🟩 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 workplace and public realm are deconstructed.

📍Location

King’s Cross, London

🏢Building Details

• 250,000 sq. ft., 11-storeys, mixed-use

• Completed 2017

• Winner of Camden Design Awards 2022 – Major Projects Category

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Nick Searl – Joint Managing Partner of Argent LLP

• Sam Williams – Development Manager @ Argent LLP

• Colin Lovatt – Major Projects @ Kier Construction

✍️Architects & Engineers

• Joe Morris – Founding Director @ Morris+Company

• Ah-Ra Kim – Former Associate @ Morris+Company

• Stuart Curran – Principal Director @ Weedon Architects

• Shankar Kothapuram – Associate @ Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd

• Naveen Sandhu – Specification Manager @ AkzoNobel

• AKT II

• Sweco

🌱Sustainability

• BREEAM Outstanding + EPC B

• Passive design measures: high levels of insulation + air tightness in external envelope; high levels of thermal mass through exposed concrete reduces mechanical cooling load

• Optimal proportion of glazing + solid panels within façade to minimise heat gains – with high level of solar gain control through projecting façade fins

• Floorplate adaptability: “soft spots” made of plywood + aluminium panels can be removed and reinstated as per tenant requirement

• Multi-Service Chilled Beam technology = most energy efficient HVAC solution with long life expectancy + minimal maintenance

🥦 Wellbeing

• Impressive 7m high public atrium = barriers between workplace + public realm dissolved; access uniquely democratic being only building in the area where everyone comes through the same entrance

• Home to an Everyman Cinema, Happy Face Pizza + basement Supermax cocktail bar = work social sorted

• Roof terraces + access to external space from every floor

• Spin-fitness studio + basement ‘cycle spa’ with 260 bike spaces, changing rooms, showers

🎈Bonus feature

The striking atrium features ‘Zanzibar’ by Céline Condorelli – a sculpture functioning as indoor/outdoor public furniture. It combines multi-layered shapes with large planters hosting lush vegetation. A modern, tropical setting for many a social gathering.

🔗 Check it out https://morrisand.company/work/r7