AstraZeneca Middlewood Court
Macclesfield
Location
Macclesfield
Status
Completed 2016
Sector
Commercial
Client
AstraZeneca
We were appointed to create a world class workplace for up to 1000 AstraZeneca employees within Middlewood Court, on its Macclesfield campus.
The project provided an exciting opportunity to re-purpose a fading building, originally built as a manufacturing and packing facility in the 1960s and to re-define the future of AstraZeneca’s workplace portfolio. It was clear that this would not be an isolated project, and additional consideration was required to fully understand the significance of the commission within the wider context of the campus.
The key priorities set out by the client were to instil a sense of pride back into the Macclesfield campus, to retain and enhance the company’s presence within the North West and to relocate some core corporate departments alongside the manufacturing heart of AstraZeneca.
Championed by a forward-thinking client, this project delivered a workplace transformation and complete overhaul of a once conservative and insular internal culture and way of working. The design process and finished product has been so successful that it has gone on to inform a more progressive approach to workplace design across all AstraZeneca sites.
“SpaceInvader’s vision for Middlewood Court exceeded our expectations – treating problems as challenges they have transformed the building into a unique destination where people want to go and work.”
Kate Derrick, Global Workplace, AstraZeneca
