KLA have been shortlisted in a design competition to upgrade Bernie Spain Gardens on London’s South Bank. The competition, launched at the end of 2017, is run by the social enterprise owner and manager of the gardens, Coin Street Community Builders.
The brief is to create a public open green space of high quality and sustainability and focuses on the northern section of the gardens between Upper Ground and the River Thames. It includes requirements to upgrade paths and lawns, introduce integrated irrigation, and create year-round horticultural interest with sensory planting that attracts wildlife.We have proposed a series of spaces, transitioning from local gardens to public river frontage; The intimate scaled sunken garden is enhanced with richly planted borders; An open green space reclaims the eastern edge of the park, a ‘room on the river’; The northern edge is defined by a sedimentary plinth, a visual connection to the geology of the river.
2017–2018
South Bank, London
Client
Coin Street Community Builders
KLA have been shortlisted in a design competition to upgrade Bernie Spain Gardens on London’s South Bank. The competition, launched at the end of 2017, is run by the social enterprise owner and manager of the gardens, Coin Street Community Builders.
