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Back in their native Netherlands, EDGE has set new standards for sustainable buildings, and along with embracing intelligence built into the backbone of their buildings and wellbeing at the very heart of what they do, EDGE London Bridge will bring these winning ingredients to their latest project.
This is EDGE Technology’s first outing into the UK and London development arena and the emerging design for this tower will demonstrate they mean to make an impact.
The building, designed by Pilbrow & Partners, is a new office tower directly adjacent to London Bridge station, and being in a cluster of key new projects along St. Thomas’s street, forming a link between the vibrant station area and more historical Bermondsey and the renowned Bermondsey mile. The design is extremely generous in the amount of public realm that will be created as part of the scheme on this relatively compact site. Part of this is the open building frontage and extensive planting, as well as the new public space within the scheme.
The architectural and structural hierarchy of the project is expressed in the sets of four floors per stack that are linked by expressive K-bracing in the north and south elevations. Being an exposed structure, we have carried out very detailed bioclimatic and thermal assessments to understand the resulting movements of the building seasonally and daily. The lowest stack of space is the ‘Village’ which is dedicated to the building entrance and affordable office workspace.
True to EDGE’s DNA, this part of the structure comprises of timber with glulam beams and CLT floors inter-woven at various points and setbacks to the four-storey tall ‘Village’ columns, that support the table above and the remainder of the office space within the tower. The typical office floors comprise of a PT flat slab which allows EDGE’s bespoke climate island ceilings along with in-floor air to be the environmental system. Each office floor has its own ‘play zone’ which comprises of a timber section of floor adjacent to the northern terrace. The timber panels are designed to be demountable so that tenants can have large double-height opening overlooking London or use for interconnecting stairs.
The EDGE London Bridge project is scheduled to achieve both BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ as well as WELL ‘Platinum’ rating for the new build office and is believed to become one of the most sustainable operational office buildings in London when completed. The facade, designed by Pilbrow & Partners in collaboration with AKT II, takes inspiration from local architecture, with glazed terracotta and steel bracing. It also contributes to the sustainability of the building, harmonising internal daylight and shading as well as accommodating solar panels.
2025 CTBUH Award of Excellence – Innovation Award (foundation monitoring)
