London’s Best Office Spaces – The Links Between London’s Past and the Modern World

We have recently upgraded the Prestige Offices website, adding a large number of London office buildings that offer high-end, flexible workspace solutions, such as premium managed offices, luxury serviced offices, and first-class coworking spaces, in line with the growing market. See the updated website here During the enhancement project, as we always do when adding new properties, we researched...

Like many of the period properties we list, our website has undergone a significant enhancement process. We have added more hand-picked premium office properties to the site. These offer first-class managed office space in London, luxury serviced offices and high-end co-working spaces. We believe these are some of the best office spaces in London. They are located in characterful buildings, both n...

Whilst we normally speak about buildings with great heritage and history that have been transformed to provide premium office space for the modern world, we thought that we should make an exception for The Shard. Clearly a modern development, The Shard stands dominantly in the historically significant London Bridge district on the southern bank of the Thames. Opened to the public in 2013, The Shar...

The podcast episodes that we normally record are focused on historically important properties in London that have had their lives extended by repurposing them as modern offices – this, in our opinion, makes them some of the best office spaces in London. London has, of course, experienced many epidemics over its history as well as other natural disasters but none quite the same as the global Covid-...

The Royal Exchange in the City of London was founded in the 16th century, in 1565, by the merchant Sir Thomas Gresham to act as a centre of commerce for the City. The site was provided by the City of London Corporation and the Worshipful Company of Mercers, who still jointly own the freehold interest of this landmark. It was London’s first purpose-built centre for trading stocks and was modelled o...

The striking nine-storey Victoria House in Holborn is built in the neoclassical style and is complete with Portland stone facades. It is actually described as being built in the ‘Néo-Grec’ style which was a Neoclassical revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularised in during the reign of Napoleon the third who reigned from 1852 to 1870. The Néo-Grec style was inspired by 18th-...

In the area surrounding Chancery Lane Tube station, there is a large cluster of some of London’s most important properties. Indeed, on the map of the area on the Historic England website, it appears that there are almost as many listed buildings as those that are not listed. One of those properties is No.25 Southampton Buildings and this sits in the heart of the Chancery Lane Conservation Area. Th...

The eccentric Michelin House sits on Fulham Road in Kensington and its history is as colourful as its façade. It was built in 1911 and was the first permanent UK headquarters and depot of the Michelin Tyre Company. Designed by one of Michelin's employees, the striking building has three large stained-glass windows based on Michelin advertisements of the era, all featuring the Michelin Man, also kn...

Bruton Street is located in Mayfair in the West End of London and has a surprising past. No.17 Bruton Street was once a townhouse that belonged to the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and his wife who were the maternal grandparents of Queen Elizabeth II. And it was in this house, at 2.40 am on the 21st April 1926, that the Queen was born. The property has changed significantly over the decades and...

An extraordinary building on Old Bailey sits opposite ‘The Old Bailey’ just steps from the magnificent St Paul’s Cathedral – possibly London’s most iconic historical landmarks. ‘The Old Bailey’, today, is the common term for the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, which is the most famous criminal court in the land and is named after the street that it dominates. The Old Bailey sits just...

Its modern name is believed to have roots in the 7th Century and so has long been a part of the City of London’s history. There is also evidence that, before it was christened, it was part of the Roman settlement of ‘Londonium’ with remnants of ancient life being found 10 feet below today’s pavements and bus lanes. Skip forward several centuries and Lothbury found itself playing a part in modern h...