🟩 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 home to grow.

📍Location

Clerkenwell, EC1

🏢Building Details

• 145,000 sq ft of work, retail + amenity space

• Completed 2021

• 7 floors

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Gabriela Guizzo – Former Project Director @ HB Reavis

• Wei J. – Former Development Manager @ HB Reavis

• Joe M. – Former Construction Director (UK) @ HB Reavis

• Ian Farmer – Former Head of Design (Construction) @ HB Reavis

✍️Architects & Engineers

• Festus Moffat – Director @ John Robertson Architects

• David Vanderson – Principal Director @ Weedon Architects

• Stuart Curran – Principal Director @ Weedon Architects

• Kartik Amrania – Head of Building Sustainability Department @ Sweco

• Diaa Bahopia – Senior Sustainability Consultant @ Sweco

• Buro Happold

🌱Sustainability

• 1st UK commercial building to achieve BREEAM Outstanding + WELL Platinum (Core & Shell) + WiredScore Platinum

• EPC A rating for base build

• Future-proof floorplate flexibility: soft spots built into every floor provide ability to add interlinking staircases throughout

• All energy aims to be net zero carbon through partnerships with Citigen + E.ON – UK’s largest supplier of renewable electricity

• On-site energy generation from solar panels: 3.17 kWh/m2

🥦 Wellbeing

• Approx. 11% of the building comprises landscaped terraces (15,400 sq ft) = one of the highest office-to-terrace ratios in London

• Workout in-house: 1,200 sq ft multi-function basement fitness studio with bespoke classes – no membership fees for employees

• 248 bike spaces, 20 showers, 204 lockers + 4 bookable Bromptons

• ‘Ready to Work’ 1st floor flexible space plan: everything taken care for, from design & fit out, Wi-Fi, cleaning, and dedicated workspace manager

🎈Bonus feature

A big challenge was designing a building integrated with the new Farringdon West station – while both were built simultaneously. The architects nailed it by working closely with Crossrail’s engineering team – a collab that took place over 8 years and involved many an intensive workshop.

🔗 Check it out https://www.jra.co.uk/projects/workplace-new-build/farringdon-west-crossrail-oversite-development-london-ec1/