Client: Wimpey Homes |
Architect: Broadway Malyan |
Contractor: Laing O’Rourke |
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Project: The Water Gardens, Rotherhithe, London
Completed in 2007, The Water Gardens is a mixed housing development consisting of 242 apartments in six blocks of varying height between six and nine stories. Each of the apartments has a projecting balcony to provide additional recreation space. Hubbard supplied balconies, balustrades and privacy screens, together with balustrade and handrail to core stairs, courtyard gates and rails.
What we did: The Results
The five blocks for private sale and one for social housing are built around a landscaped and tree-lined water garden/courtyard
The concrete balconies are cloaked with pressed steel channel which supports an integral mild steel balustrade with glass infill and a stainless steel handrail. This is a well proven Hubbard design similar to that used on the Furlong City Development which allows architects and developers to achieve large volumes of balconies to a high standard while containing design and manufacturing costs.
In addition to supplying and fitting all balconies and privacy screens, Hubbard also supplied the balustrade and handrail to core stairs and terrace balustrades fixed to concrete upstands. Other metalwork by Hubbard on site included courtyard gates, railing and grilles as well as sundry metalwork items such as ladders and cycle storage racks.