The Heron
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 9BJ
Visitor Information
Architect: RHWL and David Walker Architects
Built: expected 2013
Developer: Heron International
The Square Mile's newest residential tower is much anticipated by those after top-of-the-range City living. The façade of the slender 36-floor residential tower will appear as a large scale mosaic, featuring panels of clear, opaque black and dark grey glass and silver anodised aluminium, outlined with polished stainless steel. The positioning of supporting columns will allow for fully glazed corners to the apartments, providing excellent views of the capital through floor-to-ceiling windows.
Lucky residents will have access to a landscaped roof garden and membership of a private club which will include a screening room, a private dining / meeting room with conferencing and business facilities and a gym. The structure will comprise a reinforced concrete frame with post-tensioned concrete floor slabs and reinforced concrete columns on piled foundations. The silicone glazed curtain wall system will be constructed in anodised finish aluminium extrusions with solar controlled double glazed units.
The lower floors of The Heron will house new, state-of-the-art facilities for the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. There will be a 608-seat concert hall and a 227-seat theatre and studio theatre.
The Heron has been designed to adhere to the GLA’s aspirations to make London a low carbon city and, as far as possible, the development will utilise the Citigen combined heat and power system.
Not to be confused with the Heron Tower on Bishopsgate.