Mackay + Partners
Studio 62
62 Lauderdale Tower
Barbican
London EC2Y 8BY
+44 (0)20 7608 1177
contact@mackayandpartners.co.uk
Press
Ken Mackay discusses his holistic approach to design on Jonathan Forster's Multi Story Thing Podcast of Interior Design.
The Multi Story Thinking Podcast on Interior Design
2021 / The Multi Story Thing Podcast of Interior Design.
Professional Lighting Design Magazine
2017 / Professional Lighting Design
Oases to dream: 10 small bedrooms that will inspire you
2016 / Homify - 10 Small Bedrooms
Mackay + Partners were shortlisted for the Project Minories Hotel for City of London, Building of the Year Award 2016
2016 / City of London Building of the Year
New Motel One Building on the Minories
The first commercial building in the UK featuring DuPont® Corian® as an exterior cladding solution....
2015 / E-architect
London lights up
In the heart of the City of London, Mackay + Partners has designed Motel One, the first commercial building in the United Kingdom with a sparkling facade.
2015 / Wmido
8 stylishly luxurious bathroom basins
When we think of bathroom basins, we often imagine the large semi-squashed half sphere manufactured from a sleek ceramic with white porcelain finish. However, these days the humble basin can be so much more.
2015 / Homify
Day and night video footage of Minories Hotel.
2015 / Minories Hotel Day and Night Footage
A series of video interviews with leading architects in the Molteni&C windows flagship store.
2015 / Molteni+ C Windowtalk
Conta Conta Spanish TV programme featuring Apartment 60.
2015 / Conta Conta Spanish TV
Mackay + Partners has created the UK's first Corian-clad building for Motel One's debut in the London hotel market....
2015 / Sleeper Hotel Design
The Minories latest addition, Motel One London Tower-Hill, has opened following a £18m demolition ...
2015 / Sleeper Magazine - Motel One
St Swithins Wine Shippers was a concept developed from a prototype store in Hong Kong.
2015 / Build Architecture Awards
DuPont ™ Corian® illuminates the architectural landscape of the City of London through the building shell in a Motel One built by Mackay + Partners
2015 / Design Me
The architectural firm Mackay + Partners has developed a project for a design hotel with its facade in Corian® with a strong visual impact.
2015 / Arketipo Magazine
The new Motel One building by Mackay + Partners in the City of London features a sleek, thermally-efficient façade made from DuPont Corian high-tech surface
2015 / Leisure Architecture
The new "Motel One" building by Mackay + Partners in London's Minories surprised with a backlit façade high-tech material DuPont Corian. The computer-controlled, color changing LED lighting system creates different patterns and gradients that communicate the message of the brand Motel One.
2015 / Fassade
From drab office to stylish apartment
This unusual project was full of complexities and challenges, which is what makes it particularly interesting for us to visit today. Formally used to sell apartments in the Barbican Estate, this central London office has been transformed into a remarkable home with spectacular luxury interiors.
2015 / Homify
Motel One is a hugely successful German owned hotel brand that launched in 2008. To date there are 47 hotels in the group..
2015 / GS Magazine
Illuminated hospitality
DuPont Corian is lighting up the architectural face of the City of London, with cladding for the new Motel One building by Mackay + Partners
2015 / FC&A
A Corian-clad colour wheel
Mackay + Partners has designed the stylish new 219 bed Minories Hotel in up-and-coming east London
2015 / World Architecture News
UK’s 1st Corian Clad building Minories Hotel, London EC3
2015 / Hotelier & Hospitality Design
Roman eagle found by archaeologists in City of London. The 1,800-year-old sculpture of the imperial symbol is regarded as one of the best pieces of Romano-British art ever found....
2015 / Roman Eagle Discovery at Minories Site
Vinoteca, a new wine bar and shop in London’s Soho was designed by Mackay & Partners to revive a late 19th century Victorian Warehouse.
2015 / Restaurant and Bar Design Awards Blog
The Minories welcomes new Motel One Hotel
A new £18M contemporary hotel will be gracing the skylines of the EC3 district of the City of London later this year.....
2014 / UK Construction Online
Central St Giles - British Home Awards. This has been the year when we have discovered a new pride in being British...
2012 / The Sunday Times
It’s not simply a coincidence that visiting the new London headquarters of global management consultant Deloitte Consulting is like checking into five-star boutique accommodation........
2012 / Fall in Love with Office
One of the most stylish bathrooms to use concrete in recent times was designed by Ken Mackay, senior partner at Mackay + Partners, for his own home in the Barbican, London. The Barbican has been at the zenith of cosmopolitan living for 30 years now.
2011 / Select Kitchen and Bathrooms
Wategos Beach. "A holiday home, 9272 miles from London, has to offer a very different environment, a true escape from urban London norms,"....
2011 / The Sophisticated Traveller
Minories Hotel London. Endurance Land & Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has announced that their proposal for a 253 guestroom hotel...
2011 / Sleeper Magazine
DuPont ™ Corian® lights up the architectural face of the City of London
Taking the place of a run-down office building in the heart of the City of London, the striking new "Motel One" building by "Mackay + Partners"....
2011 / Building Innovations Magazine
Central St Giles - Action stations for Crossrail...
2011 / Homes + Property
Hot property: noted architects. Buying a property designed by a well-known architect means that the value of your home is likely to increase with time.
2011 / FT
Central St Giles - Bloomsbury puts on a new face....
2011 / Homes + Property
Endurance consent for Minories Hotel. A new 258 room hotel scheme has bee approved for the City's eastern fringe, promising the novelty of both a green wall and roof, and exterior cladding in kitchen worktop material Corian.
2011 / Greater London Publishing 2011
Endurance Land and Scottish Widows Investment Partnership have won planning consent to develop a 258-room hotel in the City of London.
2011 / Property Week
Central St Giles - The new stars of Covent Garden....
2011 / Homes + Property
A lofty industrial space is the perfect FOIL for Flos and Moroso in London. To say that the new Flos-Moroso showroom in London lacks a corporate feel is an understatement.
2010 / Indesign
Central Saint Giles, London. Late in his career, the Italian architect Renzo Piano has raided the paintbox for an arresting central London development.....
2010 / The Guardian
Apartment 60 is a leading example of the value of regenerating Heritage listed buildings. Its success is in the preservation of the interior volumes and injection of modern materials against the original fabric.
2010 / NLA
Portal Restaurant. Where the artists, designers and other professionals go – the restaurants will follow. And it was Ken Mackay’s own friendship with Portuguese restaurateur and wine expert Antonio Correia that led him into another fruitful Clerkenwell partnership.
2010 / The White Book
New Central London Showroom for Moroso and Flos
Italian furnishing designing firm, Moroso joined hands with speciality lighting designer Flos..
2009 / FX
Moroso celebrates in London
Lively celebrations in London to inaugurate the new showroom opened, with Flos, the heart of the city. More than six hundred guests stayed well into the late evening in the fantastic space of over 600 square metres designed by Patricia Urquiola with the support of London firm Mackay & Partners.
2009 / Moroso
Clear Vision
The Corporation of London Barbican Estate Offices, once used to sell flats in the Barbican development, had been empty for a decade before being rescued in 2004.
2009 / The White Book
This award winning residential development was created on a derelict site. Mackay + Partner's brief was to create a high density urban apartment building which effectively combined contemporary architecture with sustainable environmental concepts.
2009 / Arch Daily
A hotel-style headquarters is the new base of global management consultant Deloitte.Mackay and Partners designed the visually stimulating workspace with the company’s on-the-go employees, many of whom are not normally based at the London office, in mind.
2009 / LS:N
It's not simply a coincidence that visiting the new London headquarters of global management consultant Deloitte Consulting is like checking into five-star boutique accommodation. The spectacular workplace, designed by Mackay + Partners, is intended to be used just like a hotel.
2009 / Arch Daily
Architects Mackay and Partners designed this private house overlooking the Pacific, near Byron Bay on Australia's east coast.
2009 / AR Plus
Located near the top of one of Australia’s best known beaches remarkable for landscape and beautiful beaches, this house still provides a sense of isolation and protection due to its placement and design.
2009 / Dezeen
A biotechnology company considers environmental health and sustainability for its new headquarters.
2008 / Greensources Magazine
Greater London House
Clarity and spatial freedom are emphasised by the serene chalk white shade of this staircase, giving a distinctive, refreshing feel to an often overlooked part of a building.
2008 / Zodiaq
Hall of mirrors
Clever design ideas about in the this stylish London flat, helping to create a dramatic sense of light and space.
2008 / Elle Decoration
A minimalist masterpiece
The Barbican's most stunning property is the family home of architects Ken Mackay and Tracey Wiles, who have create a minimalist masterpiece out of the former street-level premises of the Barbican estate office...
2008 / Evening Standard – Homes and Property
Time for reflection
As evening descends on Henriette Reed and Gavin Harris's London apartment, the mirrored surfaces help create a special ambience.
2008 / 25 Beautiful Homes
It ticks all the boxes
"Originally, this was the Barbican development's estate office in the 1960s. It has an awful lot of space...."
2008 / The Independent
..Mackay + Partners were employed by Serono to provide the interiors scheme for the headquarters, which completed construction in early January 2007..
2008 / Mix Interiors
Connectivity is the key for Mackay + Partners’ interiors scheme, designed to bring warmth and colour to Merck Serono’s translucent
Geneva HQ in Switzerland, built on an industrial electricity generating site.
2007 / Indesign Magazine Australia
Space and Texture
When a pair of architects got their hands on the Barbican's long disused estate office, they transformed it into a family home worthy of the iconic London landmark.
2007 / Elle Decoration Magazine
In the heart of Clerkenwell is Portal, a new modern-European restaurant. The former paint shop has been brought to life by co-owner and architect Ken Mackay.
2007 / Living Etc
Using natural cold water to cool interiors warmed by emissions from human related activities may not seem a breakthrough invention, but could be important in coping with global warming by reducing consumption of energy and emission of greenhouse gases.
2007 / Financial Express
Lake Superior
...every now and again, we find a project that ticks every single box; welcome to the new headquarters of Merck Serono in Geneva.
2007 / Mix Interiors Magazine
o2 Store Concept
o2 is poised to undertake a radical overhaul of its UK retail estate before the end of the year.The mobile phone giant has confirmed it is to re-invent its retail store format as a community space, and is to appoint a design consultancy.
2007 / Design Week
Heart of Glass
Global biotechnology giant Merck-Serono promotes cross-collaboration style with a Geneva campus designed by Murphy Jahn Architects and Mackay + Partners.
2007 / Contract Magazine
What do you consider to be your greatest professional achievement?
The Merck-Serono headquarters in Geneva (see "Heart of Glass"). This project brings together several stands of our work...
2007 / Contract Magazine
Like an unpolished gem, the limited space of Apartment H is reborn through the regnerating effect of mirrored surfaces.
2007 / Attitude Magazine
The Anglo-Australian Interior Designer Gavin Harris was born in 1967 and is one of the partners of Mackay & Partners office.
2007 / Attitude Magazine
Interior motives
Merck Serono's new HQ in Geneva combines cutting-edge design with a sense of community. London architects Mackay and Partners, who designed the building's 40,000 square metre interior...
2007 / BA Business Life magazine
Two London architects have converted an empty workspace in the Barbican into a hi-tech family home that's still in keeping with the functional spirit of the original 1970s building.
2007 / Out of Office
A new horizon
Mackay + Partners prides itself on its ability to create welcoming spaces within corporate schemes. The London-based practice feels a great deal of influence comes from work on hotels, such as London's the Sanderson, St Martins Lane Hotel and The Trafalgar.
2007 / On Office
Swiss on a roll
Working with Chicago architect Murphy Jahn, London-based Mackay + Partners expended considerable effort on ensuring that its interiors scheme complemented the rigorous architecture of the envelope while rendering warmth and personality to the interior spaces.
2007 / FX
Points of reference
Mackay + Partners have successfully created an interior design that allows employees to stay connected with each other.
2007 / Newdesign
Knock Knock
Designer Gavin Harris introduces his White Collection, a series of door furniture that adds a touch of humour to items normally taken for granted.
2007 / Frame
Mackay & Partners has been appointed by Mara Property Management as architects and interior designers for a four star 150-bedroom hotel in Nairobi.
2007 / Design Week
Leading Lights
The simplest ideas are often the best. Gavin Harris' Line of Light is simple in the extreme a metal extrusion holding two fluorescent...
2006 / RIBA Journal
Love Light
Nestled in the high density housing complex of the Barbican in London amongst the brutalist architecture of the 1960s is a little slice of Australia.
2006 / Indesign
Local Hero
The site of Clerkenwell Workshops has a colourful history, writes Mackay & Partners. A nunnery and apart of the Clerkenwell priory occupied the space in the Middle Ages.
2006 / Architecture Today
London, Harris, Brisbane, Geneva
...It's one thing to enjoy a weekly jaunt up or down the country.....but commuting into Geneva on a regular basis, over a number of years, is a completely different prospect.
2006 / Mix Interiors