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Jubilee Gardens

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Jubilee Gardens

A biodiverse, climate-resilient and low-maintenance garden design which increases accessibility, permeability and safety within the City Cluster offering an increased amenity, play and quiet seating areas; utilising circular-economy and on-site reuse for all architectural and surface elements.

Client
City of London Corporation
Location
Size
425 m2
Project dates
Design: May 2021 - October 2022 Construction: December 2023 - ongoing
Services provided
Landscape Concept, Developed & Technical Design (RIBA Stage 2-4) Client's Design Guardian (RIBA Stage 5-6)
Design team

  • Tom Massey (Horticulture & Planting Design)

  • Tim O’Hare Associates (Soil Consultancy)

  • WebbYates (Structural Design)

  • Dr Tijana Blanusa, RHS (Horticultural Science)

Press links

https://news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/jubilee-gardens-transformation-begins/

Project type
Landscape & Public RealmRefit & Reuse
Use type
Health & WellbeingLeisure & Recreation

Studio Weave were appointed to redesign Jubilee Gardens, following successful collaborations on our Finsbury Circus Gardens and Bank Junction Improvements projects. The project site - a pocket garden on Houndsditch, between Liverpool Street Station and the City Cluster – sits on top of an active subterranean UKPN power station, and was one identified ‘in need of climate resilience’ in the Square Mile. Our scheme establishes a new benchmark for climate responsive design in the city, maximising opportunities to reduce embodied and operational resource usage.

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A detailed survey of the existing garden – characterised by a limestone-clad masonry perimeter wall enclosing a formal grid limestone pathways between brown brick raised planters – identified opportunities to improve the character by dismantling existing elements and reconfiguring them. On-site modifications include: cutting the perimeter wall down to a datum allowing views between interior and exterior; replacing the raised planters with in-ground planting which is less enclosing and more visible; reshaping the limestone pathways as more varied meandering routes and quiet seating areas; and reusing site-won bricks and coping stones to assemble habitat piles drilled with holes for bees and invertebrates.

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