If you’re not familiar with the area, strike out for London’s Liverpool Street station and then veer towards Spitalfields, with its huge 19th-century market building now repurposed as prime retail space, its Hawksmoor church and cheery Victorian pubs. And then turn down Hanbury Street – past a much-lauded fish and chip restaurant, and another turning off towards the record store Rough Trade East – and bisect the curry houses and vintage clothing stores of Brick Lane. There, down the scruffy end of the street, lies Second Home, the buzzing, year-old co-working space imagined into being by former Downing Street policymaker and evangelist of entrepreneurship Rohan Silva and his business partner Sam Aldenton.
The former carpet factory is now fronted by a curved bubble of what might seem to be glass or Perspex but, in keeping with the project’s determination to celebrate innovation, is in fact a sustainable material that has never before been used in a British building. Behind it, Second Home’s tenants – a carefully blended mix of startups and established businesses ranging from tech and energy companies to film-makers, PRs and investors – sit in Jago, the canteen-cum-bar catered for by a former Ottolenghi head chef, which is also open to the public.
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The former carpet factory is now fronted by a curved bubble of what might seem to be glass or Perspex but, in keeping with the project’s determination to celebrate innovation, is in fact a sustainable material that has never before been used in a British building. Behind it, Second Home’s tenants – a carefully blended mix of startups and established businesses ranging from tech and energy companies to film-makers, PRs and investors – sit in Jago, the canteen-cum-bar catered for by a former Ottolenghi head chef, which is also open to the public.
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