🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 YY London

Wharf green

Dating back to 1991, the former home of Thomas Reuters and one of Canary Wharf’s first steel-framed blocks, YY London has now been comprehensively reimagined.

📍Location

Canary Wharf, E14

🏢Building Details

• Comprehensive refurb: addition of 3 new floors + 25% extra NIA

• 415,000 sq ft., 14 floors

• Completed 2023

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Kier Bothwell – Associate Partner @ Quadrant

• Rowan Jenkins – Partner @ Quadrant

• Oaktree

• Victoria Asset Management

• Skanska

✍️Architects & Engineers

• Oliver Bayliss – Managing Director @ Buckley Gray Yeoman

• Paul White – Founding Director @ Buckley Gray Yeoman

• Adam Whitlock Wood – Associate Director @ Buckley Gray Yeoman

• Matthew King – Associate Director @ Hilson Moran

• Gavin Rogers – Project Manager @ Severfield

🌱Sustainability

• BREEAM Outstanding + WiredScore Platinum + EPC B

• Retained existing structure and pile foundations = 10,260 tonnes CO2 saved = 7,600 flights to Sydney

• 25% extra floorspace created through infilling an existing atrium and increasing building’s massing

• 100% electric energy strategy: smart meter systems + central heat pumps and heat recovery = reduced overall energy demand by 62%

• High-performance façade: with distinctive Y shaped design that lends the project its name

🥦 Wellbeing

• Triple-height reception: with public seating, bars, and fine dining restaurant providing a vibrant heart

• Outside space on almost every floor – plus sweeping 1,300 sq ft rooftop terrace available for event hire and exercise classes

• Floor-to-ceiling glazing increases natural light to all floors: some widows over 5m high

• Cycle facilities: luxurious changing rooms, 300 lockers, 30 showers, 300 secure spaces

🎈Bonus feature

With the opening line, “the problem with straight lines is they don’t know how to bend” – Director Isaac Holland has created this intriguing animation for this office-redefining building.

🔗 Check it out https://www.bgy.co.uk/commissions/yy-london/