Market leading development of luxury student accommodation in Reading town centre.

79 Silver Street is our fourth project with Morlet Properties, who specialise in luxury student accommodation across the country. Silver Street comprises of 64 studio apartments and features innovative communal spaces.

Our brief was to maximise the student experience and meet the exact standards of today’s design savvy student population. With a mission to create an ‘Instagrammable’ space, we succeeded in creating accommodation that is popular among the university’s growing oversees student population.

Referencing the ruins of Reading’s Abbey Quarter, we incorporated curves within the lobby desk design, as well as arched walls of the cinema room, lending an Art Deco feel to the communal spaces. In fact, curves and arches are referenced throughout the scheme, whether it’s in the wall art of the stairways, or in the design of the joinery for banquette seating with its tubular upholstery in the common rooms.

The lobby desk’s form proved a particular challenge, with its curvature enclosed in Cunard blue metro tiles. Our Interior Architecture department worked closely with joinery specialist Nova Interiors for the bespoke curved lobby desk, booth seating and the deep red feature wall in the cinema room.