Holyrood Street Kiosk and vertical garden

This ten year meanwhile project adjoining a leftover bin yard on a flank wall owned by Southwark Council recently received a Civic Society Award. The kiosk forms part of a wider public realm strategy for Holyrood Street, an emerging destination on the ‘Low Line’ which runs alongside the mighty Victorian railway viaduct.

The kiosk is at once joyous and functional. Taking cue from continental street kiosks, the entirely demountable scarlet timber building is actually a giant planter with a funky café/bar at ground level and stepped terraces of native herbs, perennials and climbers crowning it.

It joins a number of Low Line 'commons'; green spaces managed along the Low Line for public use with planting to encourage biodiversity.