JTP’s Friends & Family Day
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JTP’s Friends & Family Day

Published on 14 February 2019

On Saturday 9 February 2019, JTP opened the doors to our new studio to welcome our friends and family to Pennington Street Warehouse.

Over 300 guests attended the day with some having travelled from as far afield as Italy, Rhodes, Cyprus and Ireland.

Our Managing Partner Marcus Adams and Project Architect Joe Worrall were on hand to lead tours, which provided the opportunity to see the imaginative transformation of our Grade II listed warehouse to create a healthy and sustainable studio, and collaborative workplace. 

The studio has been designed to respond to the way we work – creative, collaborative, and project based enabling major operational change in our working practices to provide greater flexibility; improved communication and knowledge sharing whilst promoting healthy lifestyles and social interaction.

The design of the studio also encourages health, sustainability and well-being. Through the careful specification of every material, adhesive, paint, timber, joinery, fabric, finish, cleaning product and furniture we are proud to have achieved a VOC-free environment with a post occupancy air quality assessment of “undetectable”.  

The tour included an exhibition which captured the fascinating history of the 200 year old building; cataloguing from its original use as secure bonded warehouse for the storage of rum and spices as part of the London Dock, to its notoriety as News International’s Printing Works in the 1980’s, and through to the regeneration of the present day.

While for some guests this was their first visit to Wapping, for others it was a trip down memory lane; former local resident and photographer Nic Oatridge, who supplied photographs of the 1986 Wapping Dispute for our in-house exhibition, visited the building for the first time in many years, whilst we discovered one of our employees’ great (x5) grandfather was a wine merchant at London Dock and may have even worked in our building!

We were proud to share our space with friends and family, and the feedback we received for both the studio and the open day was wonderful. 

We look forward to holding further events at the studio throughout the year as we become established in our new neighbourhood.