PROJECT
E NIGM A SQUARE
Enigma Square is one of the latest residential developments by Grainger,
located in Milton Keynes, UK. Manchester-based design studio 74 were commissioned to create a scheme for the communal amenity spaces.
Enigma Square, in North Row, Milton Keynes, is a new £63m Build-
- hence the development's name Enigma Square'. There are subtle
To-Rent (BTR) residential development from Grainger, one of the
references made to this in details such as the embossed dots and
UK's largest listed residential landlord firms. Built where a former
dashes on the reception desk tiles, which suggest Morse Code, a
YMCA once stood, the now eight-storey residential development
method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as
comprises studios, one to two bed apartments, three bed duplexes,
standardised sequences of two different signal durations called
communal gardens, private balconies, and a multistorey amenity
dots and dashes, which were encrypted by the Enigma machine at
space. The latter was designed by leading UK interior designers in
the time.
BTR, 74.
For its third inspiration nature materials for the lighting fixtures
The studio has designed a meticulous thematic interior scheme for
were carefully considered to tie in natural elements throughout.
Enigma's amenity spaces, creating a concept inspired by the city
The city's connection with nature also inspired the colour palette
in which it's located. The area consists of a reception and back-of-
of blues and greens and use of timber, curved forms, and marbled
