Client: Gladedale Developments |
Architect: Jestico Whiles |
Contractor: Laing O’Rourke |
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Project: Royal Quay, Furlong City, London
Furlong City is a mixed residential development, part of a £100 million regeneration project involving nine residential blocks with plazas, cafes and restaurants. Hubbard have designed and manufactured the balconies that make the most of the riverside views from the apartments and increase the desirability of the penthouses, together with staircases, balustrade and privacy screens.
What we did: The Results
The focal point of the design is provided by three stunning blocks of apartments and penthouses whose front elevations are shaped like the hulls of ocean liners seemingly moored in the adjacent marina which lap at their bows. Balconies on the river side of the blocks project out over the water to add to the experience of living by the marina.
Concrete balconies are cloaked with a pressed steel channel which supports balustrades with glass infill and stainless steel handrail. This design allows rapid and efficient installation of balconies at each phase of construction. A total of 210 balconies have been supplied on the two phases of construction completed up to 2007.
Elsewhere on the site, Hubbard have also supplied privacy screens, bespoke penthouse staircases, balustrades and wall rails to the core stairs and several hundreds of metres of balustrade to the podium edge and riverside.