🟩 GreenBricks Building of the Week 🟩 Arbor

Bankside green

Future-facing workspace in the heart of the UK’s first major fossil-fuel free mixed-use estate. Arbor rises above while restoring historic railway arches below.

📍Location

London, SE1

🏢Building Details

• Completed 2022, 223,000 sq. ft. of flexible workspace over 19 floors

• Dramatic ‘mega-frame’ steel design reflecting Bankside industrial heritage

• WiredScore Platinum + WELL ready-to-achieve Gold

👷🏾‍♀️Developer & Contractor

• Jay Squier – Development Director at Native Land

• Felicity Masefield – Development Executive at Native Land

• Mostyn Higgs – Site Manager at Multiplex

• Gary Gaughan – Project Lead at Multiplex

✍️Architects & Engineers

• PLP Architecture

• Michael Stiff – Founder at Stiff + Trevillion Architects

• Christian Tygoer – Technical Director at AKT II

• Jon Spencer-Hall – Partner at Core Five LLP

• Thomas Hinnerskov – Executive VP, South Europe, Middle-East & Africa at KONE

• Severfield

🌱Sustainability

• BREEAM Excellent + carbon zero

• Optimised design = 45% less CO2 in building’s operation = equivalent to 52 return flights from LDN > NYC every year

• Biodiverse green roof to encourage local wildlife and promote local ecology

• Smart metering monitors energy consumption in real time; building is also part of a fifth-generation energy-sharing network, reducing usage by 30%

🥦 Wellbeing

• Enhanced ventilation: fresh air up to 13.2 litres/ sec/ person = x3 higher than WELL standard

• 6m high windows provide exceptional natural light + dramatic, inspiring views

• Smart CCF façades, triple-glazing, and blinds automatically reduce solar heat gain for optimal working environment

• Spacious terraces on every other floor – with larger terrace on 19th floor for yoga and outdoor cinema screenings

• 330 cycle spaces + on-site bike maintenance + 28 showers

🎈Bonus feature

Arbor forms part of the wider 5-acre Bankside Yards development, redefining and reconnecting the Thames’ South Bank + Bankside for the first time in 150 years. A “secret” row of 14 Victorian railway arches built in 1864 – previously sealed from the public – forms the centrepiece of this hypermixed riverside destination.

🔗 Check it out https://arbor.banksideyards.com/