AstraZeneca – Restaurant and Office Building

To provide a “gateway” building onto the Macclesfield site with architectural styling appropriate to the manufacturing site.

To provide a new site entrance and reception building incorporating a wing of office accommodation, a new restaurant with kitchen facility and a suite of training and meeting rooms.

To consolidate site-wide dining facilities and provide a multi-functional space.

The facility should provide a highly flexible solution to allow for changing occupancy and different functional requirements.

Deliver a “People Centre” for this major Pharmaceutical site.

Develop the main part of the building under a double-curved roof supported by curved Glulam Beams to accommodate 800 diners on the ground floor. This space can be easily converted into an auditorium for 400 with full audio visual provision and stage. The central kitchen and servery are located behind the dining area.

A full-width balcony on the first floor forms part of the upper floor dining area which includes kitchen and private dining suites.

The third floor which also overlooks the restaurant accommodates a variety of training and meeting suites, support rooms and break out spaces.

A three-storey atrium link connects the entrance reception to three floors of open plan office with accommodation for 60 staff.

The 8,350 sq.m building was constructed in 16 months using an AstraZeneca-led alliance system. This involved close team working between contractors, designers, client and users.

Austin provided Architectural, Structural, Drainage and Engineering design services with ‘on-site’ support during the construction through to handover.

The 8,350 sq.m building was constructed in 16 months using an AstraZeneca-led alliance system. This involved close team working between contractors, designers, client and users.

Austin provided Architectural, Structural, Drainage and Engineering design services with ‘on-site’ support during the construction through to handover.