🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 The Kensington Building
- GreenBricks_
- Jun 6, 2023
- 2 min read
Timeless green
Once a bleak 4-storey 1970s block, today remodelled into a timeless 6-storey mixed-used destination. Seamlessly blending into Kensington’s historic street charm.
📍Location
🏢Building Details
Completed March 2022
94,630 sq ft workspace + 34,000 sq ft ground floor retail
Winner BCO 2023 Best Refurbished / Recycled Workplace
👷🏾♀️Developer & Contractor
Tom Smithers – Property Director @ AshbyCapital
Geoffrey Shaw – Founder & CEO @ Janson Urban
✍️Architects & Engineers
Fred Pilbrow – Founder Partner @ Pilbrow & Partners
Tal Ben-Amar – Founder Partner @ Pilbrow & Partners
Gareth Wilkins – Partner @ Pilbrow & Partners
Darren Connolly – Director, Building Services @ WSP in the UK
Guy Wellings – Head of London Structures @ WSP in the UK
Etienne Sharp – Associate Director @ MoreySmith
🌱Sustainability
BREEAM Excellent + EPC B + WiredScore Platinum
Re-purposing existing frame reduced embodied carbon by 31% – while overall gross area was increased by 45%
100% of total excavation waste diverted from landfill
100% of energy from renewable sources: rooftop PV system + highly efficient heat recovery units
Restores the historic street line with handmade Petersen bricks and Portland stone façades, sensitive to the neighbourhood
🥦 Wellbeing
WELL Standard Gold
3 large outdoor terraces totalling 12,329 sq ft – variety of spaces landscaped for meetings, socials + fitness classes
165 cycle spaces, bicycle repair station, luxury changing rooms with towel service + hair straighteners
Ceiling height up to 5m fill spaces with natural light + sense of openness
Remodelling of the building provides improved connectivity with Kensington High Street tube station, via lively new Wrights retail arcade
🎈Bonus feature
Suspended from the reception ceiling, Sphere 14 by Lesley Hilling – an intriguing “memory box” of salvaged trinkets. Piano keys, wood from skips, a tube of Habana cigars, her father’s saw – jigsawed and layered with obsessive joinery. Lesley is an artist who hoards, while showing the endless possibilities of reuse in art as in architecture.
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