🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 YY London
Wharf green Dating back to 1991, the former home of Thomas Reuters and one of Canary Wharf’s first steel-framed blocks, YY London has now...
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- May 23
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Park 20|20
Cradle-to-cradle green Located in a Dutch polder – land reclaimed from the sea – a new model of circular development that implements the...
- May 16
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 York House
Pentonville green One of the earliest office blocks built on Pentonville Road, this anonymous and foreboding 1980s block has been...
- May 9
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Tea Building
Brewing green Built for the iconic Lipton family in 1931, the Tea Building was used for smoking bacon in the 50s, then for packing tea....
- May 2
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 8 Bishopsgate
Jenga green Nicknamed ‘The Jenga’ thanks to its distinctive stacked blocks design – at a soaring 200m – 8 Bishopsgate boasts London’s...
- Apr 25
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Ancora 40
Just Eat green Inspired by London’s Shoreditch and NY’s Meatpacking District. Ancora 40 breathes new, post-industrial life into a former...
- Apr 18
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Zig Zag Building
Angled green Helping Victoria Street get its groove back, a building that’s thoughtful, flexible, and created with people in mind....
- Apr 11
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Hive
Northern green Winner of 2011 ‘Best Office in the North’, The Hive is a green workspace forerunner with a real creative buzz. 📍Location...
- Apr 4
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Black & White Building
Beech green In the midst of messy, dirty, difficult Shoreditch – London’s tallest engineered timber office building. Made from 1,774...
- Mar 28
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Snaefellsstofa Visitor Centre
Glacial green Set in Europe’s largest National Park, this minimalist building evokes the look, feel and majesty of a glacier. Its chief...
- Mar 21
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Bloom Clerkenwell
Bloomin’ green Straddling 3 undergrounds lines, Thameslink and Crossrail, Bloom is built to make business simpler and more effective – a...
- Mar 14
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Bindery
Art deco green Built on the site of a bookbinder, a jewellery maker, a clockmaker and a metal workshop – inspired by the local history of...
- Mar 7
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Kristian Augusts Gate 13
Upcycled green 1958 office building upcycled with 80% reclaimed materials. The architects’ biggest piece of advice for reuse: know your...
- Feb 28
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 100 Liverpool Street
Landmark green In a prime location next to Liverpool Street Station, this is a landmark refurbishment and extension of an unloved 1980s...
- Feb 21
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 EDGE Suedkreuz
Treehouse green Characterised by its atrium of flying staircases and tree trunk-like columns, EDGE Suedkreuz is a lightweight, feel-good...
- Feb 14
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The JJ Mack Building
Next gen green 150m from Farringdon Station and the new Elizabeth line – Smithfield’s new home of work. 📍Location EC1, London 🏢Building...
- Feb 7
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Somerset House Studios
Experimental green “Bringing experimental messiness back into central London” – this is the aim of Somerset House Studios. Transforming...
- Jan 31
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Plantworks
Urban-farm green Plantworks is London’s first urban farm office development. That’s right, tend to your vegetables one minute, tend to...
- Jan 24
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Booking.com HQ
Campus green Situated in Oosterdokseiland – one of the largest urban projects in Western Europe – Booking.com HQ is the new highly...
- Jan 17
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 70 St Mary Axe
Can of ham green Also known as “Can of Ham” thanks to its distinctive, gently curving façade. The shape of commerce and creativity in...
- Jan 10
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 R7
Pink-enveloped green Part of Argent’s King’s Cross regeneration, R7 stands out in its distinct shade of satin pink. Barriers between the...
- Jan 3
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Framehouse
Hangar green 12km south of Copenhagen, an industrial business area dotted with repurposed aircraft hangars. New construction takes...
- Dec 27, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 i9
Red-brick green With its stylish 3 cornered, red brick façade – i9 pays homage to Wolverhampton’s rich industrial history. At the heart...
- Dec 20, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Henrietta House
Human-centred green Henrietta House maximises movement, connectivity, collaboration and social capital. With experts from over 20...
- Dec 13, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 White Collar Factory
Long-life green In the epicentre of London’s Tech City, surrounded by Victorian warehouses, a simple idea, beautifully engineered....
- Dec 6, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 ART1
Reborn green In one of the world’s oldest cities, a few hundred metres from the Olympic Stadium, a 1983 block reimagined. ART1 is a new...
- Nov 29, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 22 Bishopsgate
Skyscraper green At 278m 22 Bishopsgate is London’s 2nd tallest building – plus the City’s 1st skyscraper built by female architect. A...
- Nov 22, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Erne Campus
PassivHaus green Profoundly pushing PassivHaus boundaries. First, the established ‘PassivHaus Classic’, then the ‘PassivHaus Plus’, now...
- Nov 15, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Angel Building
Early green Lumbering, unloved 1980s office block, saved from demolition. Occupied by BT for many decades until 2006, Angel Building was...
- Nov 8, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 HYLO
High green In London’s Silicon roundabout, HYLO melds old and new. An ambitious “cut-and-carve” job – stripping the 16-storey 1960s block...
- Nov 1, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Orange
Telecoms green Orange is the new green. Telecoms provider, Orange, has just launched their smartest, greenest ever branch and workplace....
- Oct 25, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 8 Bleeding Heart Yard
Edwardian-inspired green In the centre of Farringdon, nestled between the grand edifices of theatre-land and the sleek curves of the...
- Oct 18, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Central Bank of Ireland
Irish green Once a symbol of recession – an unsightly slab of concrete representing much that had gone awry for banking and construction...
- Oct 11, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 20 Fenchurch Street
Iconic green One of London’s most renowned – the Walkie-Talkie, the Walkie-Scorchie, the Pint – it has reaped all the headlines. 20...
- Oct 4, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 6 Orsman Road
Modular green With a flavour of Bauhaus, principles of reduce, reuse, recycle are explored to the next level in this demountable...
- Sep 27, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Space House
Brutalist green Originally built in 1968, Space House is a bright, bold, brutalist retrofit. A new, better type of space, giving people...
- Sep 20, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Mjøstårnet
Spruce green Norway spruces reach new Nordic heights. At 85.4m high, mixed-used Mjøstårnet is officially the world’s tallest timber...
- Sep 13, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Ingenuity House
Spaceship green In the words of the architect, “If it looks a bit like a spaceship has landed, that’s no bad thing. It’s a very harsh...
- Sep 6, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 16 Old Bailey
Grade II listed green Imposing and historically important, evoking the grand buildings of Paris. Sensitively redeveloped to meet demands...
- Aug 30, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Circus Street
Seaside green A 1792 city map was used as a blueprint for this development, inspired by Brighton Lanes’ historic origin, creating an...
- Aug 23, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 One & Five Bank Street
Outstanding green Dramatic sweeping façade, statement spiral staircase. Bounded by water on both sides – one of the last commercial lots...
- Aug 16, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Freiburg Town Hall
Positive green Nestled behind sweeping sycamore trees, a natural oval form that cannot help but inspire curiosity. Product of holistic...
- Aug 9, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 11 & 12 Wellington Place
People-first green Northern green powerhouse and community hub, 11 & 12 Wellington Place offers far more than flexible workspace. Set...
- Aug 2, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Brunel Building
Robust green Facing IK Brunel’s 1854 Paddington Station, this building demands a flamboyant, robust design. Spirit of Great Victorian...
- Jul 26, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Bánáti + Hartvig HQ
1960s green An architects’ workplace, designed by themselves, naturally. This renovated building exposes the work of the past 60 years,...
- Jul 19, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Crystal
Crystalline green Conceived as a peephole to the future in Siemens’ sustainable cities initiative. Now City Hall for Greater London...
- Jul 12, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 One Embankment Place
Post-modern green A prominent post-modern building, once so leaky it couldn’t be sufficiently pressurised to get a reading. Tired,...
- Jul 5, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Cube Berlin
Futuristic green The building that thinks, Cube Berlin is the next level of smart. Its relief-patterned, reflective façade brings...
- Jun 28, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Brent Civic Centre
Civic green Serving 300,000+ residents, Brent Civic Centre, is the UK’s greenest local authority building. Community hub and heart, this...
- Jun 21, 2022
🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Powerhouse Brattørkaia
Net-positive green 63° north of the Earth’s equator – seasonal sunlight varies greatly – Powerhouse Brattørkaia explores solar potential...
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