Crossrail Place Roof Garden
Park · Canary Wharf, England
The Crossrail Place Roof Garden sits directly above the Elizabeth line platforms at Canary Wharf station, under a timber lattice roof. It is free to visit and open daily to the public until 9pm or sunset in summer. The operator states that Crossrail Place 'sits almost exactly on the Meridian line and the planting is arranged according to which hemisphere they are from with Asian plants such as bamboos to the east, and plants such as ferns from the Americas to the west'.
History
Crossrail Place opened on 1 May 2015, built in the water of the North Dock of the West India Docks. Foster + Partners designed it, with Adamson Associates as executive architect and Arup as engineer. It won Best Urban Regeneration Project at the 2016 MIPIM awards and first prize for Innovative Garden Design at the 2017 European Garden Awards.
Visit
Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HD
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