The Requirement
The designers for Microsoft’s new premises in Atherstone, Warwickshire focused on creating a building that would be in tune both with its rural surroundings and also with the inventive and artistic profession of the occupants. The premises are the headquarters and design studio for Microsoft’s acquisition of Rare, the X-box video game development company.
The design of the building is based on a large barn with attractive contemporary wooden panelling and external posts and beams. Running alongside these posts and beams is dramatic aerofoil solar shading and weather louvres designed by Zefyr, the façade and roofing specialists.
