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Reigate Station
200 m north

Watson House
RH2 9PQ

02.1 / Home ground

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

Watson House,
made a home.

From above
51.2403° N / 0.2043° W

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· Home ground

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02.1 / Home ground

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

The landmark

Watson House stands on the town’s front path, and has been WTW’s home here for more than three decades.

Fonteyn’s statue in the grounds

The 1849 station

The London Road crossing

The tunnel

The High Street

The stone in St Mary’s

1878

R. Watson & Sons, the oldest actuarial practice in the country

Photos via Geograph, cc-by-sa/2.0: 01 Marathon 02 Paul Gillett 03 Ian Capper 04 Ian Capper 05 Stacey Harris 06 Ian Capper

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· The landmark

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02.1 / Home ground

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

The house

We propose the same for Watson House: keep what works, invest where people meet and make the building worth the journey.

What a house has

Door

A reception that welcomes you

Hall

A shared space where something is always happening

Stairs

Worth the climb

Tables

The Heart, where everyone comes together

Rooms

Calm space for focused work

Was · Market hall

Now

Café

Was · Windmill

Now

Chapel

Was · Priory

Now

School

Was · Caves

Now

Stores, shelters, a venue

Photos via Geograph, cc-by-sa/2.0: all Ian Capper

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· The house

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02.2 / How we design

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

Where the design comes from

We start with three sources, and choose what to take from each before anything is drawn.

From the Stage 2 design, we take the planning and the greens. From WTW’s offices around the world, we take a house style flexible enough to suit a building of this age. From your brand, we take its colours and typeface as they stand today. On the walls the colours are muted; on the screens, colour and type appear at full strength.

Everything we take then goes through one test. Only what passes makes it into the materials and key spaces that follow.

What we looked at

Where the design comes from

Stage 2 design

The planning and the colour palette

01.1

01.2

01.3

01.4

01.5

WTW offices worldwide

A flexible house style

02.1

02.2

02.3

02.4

02.5

Your brand

As it stands today

03.1

03.2

03.3

03.4

03.5

One test

Will it last for 12 years, and does it have a place at Watson House?

What passes

Calm, local and built to last

The funnel

Every design choice comes from one of three sources, and only what passes one test makes it through.

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· The funnel

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→ The design

Greens in the palette, desks along the windows.

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· What the design answers

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The Heart

The Stair

Main entrance

Second floor

First floor

Ground floor

The energy scale

Low to highest

Open plan

Low

Meeting spaces and the client suite

Medium to low

Tea points and breakout

Medium

The stair and reception

Medium to high

The Heart

Highest

Unlit spaces and the core

Not on the scale

02.3 / The building and the stack

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

The
building

Hover the key to light up each space

Scroll to explore the stack ↓

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· The building

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The front door, the atrium stair, three landings

The energy scale

Low to highest

Open plan

Low

Meeting spaces and the client suite

Medium to low

Tea points and breakout

Medium

The stair and reception

Medium to high

The Heart

Highest

Unlit spaces and the core

Not on the scale

02.3 / The building and the stack

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

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· The stack

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02.3 / The building and the stack / Block plans

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· Ground floor

Block plans

Ground floor

First floor

Second floor

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Fit

Desks

257

on this floor

By block

132

Block A

125

Block B

96 of Block A in the contact centre

By desk width, mm

1400

1600

1800

153

Functional zones

24,240

sq ft · 52 rooms

Rooms

Sq ft

Workspace

11,033

Meeting

2,131

Collaboration

2,400

Tea point and breakout

1,184

Reception and atrium

2,368

Support

463

Circulation

4,661

Bars: the share of the floor, desks or area.

Desks

270

on this floor

By block

138

Block A

132

Block B

By desk width, mm

1600

131

1800

139

Functional zones

23,723

sq ft · 52 rooms

Rooms

Sq ft

Workspace

10,602

Meeting

2,260

Collaboration

2,745

Tea point and breakout

1,216

Reception and atrium

1,066

Support

301

Circulation

5,533

Bars: the share of the floor, desks or area.

Desks

112

on this floor

By block

112

Block B

Block B, none in Block A

By desk width, mm

1600

1800

Functional zones

21,228

sq ft · 46 rooms

Rooms

Sq ft

Workspace

4,445

Meeting

1,012

Collaboration

1,561

Tea point and breakout

549

Client suite

5,619

Reception and atrium

1,066

Restaurant

3,068

Support

194

Circulation

3,714

Bars: the share of the floor, desks or area.

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· Block plans

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02.4 / Key spaces

Reception and atrium

The door and the hall

View 01 · The hall, from the door · A study of mood and materials

An early study from our 3D model, developed with AI

Tap the purple points to look closer

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Fit

Reception and atrium plan

View 02 · The desk, from the turnstiles

View 03 · The waiting side

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02.4 / Key spaces

Landings and lobbies

The stair

“The walk upstairs doubles as a way of keeping up with the people in the building.”

Reference 01.1

Reference 01.4

Reference 01.7

Reference 01.2

Reference 01.5

Reference 01.3

Reference 01.6

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02.4 / Key spaces

The Heart

The table

The restaurant is the Heart of the house and, like a heart, it has two sides.

View 01 · The room at lunch · A study of mood and materials

An early study from our 3D model, developed with AI

Tap the purple points to look closer

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Fit

The Heart plan

View 02 · The tea point, from the tables

View 03 · The tiered seating and the tea point

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02.4 / Key spaces

Working wings

The rooms

Reference 01.1

Reference 01.2

Reference 01.3

Reference 01.4

Reference 01.5

Reference 01.6

“Colleagues joining when the Redhill office closes get a neighbourhood of their own, not a corner.”

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Fit

Open workspace

1,964

sq ft in three groups

Meeting

558

sq ft, four rooms of 4 and a pod of 8

Collaboration

1,182

sq ft, open, in four places

Tea point and breakout

610

sq ft at the wing door

Phone booths

2

and a print hub of 99 sq ft

The zones

Workspace

Meeting

Collaboration

Tea point and breakout

Support

Circulation

The plan: one neighbourhood

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02.4 / Key spaces

Client suite

The guest room

“The client suite is the guest room of the house.”

Reference 01.1

Reference 01.2

Reference 01.3

Reference 01.4

Reference 01.5

02.5 / Materials and samples

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

Materials

& Samples

05 Archways between spine and wings

01 Off-white walls

02 Wood

07 The lighting

G.01

Moss

G.02

Sage weave

G.03

Olive

A.01

Terracotta

A.02

Heather

A.03

Mist blue

A.04

Aubergine

03 Textured fabric

04 Quiet flooring

06 The joinery

08 Screens and framed prints

09 The comptometer

02.6 / Technical performance

WTW / Watson House, Reigate

Acoustics and technical performance

Our three key principles for the working wings

A

Walls and glazing

B

Ceilings and floors

C

Finishes

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· Acoustics

03 Deliver →

Watson House, made a home.

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Back

The landmark

Watson House stands on the town’s front path, and has been WTW’s home here for more than three decades.

Fonteyn’s statue in the grounds

1878

The house

We propose the same for Watson House: keep what works, invest where people meet and make the building worth the journey.

Door

Hall

Stairs

Tables

Rooms

Café

Chapel

School

Stores, shelters, a venue

What the design answers

01

One workplace: Reigate and Redhill together

02

Worth the commute: collaboration and connection made visible

03

Arrival, hospitality and client experience

04

Social energy balanced with focused performance

05

Social connection, serendipity and relationship building

06

Value over 12 years: standards that evolve and last

07

Personalisation

08

Connection to nature

The energy scale

Thebuilding

Reception and the stair

Tea points and breakout

Meeting spaces and the client suite

Open plan

The Heart

On the energy scale: medium to high

The energy scale

The stair and reception

Block plans

Ground floor

First floor

Second floor

257

132

125

24,240

270

138

132

23,723

112

112

21,228

Reception and atrium

The door and the hall

Reception and atrium plan

Landings and lobbies

The stair

The Heart

The table

The restaurant is the Heart of the house and, like a heart, it has two sides.

The Heart plan

Working wings

The rooms

1,964

558

1,182

610

2

The plan: one neighbourhood

Client suite

The guest room

Materials

& Samples

Acoustics and technical performance

Our three key principles for the working wings

The
building