The Black & White Building

Project Info

This landmark mass timber office complex sets a new standard for sustainable and innovative workspace architecture founded on low-carbon construction, circularity and natural materials.

Standing 17.8 metres above the Shoreditch streetscape on the site of a former timber-seasoning yard, The Black & White Building is the tallest engineered timber structure of its kind in central London.

With a hybrid engineered timber superstructure comprising beech LVL frame with CLT slabs and core, the seven-storey, 4,480 m2 building demonstrates that timber is not just a viable structural solution for office-building, but a preferable option for both performance and sustainability. The timber structure is expressed internally, celebrating the natural beauty of the material throughout the wide-span open workspaces.

Designed with circular-economy principles, modern methods of construction and pioneering materials, the building demonstrates the positive impact these can have on performance, sustainability and efficiency in construction.