Roots in the Sky – Blackfriars
Roots in the Sky – Blackfriars
Blackfriars Crown Court is being radically re-imagined into Roots in The Sky. The project will deliver 385k sq ft of work, wellness and community space. In addition, a 1.1-acre urban forest holding 100 trees, 10k plants, 1.3k tons of soil and a rooftop pool heated by waste energy.
Once finished it will be a place people are excited to leave home to go to work. This is a building that a global tech company would build for itself, not a developer speculatively. It achieved unanimous LBS planning committee approval with local residents speaking in favour of its development.
All that makes London great will be celebrated in the Roots in the Sky project. New and old are brought together with the 1960’s structure and facade supporting a new hybrid low-carbon CLT and steel structure. Pioneering construction will support 1.5m soil depths allowing tree species to grow naturally over their lifetime rather than suffer stunted lives in pots.
Aquascapes task on this project is to install a rooftop glass bottomed pool that can be viewed from the ground floor atrium.
Roots in the Sky – Blackfriars
Blackfriars Crown Court is being radically re-imagined into Roots in The Sky. The project will deliver 385k sq ft of work, wellness and community space. In addition, a 1.1-acre urban forest holding 100 trees, 10k plants, 1.3k tons of soil and a rooftop pool heated by waste energy.
Once finished it will be a place people are excited to leave home to go to work. This is a building that a global tech company would build for itself, not a developer speculatively. It achieved unanimous LBS planning committee approval with local residents speaking in favour of its development.
All that makes London great will be celebrated in the Roots in the Sky project. New and old are brought together with the 1960’s structure and facade supporting a new hybrid low-carbon CLT and steel structure. Pioneering construction will support 1.5m soil depths allowing tree species to grow naturally over their lifetime rather than suffer stunted lives in pots.
Aquascapes task on this project is to install a rooftop glass bottomed pool that can be viewed from the ground floor atrium.
