From flax mill to creative industries incubator
Marshall’s Mill
Marshall's Mill is a former flax spinning mill on Marshall Street in Leeds. A key part of industrial pioneer John Marshall’s impressive textile production campus, it is one of Leeds’s most important heritage assets.
Group Ginger’s pared-back design makes minimal interventions to the existing building fabric to adapt it to contemporary workspace for the creative industries. The building’s history is revealed by removing previous layers of occupation, and new insertions establish a series of flexible workspaces of varying sizes. Special attention was placed on the common areas of the building, social areas where new inhabitants could mix and network.
The works included a new entrance vestibule, foyer reception, landscape approach and 70,00sqft of refurbished office suites. Occupant well-being was a key consideration driving the design ethos and through this project Group Ginger authored a research paper discussing the adoption of, ‘the five ways to wellbeing’ to explore a different design approach focussed on inhabitants rather than space.
