See the Final Presentations 2003

"Shell and Core" by Eva Young, exploring the differing optimal relationships between shell and core for the differing office and residential function.  

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?" - Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto, 1855

The subject for this project is a mixed-use tower, combining prestigious office headquarters with residential apartments and retail-leisure space in one building. The site is 110 Bishopsgate, currently being developed by the Heron Corporation and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates for a real tall building to be completed in 2011. As such then, both the site and the programmatic brief for this project are real and high profile. 

The project included a 3-day fieldtrip to London to study site and precedents including visits to Tower 42, Canary Wharf, Kohn Pederson Fox Studios and a construction tour of the Swiss Re Tower.

The Heron Tower final projects incorporate a wide range of design agendas; these include a tower inspired by wind, a tower with a huge slice through its mass allowing light to penetrate through to the street below, and designs inspired by vertical villages, prefabrication and hydroponics.