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Your Guide to Office Space in Shoreditch
Situated between Liverpool Street and Old Street, no other area encapsulates the East End’s changing face more so than Shoreditch. Today, the ultra-hip neighbourhood is a monument to the entrepreneurial renaissance that seized East London in the mid-nineties and remains a beacon that is a draw for the UK’s best creative minds.
The turn of the millennium saw a mass migration of creatives (like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin) and design businesses heading east in search of affordable studios and roomy workspaces in well-lit former industrial buildings. In the years since, Shoreditch has become fully regenerated – with hip bars, artisan food vendors and designer boutiques sprouting up alongside stylish office developments.
Today, the stoic red-brick facades of the district’s Victorian factories sit snuggly between the cutting-edge glass and metal structures of new-build residential developments, all framed against a starry horizon of the City’s skyscrapers. Eclectic, vibrant, yet smart enough for corporates to feel at home, the area has an increasingly wide appeal. And as firms new and old compete to attract a new generation of tech-savvy workers, a serviced office space in Shoreditch or even a coworking space has an unrivalled cachet.
15,000
A hotbed of creativity, more than 15,000 new businesses set up in Shoreditch and Old Street in 2014 alone – nearly five times the amount in Canary Wharf.
Highlights and hidden gems
Who’s there?
The world’s biggest e-commerce brand, Amazon, moved its UK HQ to a Shoreditch office in 2017; the newly built Principal Place. The 15-storey, 600,000 square foot block sits at the bottom of Worship Street and houses nearly a thousand staff working in research and development and operations. Game developer Improbable also moved into the area in 2018, with its Spitalfields office now home to more than 320 staff.
In the area…
When it comes to eating out, variety really isn’t something you’ll struggle with when finding your feet in the area. That means you have little excuse for buying a lifeless sarnie at lunch, especially if you’re looking for more than just ham and cheese. Using your loaf, Kêu Banh Mi Deli on Old Street is the perfect place for a god-tier Vietnamese baguette – we recommend the glazed pork belly – or Franco’s Rivington Street for a proper East End fry-up and cup of Rosie.
After-work dining is truly when Shoreditch comes into its own. From Michelin-starred The Clove Club by Shoreditch Town Hall, to hand-made pasta specialists Burro e Salvia off Redchurch Street, it’s virtually impossible to get from the top of Brick Lane to the bottom of Hoxton without stumbling over a world-class eatery. Honourable mentions include Xi’an Biang Biang Noodles, Blanchette East and Smokestak for a flavour journey that takes you from East to West.
And when dinner rolls into aperitif territory, the neighbourhood certainly has earned its reputation for having perhaps the best nightlife scene in London. Spearheading this boozy index is Happiness Forgets, an intimate no-nonsense cocktail bar on Hoxton Square that cracked the top ten of the World’s 50 Best Bars poll in 2016. Membership at Shoreditch House is a must, too, if you’re wanting to hob-knob with some of London’s leading creatives.
That’s not forgetting there’s something for the ‘specialist’; Bull in a China Shop has more than 100 Scotch and Japanese whiskies behind its bar, while Lounge Bohemia provides a crash course in “molecular mixology” (think Heston Blumenthal, but with cocktails). For a more low-key after-work scoop, you can’t go wrong with classic East London boozer The Bricklayers Arms on Charlotte Road, or The Owl & Pussycat, which is a heartbeat from Shoreditch High Street station.
Xi’an Biang Biang Noodles
Rooftop dips at members’ club Shoreditch House
Shoreditch House, mingle with media bigwigs
Bare bricks and ultra hip
Bustling Brick Lane, on your doorstep
The Clove Club – Michelin-starred British cuisine
Burro e Salvia, for hand-made pasta
Bitesize French eats at Blanchette East
Shoreditch office space prices
AVERAGE
£612
Private office
£464
Fixed desks
£344
Hot desks
Guide prices are per desk per month.
Did you know?
- The Young British Artists of the nineties organised an annual fair in Shoreditch, firstly in Hoxton Square and then Rivington Street. Artists from the YBA collective, who were then reaching the height of their artistic fame, could be spotted at the ‘Fete Worse Than Death’, with the likes of Damian Hirst turning up to flog paintings off for a pound while Tracey Emin conducted palm readings.
- The East London Line (ELL), fondly referred to as ‘The Ginger Line’ closed in December 2007 after being an underground service that connected North and South London for more than 75 years. The long-awaited £1.5 billion revamp of the ELL reconnected Shoreditch with Crystal Palace in 2010, extending the line north with new stations at Hoxton, Haggerston and Dalston.
- Since the nineties, Shoreditch has become popular among start-ups looking for office space with an edge – a trend that shows no sign of abating. What makes Shoreditch special is the variety of blue-chip firms setting up shop in town; from music booking app Dice to eco-conscious food tech brand Winnow, many have benefitted from working side-by-side with like-minded inventors and innovators.
Nearby areas
Want to see what the wider neighbourhood has to offer? Why not read our guides for the nearby areas.
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