🟩 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.

📍Location

SW1, London

🏢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

• Arcadis

• VOGT Landscape Architects

• 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.

🔗 Check it out https://www.lyncharchitects.com/projects/zig-zag-building-sw1/