A timber kiosk with cascading greenery and garden on the Low Line, London Bridge

Sanchez Benton Architects will present their Holyrood Street kiosk and garden, now known as Low Line Louie.

This ten year meanwhile project adjoining a leftover bin yard on a flank wall owned by Southwark Council recently won a Civic Society Award for Architecture. Architects and partners including the Council and Team London Bridge will present how the kiosk forms part of a wider public realm strategy for Holyrood Street, an emerging destination on the Low Line which runs alongside the mighty Victorian railway viaduct.

The kiosk is at once joyous and functional. Taking cue from continental street kiosks, the entirely demountable scarlet timber building is actually a giant planter with a funky café/bar at ground level and stepped terraces of native herbs, perennials and climbers crowning it. Luckily we’ll finish in time for happy hour cocktails!

For more about the Low Line visit https://www.lowline.london/

45 minutes time slots available on June 14:

• 17:00pm - 17:45pm

• 18:00pm - 18:45pm

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