Shackerley has helped Dexter Moren Architects to deliver a landmark 392-bedroom hotel building at Number 1 City Road, London, for the UK’s leading budget hotel brand Travelodge.
The £60m project is Travelodge’s largest hotel to date and is also the biggest low-cost hotel to be built in the capital in over a decade. In a premium location in Central London this ambitious development incorporates the Grade II listed Lowndes House building, constructed in the late 1920s for the Singer sewing machine company. However the bulk of the hotel is a new adjoining seven-storey building featuring Shackerley’s contemporary ceramic granite ventilated facades, specifically designed to reflect the rhythm of the historic building and to follow its neo-Baroque proportions and styling.
 The architects sought a façade material that would work in sympathy with the original building. Working closely with Shackerley and the planners at Islington Borough Council, they specified a particular style and colour of ceramic granite in a natural textured finish that would complement the existing Portland Stone, but with a contemporary twist.
Shackerley was required to provide all 750 rainscreen façade panels in bespoke sizes which ranged from small and narrow infills up to the largest panels measuring over 1500mm by 1000mm. Each 30mm thick ceramic granite panel was supplied ready to install on site complete with Shackerley’s hanging brackets securely affixed to the rear using a patented anchor system. The brackets allowed the contractors, Baris, to mechanically fix each slab securely to Shackerley’s horizontal carrier rails which were installed on the exterior of the new building. All prefabrication work – cutting, drilling and bracketing - was carried out at Shackerley’s Lancashire factory.
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