Edge / Mitsui Fudosan

Edge Shoreditch is an office-led mixed-use development ranging in height from 5-20 storeys. Located in the London Borough of Hackney, the building offers the opportunity to set a new standard for offices in London and beyond, to achieve the highest sustainability levels, improve the health and wellbeing of the building users, and create and foster a new diverse and inclusive community. The stepped building will provide market-leading, flexible workspaces complemented by internal break spaces and generous roof terraces providing access to greenery and biodiversity, high levels of natural light and fresh air. These features will enhance the health, wellbeing and productivity of occupants and encourage interaction and connectivity throughout the building. The flexible floorplates and generous ceiling heights will cater for a range of tenants and ensure the schemes longevity and adaptability. Five key objectives have been identified for the project, which have served as touchstones for its design development: Distinctive Appearance The building will have a strong identity that distinctly reflects its local South Shoreditch context. This includes warehouse inspired façade grids, a refined material palette combining brick and reconstituted stone, and key details such as the corners, parapets, entrances, and frontages. Colours, textures, bonds and patterns within the unique façade design will subtly enhance the building’s appearance within the local heritage context. Creating Connections An internal street, located at the heart of the ground floor, provides access to the main reception and offers informal, flexible workspace breakout areas as well as internal links to the ground floor retail units and cycle facilities. This internal street is seen as a vibrant social and amenity-focused space that also provides a pedestrian route across the site. The street also plays a key role in integrating the affordable workspace, which is considered an essential part of the building’s office ecosystem, into the building. Terrace Amenity All occupants within the building will have access to external private and communal amenity spaces, that also provide the opportunity for a significant uplift in planting and biodiversity across the site. Interlocking terraces are introduced as the building rises in height from west to east that provide an external space to every level bordered by soft landscaping to enhance occupants’ access to nature within the city. Sustainable Ambitions The project has the highest ambitions for sustainable design, health and wellbeing. The building will target BREEAM Outstanding, WELL Platinum and NABERS ratings as well as significantly reduce embodied and operational carbon through the refinement of key building components including optimisation of the facades, superstructure and substructure; low water usage and harvesting; and all-electric and highly efficient building services. Flexible Workspace The office floorplans will be subdivisible, reconfigurable and, in combination with the generous ceiling heights, will cater for a range of tenants demands and ensure longevity of the proposed scheme. They will also be complemented by internal and external breakout spaces, high levels of natural light and fresh air, and communal amenity spaces.