The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is a Grade I listed building designed in 1861 by Sir George Gilbert Scott and Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. Jordan + Bateman Architects were commissioned to design an in-house Language Training Facility for FCO staff, using redundant space within the historic main building. The FCO required sound proof teaching spaces of varying size and layout, arranged around a flexible and easily adaptable space, and incorporating additional facilities such as library, quiet areas and multi-media facilities, with the core of the new language training facility located in the base of one of the historic light wells.