ThermaCool Panels used in building shortlisted for RIBA Award

ThermaCool Panels used in building shortlisted for RIBA award.

Two Mole Architects buildings have recently been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA London Awards featuring our ThermaCool Panels.

The two buildings are part of the Design District ; a new pedestrian quarter for creative industries on the Greenwich peninsula. Mole’s two buildings are intentionally different from each other; one compact and angular with a dichroic cladding, the other Corten-clad and stacked like a ziggurat. Internally they share the same qualities; something of the feel of an old warehouse, with exposed beams and wooden ceilings which give warmth and character.

Of the 16 new buildings that make up the district Mole’s buildings are unique in being built with timber structures. Both buildings are designed to limit energy consumption, with consideration to both embodied energy use during construction. Energy in-use is limited by phase-change material linings, and external blinds preventing overheating.