UK architecture studio Foster + Partners has been granted planning approval for office and residential development 18 Blackfriars Road, which the studio claims will be net-zero carbon.
Located on a two-acre brownfield site in London's Bankside, 18 Blackfriars Road will contain two residential blocks and a 45-storey office skyscraper.
Foster + Partners claimed the project would have the lowest whole-life carbon of any London high-rise development when it submitted its application, which has recently been approved by Southwark Council.

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"[18 Blackfriars Road] will feature London's lowest whole-life carbon high-rise, which also aims to be the first to achieve the WELL Community Gold rating," said Foster + Partners head of studio Nigel Dancey. "We are incredibly proud to be part of this pioneering vision for Southwark."
Designed in collaboration with developers Hines and Lipton Rogers, Foster + Partners claims the development will be 100 per cent electric and net zero carbon in operation.
18 Blackfriars Road will also have ground-source heat pumps generating 95 per cent of the development's heating needs, according to the studio.
The office tower and residential blocks will surround a central public plaza
Two residential blocks measuring 22 and 40 storeys tall will contain 400 homes, 40 per cent of which will be affordable housing.
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