Angled green
Helping Victoria Street get its groove back, a building that’s thoughtful, flexible, and created with people in mind.
📍Location
🏢Building Details
Completed 2015
12 storeys – 242,000 sq ft (office + ground floor retail)
Winner of Best Office Building at the World Architecture Festival 2016
👷🏾♀️Developer & Contractor
Neil Pennell – Head of Design Innovation & Property Solutions @ Landsec
Vicki Greenwood – Former Construction Manager @ Lendlease
✍️Architects & Engineers
Patrick Lynch – Founding Director @ Lynch Architects Ltd
Claudia Lynch – Director @ Lynch Architects Ltd
Rachel Elliott – Associate Director @ Lynch Architects Ltd
David Evans – Director @ Lynch Architects Ltd
Mike Hitchens – Director @ Pell Frischmann
Alistair McAuley – Owner @ Timorous Beasties
🌱Sustainability
BREEAM Excellent + EPC B
High-performing building envelope with solar shading fins on façade = less energy needed to cool the building
Shared heating + cooling solution with neighbouring Kings Gate building: energy can be exported via underground pipework and heat exchanger, minimising demand + improving efficiency by 20%
Pipework installed and ready for future connection to district heating network
Roof mounted PV panels + LED lights + recycled rainwater harvesting
🥦 Wellbeing
Spacious, flexible floor-plates with floor-to-ceiling height of over 3.3m = ample natural light
Façade openings for natural ventilation
187 cycle parking spaces, 16 showers, high-grade changing facilities
7 floors have their own steeped outdoor terraces – with vistas of Westminster Cathedral + London’s rooftops
🎈Bonus feature
The architects’ previous largest project had a budget of under £300,000 and was burned down in an arson attack 3 months after completion. Landsec’s decision to take a chance and invest in the practice – with only handful of employees – with a £338 million project was admirable and astonishing. And paid off.
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