Bridge House, Central London

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The Pritchard and Pritchard team were subcontracted by DDC Limited To undertake the installation of this magnificent roof garden in the heart of London.
Decades of experience in landscaping, waterproofing, green roofing, pedestal paving, planters and planting, makes Pritchard & Pritchard’s dedicated team the go-to landscaped podium infrastructure partner for the UK’s top architects, property developers and contractors.
A landscaped podium is a communal outdoor space, serving adjacent residential or commercial buildings.
Well-designed podiums become a new ground-level oasis, leaving users oblivious to the fact that beneath their feet are several floors of commercial or residential amenities or car-parking.
Pictured is London’s Barbican Centre, one of the world’s pioneering podium gardens first laid out in the 1970s. For the multi-award-winning refurbishment, Pritchard & Pritchard supplied and installed all the infrastructure for flower beds, including 1000 cubic metres of substrate. Read the Barbican case study
Landscaped podiums create recreational spaces for people living and working above street level.
Raised courtyards or courtyard podiums use a combination of hard and soft landscaping to deliver welcoming communal spaces, as with this beautiful example at Wimbledon Grounds.
P&P’s landscaped podium service includes sustainable drainage systems, waterproofing, paving, decking, seating, flower beds, raised planters and planting.
Podiums are usually intensively planted with a mix of plants that may include trees, shrubs, herbaceous and flowering plants, sometimes lawns, wild-flower meadows and water features.
Pedestal paving (slabs on adjustable pedestals) marries perfectly with ‘blue’ podium sustainable drainage roofing systems (SuDS) which help:
Pritchard and Pritchard’s paving team are the UK’s leading installers of pedestal paving and blue roof systems.
Like any ground-level garden, if left alone, nature will soon take over. Different types of podiums require different maintenance regimes. Pritchard & Pritchard recommends the following maintenance plans:
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The Pritchard and Pritchard team were subcontracted by DDC Limited To undertake the installation of this magnificent roof garden in the heart of London.
London’s largest blue roof. Exemplar storm-water-management roofing project Every roof in the development is blue and green (wildflower roofs) Half of the roofs are also…
The 650 square metre space is brought to life by the atmospheric planting by Pritchard & Pritchard.