Techspace Brand Guidelines: Old Street 2012, Tech-Only Workspace in London and Berlin

A workspace operator that chose its tenants first.

Techspace is a London flexible workspace operator that houses technology companies. The company says it was founded in April 2012 “in the heart of Old Street’s technology ecosystem”, the cluster of start-ups around the Old Street roundabout on the edge of Shoreditch, and grew from a small community of start-ups into a business with buildings in London and Berlin. BDC Magazine, reporting on the company in November 2026, also gave its founding as London in 2012. The trading company today is Techspace Group Ltd; Companies House lists Techspace Group Limited, formerly Techspace Property Group Limited, as incorporated in November 2014.

The name is the strategy. Where many flexible workspace brands aim at anyone who needs a desk, Techspace describes its buildings as “workspaces built for Europe’s most ambitious tech companies”, and its own pages talk about members by funding stage and team size rather than by trade. It says it houses more than 4,000 members from 150 companies across its London and Berlin sites, a figure BDC Magazine repeated in November 2026.

Its oldest London base still in use is in Shoreditch. BDC Magazine reported in November 2026 that Techspace had occupied 130 Clifton Street, EC2, for ten years and had extended its lease there by a further ten years after a refurbishment. The company lists the building as four floors and more than 20,000 sq ft, a short walk from Old Street and Liverpool Street stations; its location page describes it as a home for tech businesses in a district of bars and coffee shops. The amenities it lists there include a members’ café, a production room, bookable meeting rooms, bike storage and an events space, and the building is described as dog friendly.

Ice warehouses, libraries and a podcast.

Techspace’s buildings carry much of its identity, and the company tends to choose ones with a past. In Berlin its largest site, Eiswerk, sits on Köpenicker Straße on the banks of the River Spree, not far from Ostbahnhof. The company says the building was an ice store at the end of the 19th century, part of a site where blocks of ice were made in the neighbouring factory, kept in the warehouse and shipped along the river; the site was restored with the property company Trockland, and Techspace lists it as seven floors and more than 4,600 square metres for more than 750 members, with a members’ café on the ground floor, a coworking floor called The Studio and a multi-use room called The Vault. A second Berlin site is in Kreuzberg.

In London the newer buildings lean on design details as well as location. When St Andrew Street, near Chancery Lane and Holborn, opened in January 2026, the company wrote that its “Tech Library”, artwork and member illustrations were meant to show technology and creativity side by side, in spaces that “respect the past while being built for what’s next”. Its website lists seven London sites in November 2026 — Chiswell Street, Clifton Street, Commercial Road, Goswell Road, Scrutton Street, St Andrew Street and Worship Street.

The programme is part of the brand too. Techspace runs named event series for members — After Hours, with local DJs; Curious + Caffeinated, a morning show-and-tell in its cafés; Refresh and Reset, a 45-minute fitness session; and One Night Only, talks by tech leaders — and publishes a podcast, The Techspace Pod, with guests from member and partner companies. It also publishes a brand pack and a press page for media use, and lists its values in short plain phrases: “We care”, “We are open”, “We move with thoughtful pace”, “We strive to improve” and “We seek balance”.

Workspace as a branded room.

Flexible workspace operators sell something hard to photograph: the chance to rent a desk, a room or a whole floor for as long as a business needs it. Their websites lean on interior and lounge photography, usually wide shots of shared kitchens, meeting rooms and breakout areas published by the companies themselves, so a brand is often read through its furniture, lighting and materials rather than by its logo.

Naming does much of the work. Some operators keep the history of their buildings in view: Workspace Group, the London landlord, lets space in places it calls the Metal Box Factory, The Biscuit Factory and The Old Dairy. Others name tiers rather than buildings: JustCo, in Singapore, runs a premium main brand, a luxury line called The Collective and an essentials-focused concept written in lower case as the boring office, according to EdgeProp.

Membership is also handled through software. Operators list apps for booking rooms and desks, passes for using several centres, and virtual-office services, and their sites present these as part of the brand alongside the physical spaces. The words they choose for customers vary: members, tenants, teams or simply businesses.

Behind the lounges sit corporate pages on owners, buildings and cities. Some operators are listed companies or real estate investment trusts that publish their histories, portfolios and board changes; others are private or owned by property groups. This guide sets out what can be checked about each brand — who founded it, who owns it and where it operates — and marks clearly what rests only on the company’s own word.

A ninth site and a fifteen-year lease.

Techspace is led by chief executive Jonathan Bevan, whom the company’s leadership page describes as a former chief executive of Ministry of Sound and a former finance and operations chief at Clear Channel. In November 2026 BDC Magazine reported that Techspace had taken a 15-year lease on 25,725 sq ft in the refurbished D/ALS building on Chiswell Street, near Moorgate, from a joint venture between Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Greycoat Real Estate. The magazine described it as Techspace’s ninth location across London and Berlin, with workspace for up to 21 tech companies and about 400 people, 15 meeting rooms, a gym, a wellness studio, a roof terrace and an events space for 160 seated, which BDC called the largest the company has delivered. More than 40% of the space had been pre-sold to occupiers by the time of the announcement, the magazine reported.

Bevan told BDC Magazine that the company had “spent 12 years learning what high-performing teams need from a workspace”, and that it was prepared to commit to a conventional lease rather than a shorter arrangement. At the same building, BDC reported, Techspace runs a members’ lounge and a ground-floor café open to everyone working in the building — a model in which the workspace brand also acts as the host for a landlord’s shared spaces.

For a design guide, Techspace shows how a workspace brand can narrow its audience to a single industry and let old industrial buildings, events and a podcast carry the identity. Compare Huckletree, another London workspace for growing companies, and Second Home, also in London. For this guide we use ink blue, brick orange, warehouse grey and a muted teal with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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