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Guys Approches at Guy’s Hospital – London, U.K.

Posted in Built by Eleanor Reynolds on April 20, 2011

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Building: Guys Approches at Guy’s Hospital
Location: London, UK (by London Bridge)
Completed: 2007
Architect: Heatherwick Studio (Thomas Heatherwick)

AE Interest: tiled cladding system wrapping around the boiler house fabricated from high grade stainless steel frames, with braid woven through as the “warp”

The building was built on a raft that allows it to sit above the soft clay in a more efficient manner than traditional foundation piles.
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