An eye-catching 12-storey tower is transforming the city centre's skyline, built and joined onto the former Woolworths store, 'stepping up' the building away from Oxford Street to the rear at Picton Yard.
The project is set to be complete in July, with works now around 70% finished. It will house roughly 120 residents, 350 people working in the commercial office spaces, plus ground floor businesses, an exhibition space, and education zone.
The development will feature a vertical urban farm, a five-storey green house which will produce crops and vegetables, a display aquarium, and a 'biophilic walkway'. It will use alternative energy sources, such as smart devices to monitor and help understand consumption levels and ecological footprint, communal residential spaces at rooftops and greenhouses, and the incorporation of greenery on balconies, and art throughout the building.
The rooftop garden foundations on level six and seven are laid, as well as a four-storey glass house overlooking the city which will house a hydroponic growing system and a relaxing winter garden meeting space. Each apartment has a balcony fitted with a grow box to enable residents to create their own pocket of greenery, or grow their own produce, alongside having access to the rooftop gardens.
Source: uk.news.yahoo.com