Old Paradise Street

Planning Granted

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Old Paradise Street will transform disused former coffee roastery site into a progressive and sustainable workplace building which can become an exemplar for low carbon and sustainable building design

Paradise will replace the disused Costa Coffee roastery on Old Paradise Street and transform a neglected and disused site into 60,000sqft of net carbon zero work and maker space.

Paradise will be a landmark timber-framed building - a cross-laminated timber structure and an extruded terracotta façade and the proposals are on target for almost 60 years of a negative carbon footprint. The project looks to set new benchmarks environmentally friendly, low carbon construction as well as promoting health and wellbeing for its future occupiers.

Winner in the WORKING category

Paradise will transform a neglected and disused site into a forward-looking sustainable office building which might become a test case for promoting awareness around the carbon impact of buildings.

The Old Paradise Street project will create a new workplace building on the site of the former Costa Roastery, which sits in a prominent location opposite Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery and adjacent to the historic green space of Old Paradise Gardens - part of the Lambeth Palace Conservation Area. The aim of the project is to create an exemplar low carbon and highly sustainable building that relates strongly to its context and its rich cultural heritage. It aims to set new benchmarks of environmentally friendly, low carbon construction whilst promoting occupiers’ health and wellbeing.

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Paradise will replace the disused Costa Coffee roastery on Old Paradise Street and transform a neglected and disused site into 60,000 sq ft of net carbon zero work and maker space. Paradise will be a landmark timber-framed building — a cross-laminated timber structure and an extruded terracotta facade. Timber is a truly renewable material that sequesters carbon as it grows, reducing the embodied carbon of the building. The proposals are on target for almost 60 years of a negative carbon footprint. The project looks to set new benchmarks: environmentally friendly, low carbon construction as well as promoting health and wellbeing for its future occupiers.

Project information

Status

Planning Granted

Borough

Lambeth

Size

8350 sq m

Completion

December 2021

Location

5 Old Paradise St, London SE11 6AX, UK

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