Vauxhall
urbanest Vauxhall
5 Miles Street
London
SW8 1FZ
The construction of urbanest Vauxhall began in 2016 on a constrained site (a former car park) only 5 metres from the main railway lines taking 250,000 passengers into London Waterloo every day. It opened its doors to its first intake of residents in September 2018.
Located close to the US Embassy in Nine Elms, our Vauxhall community sits at the heart of this fast-growing and popular area of London and is ideally located for transport around town with Vauxhall train, tube and bus stations just a few minutes walk from the front door at Vauxhall Cross. The uber river taxi pier is also close by.
The development consists of 454 beds housed in a single block of 32 stories, providing stunning views up the river Thames from the rooftop and an enclosed terrace. urbanest Vauxhall was the first brick-clad building over 90 metres tall in the UK and features a distinctive bull-nosed edge on the south-western corner of the building, resembling the flatiron building in New York.
The student accommodation is supported with staff rooms, top floor social space and an open plan study lounge at level 1. The core was slipped, with the floors built around, standardised bathroom pods were deployed for efficiency and the building wrapped in a unitised façade system.
