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Built for those who think bigger
Known for its disruption, innovation and design, Here East continues to redefine what London’s workspaces should offer. The concept of a creative office, with glass walls, communal desks and the appearance of flexibility, is now standard across the city. However, the idea that this alone is enough to inspire and support creativity no longer holds true. Today’s most ambitious teams need space that is shaped around how they design, make and collaborate. They are looking for environments that genuinely enable their work rather than spaces that are just visually modern and appealing.
Across 1.2 million square feet, the Here East campus gives organisations a blank canvas to shape space around real processes. Studios can operate as workshop floors, production rooms can sit beside design offices, and rehearsal spaces can share walls with labs. Teams have the room to invent, test, rehearse, build and collaborate at full scale. It is flexibility not as a trend but as a foundation for real creativity and growth.
Many tenants choose Here East because the space adapts to them. Plykea has created a studio that works as a design office, a production space and a client showroom in one. Hawk London has built a secure technical facility for high end film equipment, combined with a professional environment for clients and industry partners.
This mindset runs across the campus. Plexal has transformed part of the former Press Centre into an innovation hub for startups, scaleups, government departments, corporates and entrepreneurs. It brings these groups together to work on everything from cyber and AI to health, mobility and national security challenges. Rather than traditional co-working, it provides maker spaces, secure offices, rapid-prototyping labs and collaboration programmes designed to help organisations solve real-world problems and scale new ideas.
The academic community follows the same principle. Universities including UCL, Loughborough University London, Staffordshire University London, LMA and Teesside University have created spaces that mix teaching, research, fabrication, robotics, media production and industry engagement. Students work in real studios, labs and offices, often alongside the businesses they may soon join. It blurs the line between campus and workplace and makes education part of the real world.
The cultural organisations at Here East take this idea even further. The V&A East Storehouse has transformed a space larger than 30 basketball courts into a new kind of museum environment, where conservation labs, archives and public experiences share the same floorplate. Studio Wayne McGregor has built studios that allow dancers, choreographers and technologists to work at the dimensions of real London stages. Scale becomes a creative tool rather than a constraint.
At Here East, spaces can be workshops, stages, labs and offices all at once. The campus is built for organisations that do not believe creativity begins and ends at a desk. It is a celebration of making and ambition, and a place where people have the freedom to build and create at scale.
