New London Architecture
Paradise SE11
Built
Paradise champions well-being with light, air, timber, and green space. Open layouts and smart systems enable a healthy, low-energy, adaptable workplace by Old Paradise Gardens.
Paradise SE11 is a landmark workplace project in Lambeth that sets a new benchmark for regenerative urban design. Completed for Bywater Properties by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, it is the UK’s lowest embodied carbon mass timber office development. Located beside Old Paradise Gardens, the six-storey building is a bold demonstration of how circular economy principles, environmental performance, and social value can define the future of London’s workspaces.
Engineered for full disassembly, the building has a CLT and Glulam frame, delivering 35% less embodied carbon than the RIBA 2030 target and locking away 1,884 tonnes of CO2. Designed with a whole-life approach, every element has been optimised for reuse, from mechanically fixed structural connections to dry-fit façades.
Human wellbeing is central to the design. Generous floor heights, openable façades, exposed timber, and natural ventilation create a warm, daylight-filled working environment with strong biophilic connections to the gardens. The façade, a collaboration with local schoolchildren, reinterprets Lambeth’s terracotta heritage using self-cleaning ceramic tiles, combining beauty, durability, and community storytelling.
Internally, the flexible layout accommodates maker spaces at ground level and adaptable office floors above, future-proofed to meet evolving workplace demands.
Paradise SE11 is more than a sustainable building. It’s a replicable model for low-carbon, circular, human-centred office design that responds to the urgent demands of climate, equity, and urban resilience.
NLA Awards 2025
Supported by the Mayor of London, the NLA Awards celebrate all scale of projects, from community-led to large-scale mixed-use developments, both built and unbuilt, that contribute to the creation of a more sustainable, civilised, and egalitarian London.
Project information
Status
Built
Borough
Lambeth
Completion
2025
Team Credits
Architect
FCBS
Structural & Civil Engineer
Webb Yates
Fire Engineer
OFR
MEP & Thermal Engineer
Buro Happold
BREEAM / Well Consultant
Wallace Whittle
Façade Consultant
ARUP
Acoustics Consultant
Max Fordham / By Acoustics
Planning Consultant
RPS
Heritage Consultant
RPS & CgMs Heritage
Townscape
Turley
Rights of Light
Paragon
Arboriculturist
Paragon
Building Control
MLM / SWECO
Cost & Project Management
Quantem Consulting
Viability
ULL Property
Community Engagement
Soundings & MATT+FIONA
Main Contractor
Gilbert-Ash
Timber & Steel Frame
BK Hybrid Solutions
Concrete Slab & Cores
Summit Structures
Precast Stairs
Creagh Concrete Products
Piling
Rock & Alluvium
Façade Contractor
Façade Installation Services (FIS)
Façade Access Systems
Sayfa Systems
MEP
Stothers Building Engineering Services
Sprinkler System
COMPCO Fire Systems
Waterproofing
Rascor Engineering
Roof Systems
Green Roof Company
External Steelwork
Vision Fabrications
Fitted Furniture / Joinery
Furniture Group Manufacturing (FGM)
Speed Gates
EG Group
Internal Doors
Integrated Doorset Solutions (IDS)
Ironmongery
KCC Group
Lifts
Schindler
Cubicle & IPS Systems
Petal
Client
Bywater Properties
Last updated on
28/11/2025
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