The Liberty of Southwark is a mixed-use office and residential development situated just behind Borough Market bound by historic warehouse buildings, a Network Rail Viaduct/Bridge and Crossbones Graveyard. The site itself is of high archaeological interest with its proximity to the Victorian mass graveyard and previous archaeological digs within the site uncovering rare Roman remains of high archaeological importance. Beneath the site, east and west bound Jubilee line LUL assets pass directly under. In 2022, during the archaeological enabling works, the archaeological enabling works uncovered the largest Roman mosaic for over 50 years.
The Office building consists of a nine-storey building with a central reinforced concrete (RC) stability core linking and serving the two. RC columns support typically 250mm thick post-tensioned (PT) slabs. The column layout was coordinated with the architects to minimise the transfer structures required at high levels, where the building steps back.
To the south of the office building is a residential building, four to eight storeys high with RC blade column vertical structure supporting 200mm thick PT flat slabs. A three-storey workspace building sits to the south of the residential building and it is built using Glulam and Cross Laminated Timber