1 Broadgate
LONDON - Completed
Winner: The Architect's Company: Building of the Year Award
1 Broadgate is a new Landmark mixed use building located to the rear of Liverpool Street Station designed by architect and lead consultant AHMM.
BBUK designed the public realm including the western edge of the building, where we added an avenue of trees giving visual interest to the main entrance, located opposite, is a new pocket park featuring raised planting beds with new semi mature trees, The park has an historic sculpture called 'Bellerophon Taming Pegasus' by Jacques Lipchitz (1966) as a focal point, and this was moved from its original position to give it the setting and prominence it needed.
From the fourth to eighth floors the building is fringed with 18 terraces in carefully considered planting provided in generous troughs integrated into the balustrades; these provide a colour wheel around the circumference of the building’s facade which was designed to provide year round interest on each of the north, south, and eastern elevations, working in harmony with the building’s ombré coloured cladding. Our carbon-sensitive landscape design strategy focused on both reducing carbon emissions from materials and increasing carbon sequestration.