One Thames City Courtyard

Two water features can be found in the West Courtyard area, a modern area that offers a stunning and calming focal point for residents and visitors to enjoy.

Bringing a sense of grandeur to the space, a towering wall of water, approximately 40m in length and 7m high in the centre, transforms an otherwise blank retaining wall, bringing intriguing movement and sound to the scene.

A circular reflective mirror pool feature adds a different, relaxing dynamic to the water wall’s cascading water by being located in the middle of the area on the ground. The paving is transformed when filled with water, it changes, attracting attention to minute surface ripples drawn across the surface and the sky above, which is reflected in the pool.

A mirror pool installation, rectangular with clean lines, measuring 10m x 5m.  Whilst a shallow body of water flows through the feature and over a weir edge at one end it appears still to form a mirror-like surface in non-windy conditions.

The visual effect created by this technology mirrors the architecture of the surrounding buildings creating an elegant and contemporary feature.  

This reflective watery mirror will encourage students, lecturers and visitors to pause and think as they pass through the landscaped area.

The water features are shallow mirror pools located either side of the main building entrance.

Water flows into the pools through sumps from where it flows over the pool weir edges and into below paving level troughs.