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So far Simon Black has created 25 blog entries.

Market Place Bar

A slightly unusual project in that we were introduced to the client on a Friday and started on Saturday with no drawings, only a detailed brief from the two fantastic owners! With lots of on-site discussions, changes, and very long hours we turned around this refurbishment in 2 ½ weeks. The bar has been open and thriving ever since. It is a great venue and well worth a visit, especially as it is 2 doors from our office!

Reformation UK

This was another great project undertaken with LXA. This high-end American brand chose Covent garden as its UK flagship store and we were delighted to be chosen to carry out the works!

The M&E included all new lighting, additional a/c, 2 dumbwaiters from the basement to the ground floor as well as power and data to the touchscreen TVs and iPads. The interior design by Guarnieri Architects featured specialist plaster finishes to the changing rooms and joinery plus a beautiful refurbished timber floor.

Hanson Street

Vortex recently completed this external refurbishment for Adair Surveyors. The works required a full scaffold and entailed the refurbishment and decoration of the shopfront, windows, and roofs to front and rear elevations.

Vortex Jazz Club

Before you ask the name is purely a coincidence and we do not run a Jazz Club!

The project was designed by ‘Unknown Works’ architects. It involved new lighting and decorating the ceilings and walls in black. A purpose-built moveable bar and sound desk were created, along with black rubber flooring to create a great space for jazz practice sessions and gigs.

Janes Group

Vortex recently completed the Cat B fit-out of Janes Group’s new 10,000 sq foot offices in Croydon. We installed double-glazed crittall style meeting rooms, a large breakout and kitchen area with a feature ceiling, and installed all of the new furniture. Lighting, power, mechanical additions and adjustments completed the 9 week project.

St Mary at Hill

This ground and lower ground floor apartment in the City was one of the may casualties of the severe weather London experienced in late 2021. The property required a full strip-out and refit, apart from the top half of the plasterboard walls and ceilings!

Rowland Place

This project for Brown & Lee Surveyors involved the complete strip-out of a bank, including 3 safes in the basement, to prepare for the new tenants.

Hope & Dreams Nursery

Vortex carried out the full refurbishment of this 5 storey double fronted Georgian building that is home to Hopes & Dreams Nursery with LXA. As the nursery was open and operational during the whole of the 14 week programme each floor was completed in turn and then the children moved into the latest completed space. The £360k project included new lighting, a/c, kitchens, flooring, w.c.’s, and decoration throughout as well as an outside soft play area.

Schooner Bar

Vortex is delighted to have completed a new bar in Ram Quarter in Wandsworth. A complete fit-out within a new development involving polished concrete floor, designer bar, with all services connected to the house system.

Moat & Lyceum Schools

Vortex are delighted to have completed 3 projects for the Moat and Lyceum School group on their ongoing refurbishment programme. Sites included Hammersmith, Fulham and The City. We look forward to many more projects in the educational sector over the coming year.

Nationwide Office Rollout

Vortex are pleased to announce that we have completed our 3rd office fit-out for a national loans company which so far have included Trowbridge, Enfield, Norwich, and we have many more to come.

West London Residential

A Residential fit out of a prestigious new apartment block in West London, from concrete frame through to completion over a 15 month programme.

Dalston Works

Vortex Dalston Site

A 42 week project comprising the extension to a 3 story office building including piling, structural steel, new floor throughout plus a new roof followed by a full fit-out.

Woodbury Down

Full fit-out of a 10,000 sq ft concrete shell to create a multi-tenanted office including full M&E, glass partitions, a central curved “pod” to house the tea point, breakout areas as well as the WC’s and showers.

Anita Lawrence, New Kings Rd

Updated to create a new visual concept, keeping the salon in line with a fresh, modern, and appealing look. Completed to an extremely tight schedule of 10 days to meet the client’s grand opening.

Old Bond St

A ‘white box’ retail outlet refurbishment for a local property management company in order to attract new tenants. Consisting of marble flooring, white partition walls, sprayed black ceiling including services and new lighting.

Oxford Street

Refurbishment of 1500ft2 office space  for a property management company. Including redecoration, new flooring, new lighting, new secondary glazing and waterproofing to damaged areas of the roof.

Rivermill

Common parts refurbishment, internal decoration throughout, asbestos removal and 42 x fire rated front door and side cupboards installation to an exclusive apartment block set on the Thames.

Hertz, Stratford International

Another small project to add to 2018 with our Hertz outlet creation constructed in an empty space within the concourse of Stratford International Railway Station.

Romans, West Drayton

A good start to the year with Vortex completing a small fit-out for Leaders Romans Group in West Drayton including full refurbishment to office, WC’s and kitchen areas.

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