1-2 Broadgate
LONDON - IN PROGRESS
BBUK have been appointed by British Land to work with AHMM on the terraces and public realm of their new building at 1 - 2 Broadgate.
Eighteen terraces wrap around the building with generous planting beds positioned outside the balcony railings where the plants will be encouraged to cascade over the edges and be clearly visible from the streetscape,
thereby adding some much-needed greenery to this very urban part of London. The planting strategy will also enhance the internal office spaces with graduated, coloured planting wrapping horizontally around the building, designed to change in harmony with the seasons.
The public realm will have an avenue of plane trees planted along the new building frontage, and the existing pocket park is re-designed to provide much needed seating and will feature a wall of evergreen climbers with Gleditsia trees surrounded by shade tolerant low growing under planting are used to enclose the space, and provide a green ‘ceiling’.
CGI visuals © Hayes Davidson.