Gardens Illustrated Magazine

CITY HEIGHTS

The brief

Perched a vertiginous six storeys in the air, the 450-square-metre roof garden at 25 Cannon Street sits on top of a mixed-occupancy office building in the City of London, adjacent to St Paul's Cathedral, and presented Tom Stuart-Smith Studio with a unique set of challenges.

"Our client was the owner of the building and during the design stages we didn't know exactly who would be using the space or what they would require from it,” says project lead designer Shankar Kothapuram. “The client simply requested a flexible space that would enhance the lives of

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