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Penoyre & Prasad architects’ The Bloom demonstrates a new radical approach to the sharing and standardisation of space between NHS and Local Authority. Designed to meet the Code for Sustainable Homes Level 4 rating, the mixed use development in White City provides 170 one, two and three bedroom private apartments across four cores above basement car-parking, retail units and 3,400m² of primary healthcare and social services facilities.
The interesting building provides a grand civic gateway to Wormholt Park which in turn provides vistas from the generous centralised waiting areas within the health centre. Both the rigorous modularity of the building plan and the standardisation of the glazed cladding system allowed the swift erection of the building and thus sale of the private units, which cross-fund the development of these public services.
Source: Penoyre & Prasad architects