A short walk from Shakespeare’s Globe and the Shard, this area is frequently divided by historic and contemporary perspectives and uniting them creatively is justifiably celebrated. The street’s name derives from the union of two once divided boroughs. Owned by a travel, PR and media company, the business were split across two sites and wanted to bring all the business under one roof. The buildings most significant neighbour is a towering Church with a spectacular round window, famed for its recent and radical union of Catholics and Anglicans for the Eucharist. The brief was to extend the building to the front and carry out a complete refurbishment. Any front extension would have acted as a barrier to the church, rendering its grand historic neighbour completely invisible. The design proposal sought to overcome this by creating a semi-circular void of curved glazed brick, a ‘visual bridge’ that unites two otherwise divided views and locations, framing the Church’s round window. The clients distinctive building, containing; expansive studios, offices, apartments and gardened roof terrace, now emphatically conveys the client’s capacity for creative connectivity and for providing focused and effective channels of communication.