. A space to entertain clients and for staff to work and also unwind.

The building completed in 1931 was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens a famous classical architect of the time. The theme of the space is in a loose 30's style with reference to the young generation 'Modernist' artists and designers of the period, Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Periand and Picasso through the furniture, wall art, books and ephemera.

The floor includes four ‘zoom rooms’ these are playful time capsules one evoking the 1930's when the building was built, another the 1980's when the current Lloyd's building opened and another the 1970's when Liliana Achibald became the first female Lloyd's broker. These rooms are acoustically separated, have studio lighting and an inbuilt video conferencing system.

There is a large and a small board room both with generous circular tables and 'in build' video conferencing systems, the rooms are modern, high tech with a subtle 30's style. There is also another small meeting room and the chairman’s office.

The main space is open plan, lined with books and Modernist art with an exposed concrete ceiling, exposed cast iron columns and reclaimed Holophane light fittings. The room has a Versailles style oak floor covered with bespoke rugs and is fitted out with a 30's style bar, a big screen TV, a Pool table, shuffleboard table with one of the zoom rooms turning into a darts room.

This is a theatrical space exploiting the history of the site exposing the structure of the building and referencing the art and thinking of the late 1920's. As business's work to get employees back into the office this may be a glimpse of the future and how, going forward how prime office space is going to be used.

PMA were appointed to design and manage the fit out of the ‘American Brands’ Paris showrooms for CWF in the 4,000sq.ft lower ground floor of a converted 18th century bank on Rue de Courcelles.

Children’s Worldwide Fashion are designers and manufacturers of high end children's fashion brands and distribute throughout the world for many of the major fashion and sportswear houses.

The space is accessed from the ground floor via a concrete spiral staircase with a bold stars and stripes mosaic on its curved wall, delivering visitors to a light and airy gallery space where using using bold artwork, floating light rafts and full height sliding partitions we have produced a flexible and dramatic backdrop to showcase the CWF 'American Brands’ presenting their collections for Nike, Timberland and DKNY.

PMA also fitted out the 5000sq.ft London showrooms for CWF in Notting Hill Gate, another successful project for this international manufacturer.

Paragon are a young and growing boutique Lloyd's brokerage specialising in risk cover for large international architects, law firms and major online retailers. Their approach to business is personal, focused and built on developing an understanding of their clients businesses and tailoring their offer to suit.

Our 97 workstation, 1000 sq.m. fit-out is over the first and second floors of this well known 1930's Lutyens building

The Second Floor

Contains boardrooms, CEO and Chairman's offices, plus workstations for marketing and admin, with meeting rooms along the window wall overlooking the open atrium of the 'Cheesegrater' 122 Leadenhall Street.

The boardrooms and reception are finished with polished white terrazzo floors, bleached oak and ply wall panels, cream leather fitted seating with padded natural canvas wall panels to the boardrooms.

The reception logo is back painted glass, the overall palette and detailing of these spaces evokes the feeling of a luxury yacht, a reference to the nautical history of Lloyd's of London, the insurance platform where Paragon operate.

The meeting rooms throughout are simple, full height glazed enclosures with a striking gloss finish 'write on' wall and contrasting leather furniture in brand colours. Workstations are sleek and white allowing the colourful meeting enclosures to be focal features of the open plan space.

The First Floor

MD's office and an open plan workstation area for the brokers, all finished in the style of the second floor. The front section of the floor and the footprint of the original 1930's building is where we have created the 'Paragon Clubroom' - an eclectic social space for the staff and where clients can be entertained.

In contrast to the polished and contemporary first floor, we have hinted at a world 80 years ago when the building first opened. 1930's furniture and bespoke Art Deco rugs laid on oak parquet flooring, replicating the original under the raised access floor. This is a truely relaxed and intriguing breakout space. A meeting table that doubles as a table tennis table and a library with over 2,500 vintage books, including first editions and dressed with every day period items. The library is complete with velvet wingback chairs and Eileen Gray tables to enhance this immersive experience. 

The main feature of this space is a long bar that runs the length of the front elevation with self service refreshments at one end and a meeting table at the other all detailed and dress to match the 1930's theme.

We stripped back the building to reveal the original structure of the Lutyens building, exposing the riveted red oxide iron columns. The ceiling was taken back to the structural soffit, exposing the services with 'Paragon Logo' circular lighting rafts as well as a sculptured meeting room wall defining the space and further strengthening brand continuity throughout the scheme.

The project handed over in June’17 has proved a great success with these contrasting spaces providing an innovative marketing platform and a stimulating environment for Paragon staff to work, rest and play.

Pioneer are insurance underwriters for Lloyd's and non-Lloyd's carriers and are part of Minova Insurance Holdings Ltd.

In conjunction with their branding consultants Free Partners, PMA created a new and innovative  reception and broker meeting area for their Bishopsgate offices.

Referencing the original Edward Lloyd's coffee house of the 1600's where the famous insurance market began. Our design with its long elegant bar serving coffee and fresh pastries in a relaxed cafe environment of 1950's sofas, Persian rugs and reclaimed vintage creates a striking, contemporary setting for this new, progressive underwriting business.

An open plan, shared studio style workspace developed as part of the Hideaway Jazz Club and Cafe complex in South London. Access from the street is via a glazed lobby and landing platform leading to the space located under the cafe.

The 7,000sq.ft shared office has open plan workstations, office suites, shared meeting rooms, kitchens and breakout areas

Finishes are fresh and vibrant with white work stations sitting on exposed galvanized flooring with exposed galvanized services and lighting surrounded by fully glazed meeting rooms and offices to the sides.

There is a feature breakout area divided by decoupage finished bookshelves dressed with classic Penguin books and furnished with cream sofas, display coffee tables and Persian rugs. As a back drop to the breakout area is a full height ‘write on’ wall.

As part of the Lambie Nairn team rebranding the BBC, Paul Mullins Associates were appointed to design and implement all on screen news and presentation sets for the new BBC News brand.

Paul Mullins received a D&AD nomination for this project.

Kind words;

As part of the BBC News rebranding team Paul Mullins Associates were responsible for the design and implementation of all on screen environments.
Their solid understanding of the brand, grasp of the technical requirements of a television studio and their flair for producing innovative but realistic presentation environments for news presenters, helped establish the continuing success of the visual brand of the BBC, one of the world's leading news providers.
On top of that they were good people to work with.

Mike Kavanagh
Head of Presentation BBC Television News

London Transport Museum Depot at Acton Town contains one of the most comprehensive and important collections of urban transport anywhere in the world with over 370,000 thousand items ranging from tube trains and buses to uniforms, signage, engineering drawings and the famous LT poster collections.

The Depot is a vast working museum, storage and restoration complex with live connections to the District and Piccadilly lines at Acton Town. The complex is open to the public at regular intervals throughout the year and Paul Mullins Associates were called in to design the retail facilities, entrance halls and way finding signage.

Kind Words;

"Paul Mullins Associates was called up at short notice to design the entrance facilities at the Museum Depot, Acton, in response to the Heritage Lottery Fund requesting a better 'sense of arrival' than the architect's proposals. PMA worked sympathetically with the transport and brand heritage to design a ticket office in the style of Charles Holden, a red roundel feature over the porch,  reception area and retail shop, all of which has performed very effectively. We were pleased with the speed with which PMA came to terms with the brief and the finished result which does indeed lend a sense of arrival to this landmark museum facility for all our users and staff."

Sam Mullins,
Sam Mullins Director, London Transport Museum

We have completed the first concept stage for a refurbishment of the Underwriting Room at Lloyd’s. This is a £20m project to upgrade the ground, first and second floors of the 1986 Rogers Building in Lime Street. Known as the Room this is the trading floor of Lloyd’s and the hub of the Lloyd’s insurance marketplace.

Our work includes a new design for the ‘Box’ the traditional enclosed workstation that underwriting syndicates trade from, an evolution of the original seating booths from the Lloyd’s Coffee house of the 1700’s. We are also putting a gallery coffee shop into the Room.

Designed for for Lloyd's underwriters Pioneer, this extension to their 5th floor broker lounge at 7 Bishopsgate is an engaging and theatrical space inspired by the gentleman's clubs of the 1930's. A light hearted pastiche of an imaginary Pioneer / Adventurer's retreat.

There are latin inscriptions, an antique billiard table, a raft of Art Nouveau  crystal light fittings, monogrammed rugs, period sporting and exploring artefacts and a life size mural of past and contemporary pioneering heroes embedded in a Dickensian trading floor scene.

The space also incorporates an informal refectory area for staff and visitors with and open kitchen and long communal table flanked by glazed meeting rooms.

All this is providing a popular and successful back drop  and setting for brokers and underwriters to meet and do business.

Hideaway Jazz Club a glamourous new 6,000 sq.ft restaurant / jazz venue in South London.
The project is the brainchild of businesswoman and jazz fan Frances Strachan who commissioned Paul Mullins Associates as designers to convert an old snooker hall into this venue with a tight budget and fast track programme. Branding by Indelible

A new concept originally developed by us over 30 years ago for a Swedish entrepreneur that’s still going from strength to strength.

Now trading as a worldwide franchising operation PMA are still actively working with the current UAE owners to constantly evolve and develop the brand to meet the demands and challenges of new markets.

Sweet Factory is currently the world’s largest independent pick’n’mix confectionery franchise and we are responsible for producing and leading the brand development, packaging concepts and shop / kiosk design concepts.

Sweet Factory is a fun, themed retail environment telling the story of a band of robots "tin men' and their young helpers who scour the universe looking for candy and sweets to bring back to earth.

Kind words:

PMA's understanding of FMCG and the power of a simple but rigorously delivered concept has allowed our brand to become one of the world's leading pick'n'mix sweet franchises.
Lisa Rosen CEO The Sweet Factory

As part of the Hideaway Jazz complex we have designed a daytime cafe and music venue with live performances on Sundays.

A vibrant space situated above the Hideaway Jazz Club with an open frontage onto the high street. The fascia is a giant cinema style billboard promoting the club’s line up for the night.

The relaxed interior has a central long refectory table with a bar at the end surrounded by wall murals, comfortable sofas, music themed decoupage coffee tables, informal seating and a piano in the corner, all under a dramatic keyhole ceiling raft.

Prior to the launch of the O2 brand Paul Mullins Associates were appointed to develop sketch concepts for the new shop design.

These are some of the initial brand guide sketches that were used in briefing the designers for the first shops.

Pioneer New York

As part of their expanding business we have designed and managed the fitout of a 6,000 sq.ft. office and broker lounge for them on the 17th floor, 48 Wall Street, a landmark building in the heart of the New York financial district.

48 Wall Street, the 32 storey Bank of New York Building was completed in 1929 and is on the corner of Wall St. and William. Our fit out continues the Pioneer style and brand which has been so successful in their London offices but references this new location exposing the original structure where possible plus using period Corbusier furniture elements 1920's theatre lighting and polished concrete floors to embed the new offices within this historic building.

Pioneer Zurich

The latest addition to their branded portfolio is a satellite office in Genferstrasse 6 Zurich, a small office for the Swiss underwriting team and a Pioneer themed broker meeting area. 

A new premium brand Jewellery and watch Gallery concept for implementation in flagship Argos stores through out the UK

Advent Underwriting is a specialty insurance underwriting group with expertise in property, marine, terror, energy and accident / healthcare. LLoyd's underwriters. Advent specialise in reinsurance cover to other insurance companies and are part of Fairfax Financial Holdings.

PMA designed and managed the construction of their 6,000sq.ft London headquarters.

Scottish Widows Investment Partnership is an asset management company based in Edinburgh and is one of the largest asset management companies in Europe.

As part of a rebranding of the business we were engaged to design and manage the installation of a new ground floor reception in their Edinburgh One Building plus design a new penthouse floor to house their fine dining and presentation suites.

A new 7,000sq.ft fit out for the London offices of RiverStone the LLoyd's run off syndicate. The European HQ of the US based insurance group specialising in the management of legacy and run-off insurance businesses and portfolios.

RiverStone is the industry leader in claim resolution, reinsurance recovery and dispute resolution.

A new reception for the London HQ of Jardine Lloyd Thompson at 6 Crutched Friars, London EC3.

JLT are worldwide insurance brokers and risk management specialists.

3,000sq.ft presentation room for the FT Building 1 Southwark Bridge Road.
Utilising a concealed sliding / folding wall system the room can be transformed into 4no. fine dining rooms.

The design also included a seamless plasma screen news feed wall and feature columns finishes in FT pink.

5,000sq.ft oriental restaurant with stylish ground floor dim sum bar and gallery restaurant above. In College Green, Bristol.

Feature gondola designs for Bombay Sapphire.

These units are for installation in high value sites through out the Far East. These  examples are in Sydney Airport.

An exciting new Cuban restaurant / bar in Crystal Palace, South London.

A colourful and eclectic mix of Cuban art, reclaimed furniture, coffee sack seating, salvaged light fittings and artefacts imported from Cuba.

Branding and graphics by Indelible Creative.

A feasibility study for a new 35,000sq.ft store in Dubai for Hamley's the famous Regent Street toy store.

Coffee shop and snack bar for UK shopping centres.

This one is in the Oracle Centre, Reading.

New branding and store design for the well known UK hardware and ironmonger retailer.

We designed and managed the production and installation of this exhibition stand for the launch of Imaqliq a nwe Russian mobile telephone network.

Branding by Heavenly.

Mining for candy, an exciting Pick'n'Mix sweet concept for UCI Cinemas. This one is in their foyer in Bluewater.

Other Pick'n'Mix Sweet concepts developed include Prof. Humbug's Candy Store, Sweetworks and Cpt.Bubbles and his Sweets from the Deep all for Granada Services.

New identity and shop format for the chain of UK newsagents and convenience stores.

In a 5,000sq.ft. site in London’s Chelsea harbour PMA have designed and fitted out the UK headquarters and training centre for Schwartzkopf the international hair product company.

The interior has a nautical theme with brass portholes, cast aluminium and rosewood ply edge panelling to the reception / meeting rooms and bespoke steel and glass mobile workstations in the hair studios.

PMA designed and project managed the fitting out of offices and headquarters for YES Television a broadband TV network in Cardiff.

The 15,000sq.ft. complex was spread over 3no. floors with meeting rooms, offices, presentation suites, editing studios and a call centre.

New office fit out for the shopfitting project management company Pearce.