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Sainsbury's Greenwich
Sainsbury's Greenwich in September 2010
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General information
Architectural style
Address55 Bugsby's Way, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10[2]
Town or cityRoyal Borough of Greenwich, London
CountryUnited Kingdom
Coordinates51°29′23.23″N 0°0′59.72″E / 51.4897861°N 0.0165889°E / 51.4897861; 0.0165889
OpenedSeptember 1999[3]
Closed24 June 2015[4]
Demolished2016
Cost£13 million[5]
ClientSainsbury's
Height104 m (341 ft)
Dimensions
Diameter160 m × 150 m (520 ft × 490 ft)
Technical details
Floor area26,000 m2 (280,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)Chetwoods Architects[6]
Other information
Public transit accessLondon Buses: Route 108,[7][8] route 129,[9] route 132,[10] route 161,[11] route 472,[12] route 486,[13]

Underground: North Greenwich (0.92 miles; 1.48 km)[14]
Overground: Westcombe Park (0.39 miles; 0.63 km)[14]

DLR: Cutty Sark (1.31 miles; 2.11 km)[14]

Sainsbury's, Greenwich, also known as the Sainsbury's Millenium Store, was a Sainsbury's supermarket building at 55 Bugsby's Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London. Opening in 1999 as Sainsbury's flagship store, the building design incorporated environmentally conscious features and gained critical acclaim, being shortlisted for the 2000 Stirling Prize. It was billed as "the first Green supermarket in the world".[15]

In 2014, after an application for listed status failed, planning permission to demolish the store was approved by Greenwich London Borough Council with Sainsbury's moving to a new site in Charlton. Demolition began in 2016, and an IKEA store was built on the site.

Construction and design

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Construction

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The store was

Design

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The Greenwich store was designed to minimise its environmental impact and give a more pleasant shopping experience.[16] Dino Adriano, Sainsbury's CEO, said the building marked "a watershed in supermarket architecture".[17] The store was designed by Paul Hinkin of Chetwood Associates,[16] and helped the architecture practice "[become] noticeable on the architectural horizon".[18]

Hinkin described the building as "a simple rectangular plan" with six internal columns, making it "ideally suited for a wide range of uses".[1] The entrance lobby was created from recycled airplane parts and car tyres and wall panels in the toilets were made from recycled plastic bottles.[18]

By utilising daylight instead of artificial lighting and having combined heat and power (CHP), Sainsbury's Greenwich consumed 50% less energy than a conventionally-designed supermarket.[2] Wind turbines and solar panels were installed to provide renewable energy,[5] generating enough to power the store's signs overnight.[19]: i  The store's petrol station was the first Sainsbury's building to be built with solar panels; since panels were very expensive at the time, none of the company's other buildings had solar panels installed until 2011.[20] It was intended that, by 2001, energy-saving and sustainable features could be evaluated and replicated in other stores.[19]: 8–9, 14 

The landscaping around the store was done by the Woodland Trust.[2]

The building scored a perfect 31 out of 31 environmental rating, the highest score ever for a retail building, and was the first supermarket and first British building to receive an 'excellent' BREEAM rating.[5][16] It was recognised as "the greenest supermarket building in the world" at the time,[18] and described by architecture critic Robert Park as "the most energy-efficient supermarket building we have ever seen".[1] https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2011/09/21/greenwich-sainsburys-store-plans-move-to-charlton/

Opening and history

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Sainsbury's Greenwich was opened in September 1999 by Jamie Oliver.[16][3]

The store became one of 20 Sainsbury's shops in South East London to take part in what the company described as "the UK's first urban composting trial" to dispose of food waste that could not be donated.[19]: 12  Sainsbury's reported that the Greenwich store reduced its refuse collection from weekly to up to every three weeks.[19]: 12 

In 2009, Sainsbury's Greenwich was one of the company's nine initial stores to install electric vehicle charging points; The Evening Standard said that this was "a boost" to Mayor of London Boris Johnson's push to promote electric vehicle use in London.[21]

In 2010, Jacob Zuma visited the store during his state visit to the UK.[15][22] Zuma had requested a tour,[23] and was accompanied by Justin King (Sainsbury's CEO) and Hilary Benn (the Environment Secretary).[22]

Closure and demolition

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In February 2012, Sainsbury's announced its plans to leave its Greenwich store, move to a new, larger site nearby, and lease the vacant building to a different, non-supermarket retailer.[24] The company said it was "looking to build a new flagship environmental store" and that new environmental technologies could be used if it built a new store.[24] Hinkin, the store's architect, said that the building should be used, as intended, for food retailing, and disagreed with Sainsbury's that the store's environmental features had been surpassed.[24] Some architects and designers suggested that the building's sustainability was compromised by its specific design as a food retailer, and that it should have been designed with reuse in mind.[1][24]

In November 2013,[25] Hinkin started a petition against the building's demolition, claiming that it represented "an act of vandalism".[26] Hinkin asked for help from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), but said they had "sat on their hands"; RIBA president Stephen Hodder called the supermarket "a landmark of its time" and said he would be sad to see it be demolished, but concluded that it was a decision for the local council to make.[27] The petition gained support from hundreds of people including architects George Ferguson and Angela Brady,[6] and Green Party leader Natalie Bennett.[5]

In February 2014, after IKEA had applied for permission to demolish the store and build a larger one in its place,[28] The Twentieth Century Society submitted an application to English Heritage for Sainsbury's Greenwich to be grade II* listed.[6] This would have made it both the first listed supermarket in the UK and the youngest building to ever be listed.[6] Catherine Croft, the Society's director, said that demolition would be "a tragic waste of energy and resources" and result in the loss of "the most innovative retail store to have been built in the UK in the last 50 years".[6]

According to Building Design, IKEA's application for demolition was "expected to be recommended for approval" by Greenwich London Borough Council.[28] In March 2014, Greenwich Council's planning board approved the IKEA's proposal by five votes to two, while saying that the store's demolition was "unfortunate".[5]

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/listing-bid-made-in-desperate-attempt-to-stop-sainsburys-demolition

The store's last day open was on 24 June 2015, closing for the final time at 6pm.[4]

Awards

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Sainsbury's Greenwich received a number of awards for its architecture and sustainable design.

It was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2000 and won the the RIBA Journal Sustainability Award.[18][24] The store also won the Design Museum's Design Sense Award, the Retail Week Store Design of the Year 2000, and Channel 4's Building of the Year: People's Choice 2000.[18]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Paul Hinkin; Robert Park (14 March 2014). "Debate: Would the loss of Sainsbury's eco-store be a blow for sustainability?". Building Design. No. 2099. p. 7.
  2. ^ a b c Frank Krikhaar. "100 Buildings 100 Years - 1999: Sainsbury's Eco-store". Twentieth Century Society. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  3. ^ a b C20 Society [@C20Society] (September 15, 2022). "#TBT In Sept 1999, Chef Jamie Oliver opened Sainsbury's new Millennium eco store in Greenwich. Heralded as the most sustainable supermarket ever built, it represented a complete re-think of traditional retail-box design, yet lasted barely 20 years before being demolished in 2016" (Tweet) – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b Darryl Chamberlain (24 June 2015). "Goodbye to Greenwich's 'eco'-Sainsbury's: 1999 – 2015". Greenwich Wire. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e Jonathan Prynn; Tim Stewart (13 March 2014). "Row over demolition of £13m 'supermarket of the future' in Greenwich". The Evening Standard. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e Laura Mark (20 February 2014). "Listing bid made in desperate attempt to stop Sainsbury's demolition". Architects' Journal. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Route 108: Lewisham - Blackheath - North Greenwich - Bow - Stratford". London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 25 November 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  8. ^ "Route 108: Lewisham - Blackheath - North Greenwich - Poplar - Bow - Stratford International". London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 1 October 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  9. ^ "Route 129: North Greenwich - East Greenwich - Greenwich". London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 3 June 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  10. ^ "Route 132: Bexleyheath - Bexley - Blendon - Blackfen - Eltham - Blackheath - North Greenwich". London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 24 January 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Route 161: North Greenwich - Woolwich - Chislehurst" (PDF). London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 10 May 2003. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  12. ^ "Route 472: Thamesmead - Woolwich - North Greenwich" (PDF). London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 2 June 2001. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Route 486: North Greenwich - Qn Elizabeth Hospital - Bexleyheath" (PDF). London Bus Timetable Graveyard. 23 February 2002. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  14. ^ a b c "Ikea, 55 Bugsbys Way, London, SE10 0QJ". All Things Greenwich. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  15. ^ a b "South African State Visit, 2 to 5 March 2010". The Royal Family. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  16. ^ a b c d "Lost Modern - Sainsbury's, Greenwich, London". C20 Society. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  17. ^ "Due for Demolition?" (PDF). Westcombe News. No. 3. April 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  18. ^ a b c d e "A Rapturous Delight in the Natural World: Laurie Chetwood". Architectural Design. 92 (1): 128–133. January 2022. doi:10.1002/ad.2782.
  19. ^ a b c d "Working towards a better environment: Environment Report 2000". Morningstar. J Sainsbury plc. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  20. ^ "Saving energy while the sun shines". Air Conditioning & Refrigeration News. Vol. 29, no. 1. October 2012. p. 34.
  21. ^ Sri Carmichael (5 November 2009). "Electric car charge points installed at Sainsbury's". The Evening Standard. p. 18. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
  22. ^ a b "President Zuma visits Sainsbury's but shoppers are engrossed by cheese". The Times. 5 March 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  23. ^ ""The President of the Republic of South Africa, Jacob Zuma visits Sainsbury's Greenwich" press release". Sainsbury's Archive. 4 March 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  24. ^ a b c d e Mark Wilding (17 February 2012). "Sainsbury's to ditch pioneering store". Building Design. No. 2001. p. 4.
  25. ^ "Award-winning 'eco-supermarket' faces demolition for new Ikea store". Building Design. No. 2087. 29 November 2013. p. 3.
  26. ^ Beth Brooks (7 December 2013). "Architects protest at demolition of Sainsbury's Greenwich store". The Grocer. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
  27. ^ "Eco-Sainsbury's architect asks RIBA to stop demolition". Building Design. No. 2099. 14 March 2014. p. 3. Hinkin ... has asked the RIBA for help but said: "The RIBA have sat on their hands which is a bit disappointing." RIBA president Stephen Hodder said: "I'm sad to see the demolition of a supermarket which was clearly a landmark of its time. The question for the council is whether the benefits outweigh its demolition."
  28. ^ a b "Eco-store in last-minute listing bid". Building Design. No. 2096. 21 February 2014. p. 1.
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