Three Chamberlain Square is shaped by two sets of columns. The first are unremarkable to look at – simple, square pillars of exposed concrete on an office floorplate – but may change the way we think about workplace design. The second are big, nearly 200 years old, and impossible to ignore.

Designed by FCBStudios, Three Chamberlain Square is the fourth commercial building to be delivered as part of the £1.2bn Paradise masterplan in central Birmingham. It is also one of the first new workplaces to emerge from those long covid-driven discussions about the future of the office. With 17,500sq m of all-electric, grade A office space equipped to be net-zero carbon in operation, it is the first BREEAM Outstanding building and first NABERS five-star base building in the West Midlands, and has impeccable smart and wellbeing credentials, with WiredScore and ActiveScore Platinum ratings.