Jubilee Park at Canary Wharf in London is a small heaven of peace, freshness and intense nature, surrounded by high-rise buildings, housing 40.000 office workers. It is constructed on two different rooftops and contains two large metro entrances, shopping centre skylight and several ventilation and emergency features.
Despite these technical constraints, the pedestrian is absorbed in an oasis of sweeping grass mounds, dense thickets of Metasequoia trees and the noise of a long elevated meandering “river”, which functions as the backbone of the garden.

The atmosphere and the success of the park rests on a restrained palette of very generously repeated materials: Metasequoia trees that block the outside world, lawn mounds and the use of split lime stone blocks.