Based on the ground floor of a Grade II listed building, the Studio Nicholson headquarters occupy a former coroner’s court in the heart of east London. The premises at 5 Calvert Avenue were built during the late 1890s, as part of the renowned Boundary estate – which is credited as being one of the world’s first social housing schemes.

With streets designed to radiate from the central bandstand at Arnold Circus, it was finally completed in 1901, and all tenement blocks and accompanying shops are now classed as a conservation area...