Buckingham Green

London, United Kingdom | 2019

Gustafson Porter + Bowman’s landscape design for Buckingham Green creates a new, high-quality public realm that enhances the buildings and immediate area that surround it. The irregular placement of buildings on the site creates jaunted angles and a varied assembly of styles and palettes that resemble the work of the early 20th century artist, Kazimir Malevich.

To unify the composition of new and existing buildings, we have used abstract shapes in contrasting coloured stone, giving the illusion of subtle movement. High-quality materials have been selected including bush-hammered ‘Caesar white’ granite around the edge of The Tower and honed black ‘Tritanial’ granite for the central element. A single Gingko biloba tree between the two buildings anchors the scheme.

Additionally, two roof terraces on The Caxton provide office workers with views out to Westminster Abbey and central London. Long linear benches, clad with ‘Kirkstone Brathay’ black slate (L6) and powder-coated steel (L4), act as raised planters, filled with multi-stemmed birch trees and white, blue and purple-flowering woodland shrubs.