Aldine Voss

Stonebridge Aldous

Stonebridge Aldous is a software development company in Central London commissioned through Haverstock Associates. The interior scope was assigned to Aldine Voss at technical design stage. The client builds financial infrastructure for large fintech companies. The building is a converted light industrial space. The brief was to make it work for six people with four distinct ways of working — without making it feel like an office fit-out.

Status

Completed 2026

Status

Completed 2026

Architect

Haverstock Associates

Architect

Haverstock Associates

Developer

Private Client

Developer

Private Client

Builder

Calloway & Marsh

Builder

Calloway & Marsh

The Start

Haverstock Associates had established the architectural approach before Aldine Voss were appointed: white-painted brick, polished concrete floor, black-painted ceiling with services left exposed, steel-framed industrial glazing retained from the original building. The structure was not being disguised. It was being clarified. The interior brief had to follow that logic — nothing introduced that the building had not already implied.

The client's working model is unusual. Two co-founders do the technical work. Four support staff handle everything around it. Client meetings happen in a dedicated space. And one room in the building has no wifi and no mobile signal — by design, for deep uninterrupted thinking. Each of those requirements needed a resolved interior. None of them needed to announce themselves.

The mid point

The entrance and team workspace occupy the largest volume — white brick, dome pendants, oak desking on black steel legs, polished concrete running without interruption from the door to the rear of the floor plate. The support team's four desks sit here, arranged to allow independent working without acoustic separation. The planting is dense and deliberate: terracotta pots, large-leaf species, positioned to define zones without introducing partitions the architecture had not asked for.

The conference room seats twelve around a single long oak table, with two adjacent desks for smaller client meetings and team reviews. The gallery wall — mixed frames, prints, and objects — is the only moment in the building where the brief allowed for something that was not strictly functional. It works because everything around it is.

The quiet room and the founders' workspace are the two rooms the brief was most specific about. The quiet room has no wifi, no mobile reception, and no visual connection to the rest of the floor — a single desk, a chair, a window, and nothing else asking for attention. The founders' workspace holds two workstations with paired monitors, floating oak shelving, and the same black ceiling and brick walls as every other room. The separation between the two spaces is physical, not symbolic. Each room does exactly one thing.

Final result

Stonebridge Aldous was delivered on programme through Haverstock Associates. The interior held to the architectural language of the conversion without deviation — the brick, the concrete, the exposed ceiling running as a single system from the entrance to the founders' room at the rear. Every working mode the brief asked for is spatially resolved. Nothing was left to be addressed after occupation.

Working with Aldine Voss required us to do very little managing. We handed them the drawing set, we agreed the brief, and they disappeared into the work. What came back was interior documentation that sat inside our own set as though it had always been there. That is exactly what we needed.

James Ostler, Ostler & Finn

Haverstock Associates retained full authorship of the conversion. Aldine Voss brought an interior scope that matched the technical rigour of the architectural package — specified to perform under daily professional use, documented to the tolerance the builder required, and delivered without the practice having to manage the process.

"The brief had more layers than it appeared. A company that works in two completely different modes — heads-down technical development and high-stakes client presentation — needs an interior that supports both without compromising either. Aldine Voss resolved that from the first drawing set. The client moved in and started working. That is the outcome we were looking for."

"Studio Aldine is a specialist interior design partnership working exclusively with architecture practices and design agencies — embedded in your team, carrying your brief, credited to your practice"

Haverstock Associates

Joanne Smith

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"Working with Aldine Voss required us to do very little managing. We handed them the drawing set, we agreed the brief, and they disappeared into the work. What came back was interior documentation that sat inside our own set as though it had always been there. That is exactly what we needed."

James Ostler, Ostler & Finn