Situated on a prominent site overlooking the River Thames and Richmond Deer Park and situated in close proximity to the listed Maria Grey College, the Denebank Engineering Works was a site with potential for sensitive development.

The owners wanted to redevelop their light engineering works for office use and EUA designed a speculative office building drawing strongly on Scandinavian modernist influences combined with EUA's own interests in light, section, detail and material. Issues faced by EUA during the planning process were:

• interest from English Heritage and The RFAC (now CABE) including two full presentations
• flood bunding
• careful attention to massing, views and detail with respect to the setting of the listed building
• the LA's desire to construct a riverside walk
• the retention of a rare Victorian boathouse fragment within the centre of the scheme
• ecological
• river conservation issues