The Black and White Building

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Commercial · Mass Timber Office · Temperate · 2023

A 10-storey mass timber office in Shoreditch built entirely from cross-laminated and glulam timber, achieving one of the highest structural timber-to-gross-floor-area ratios in the UK at the time of completion. The building sequesters more carbon in its structure than was emitted during construction.

Innovation highlights

  • mass timber superstructure to 10 storeys
  • net-negative embodied carbon at structural frame
  • prefabricated CLT floor cassettes
  • exposed timber interior for biophilic effect
  • timber replaces concrete and steel throughout
Client / Developer
Soho House Group / CO-RE
Architect
Waugh Thistleton Architects
Engineer
Arup
Type
Mass Timber Office

#mass timber #CLT #low carbon #embodied carbon #Shoreditch #biophilic

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