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    Southwark Kick Back Hanging Garden Towers Again

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    Post by Mr007 Sat Nov 27, 2010 2:55 pm

    Southwark Kick Back Hanging Garden Towers Again

    Published on 08-10-2008 by Skyscrapernews.com
    A revised planning application by Allies and Morrison to build a new home for the Central School of Ballet plus student housing have been refused by Southwark Council regardless of a recommendation from the council's planning office to approve it.

    Developer Hive Student Residences previously had plans to build two new residential towers of student accommodation reaching 12 and 14 storeys high that shared a combined podium but these were scaled down to 12 and 10 storeys following concerns about their height with interior accommodation reduced from 335 to 291 rooms.

    At the same time, the design concept of having the buildings work as hanging gardens had been diluted in an attempt to make them more sensible and less exciting with the very visible loss of living walls of greenery on the southern sides.

    Citing the height, they were rejected again by the council who also took issue to the design which features two blocks with a boxy shape expressed by an external frame. Dominating the cladding is an almost grill-like collection of horizontal wooden louvres with spaces for windows punctuating it.

    Despite the warmth of the shades of wood, one councillor failed to be won over by the aesthetic which he compared to a couple of bricks of wheatabix, a famous breakfast cereal with a strong resemblance to cardboard.

    Ironincally the original uncompromised design had much less wooden detail on it with only a sparse grid pattern expressing the shape and very visible glazing behind the external frames of the buildings.

    Having been knocked back now for a second time, it's clear that Southwark council simply don't like the design and perhaps the architects should try and dream up something completely new instead of just reducing the height of what they have proposed.

    It's also apparent that due to the location of Hatfields Green on the other side of the road and the vocal attempts by some local residents to turn it into a nice space, there are fears by many that this will be overshadowed and anything tall on this site will raise the same howls of objections.

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