At 75-storeys, Landmark Pinnacle is the tallest residential building in Europe. It is located adjacent to the South-West India Dock in the Isle of Dogs in east London, in close proximity to 1 Bank Street and the Newfoundland tower, both of which Sandy Brown also advised on.

The building comprises over 800 apartments along with wide-ranging residential amenity split over several floors and penthouses on the upper levels. The amenity spaces include tropical gardens, a cinema, a golf simulator, private dining, a sky terrace and the UK’s highest gym with a floating concrete floor on Level 56.

The development also included the creation of an affordable housing scheme located at the nearby Island Point, a project on which Sandy Brown also advised.

Given the scale of the building, the structural, services and facade designs were complex.

A full 3D acoustic computer model of the site and surrounding area was used to develop the facade sound insulation strategy, reflecting the existing and future noise environment.

The control of vertical and horizontal flanking noise transfer via the facade required particular attention both in design and off-site manufacture / testing in Zagreb, responding to the high internal sound insulation performance required of such a scheme.

Comfort cooling and mechanical ventilation is provided within each apartment, which required diligence to deliver both the internal apartment noise control strategy and that of the centralised heat rejection systems.

The inclusion of residential amenity at Levels 1, 27 and 56 introduced additional acoustic design requirements.

High noise uses such as the cinema and the gym dictated an acoustic strategy including high mass, isolated floors, ceiling and wall treatments. This ensured that noise transfer to adjacent parts of the building was adequately controlled for the intended use.