The building will be built in the City of London, between Farringdon and Moorgate
Citicape House , thus has been baptized the one who will be the greenest hotel in London and the largest garden wall in Europe , twice the size of its nearest competitor, the National Grid Headquarters.
Designed by British studio architects Sheppard Robson for Dominvs Group , a company that develops and operates hotels in key cities of the United Kingdom This building will have more than 400,000 plants decorating its façade.
The building is expected to sequester more than eight tons of carbon annually
As well as adding a bit of color to the gray urban landscape of the London area in which it will be located, on the Cultural Mile, near the Holborn Viaduct, this architectural work will absorb nothing more and nothing less than eight tons of pollution a year.
It will also help improve air quality, producing six tons of oxygen , and will reduce the local temperature between three and five degrees centigrade. In this way, Citicape House will prove that the architecture can help control climate change.
Construction will be completed (approximately) within four years
Jay Ahluwalia, Director of Dominvs Group said: "We are incredibly proud of our proposals for the regeneration of the Smithfield area. After our successful opening of The Dixons at Tower Bridge and the recent opening of Creed Court (St. Pauls), we look forward to continuing to offer developments of the highest quality in downtown London ".
The goal is to create a five-star hotel with capacity for 382 guests. In its eleven floors we will find a work space of about 3,700 square meters, a sky-bar with a roof garden -where wild flowers will grow-, rooms for meetings and events, spa and a restaurant.
Threatened wildflowers will grow on the eleventh floor
“The work has not started yet, as the project still needs to obtain a building permit. Therefore, as it is in the early stages, it is difficult to give this work an exact completion date ”, he tells us Peter Dye, Director of Marketing and Communication at Sheppard Robson Architects . Despite this, They estimate that it will open in 2024.