The building provides a striking expression to the West edge of Cubitt Square, whilst maintaining urban continuity to Canal Reach to the West of the development, via its Southern front along Keskidee Way.
The facades are animated by slide-on prefabricated steel balconies of varying sizes, with aluminium and GRC soffits. The balconies are fixed to stubs cast into the precast concrete panels, an innovative solution eliminating the thermal bridge and challenging waterproofing details issues commonly associated with a traditional solution of stub fixings in the slab.
FMDC’s involvement in the project started at early design stages, and through to completion in a Client Monitoring Team capacity to Argent during the construction stages, with Laing O’Rourke as Main Contractor.