Borough Market opens new city garden.

Borough Market, the UK’s most famous food market has opened the doors on its newest space – Market Hall.
The Market Hall – is a striking glass structure that opens out onto the Green Market and provides a convenient new entrance onto Borough High Street – it offers shoppers a place to sit, eat, relax and chat, while discovering more about the Market and the food it sells. It will be simultaneously a classroom, a kitchen, an orchard, an information hub and a dining hall, contained within a highly distinctive and architecturally innovative public space.

Throughout the year, the Market Hall will be used for growing hops, fruits, flowers, herbs, olives and salad leaves, resulting in a wonderfully fragrant and visually stimulating environment as well as providing a highly engaging focus for educational programmes. The hall’s structure has been designed to maximise its horticultural potential, with huge amounts of light flooding in through the glass, vertical planters running up the pillars, and benches constructed with planting spaces at either end, all of which has been supported, in part, with funding from Natural England. As part of the Market’s commitment to sustainability, the plants will be watered using a rainwater irrigation system and the resulting produce will be used for cooking demonstrations, tastings, workshops and, in the case of the hops, potentially even the brewing of a Borough Market beer.

Donald Hyslop, Chair of the Trustees of Borough Market said:

“The opening of Market Hall signifies the next chapter in Borough’s long and rich history.  We have created in essence a city garden - one that will offer visitors with a place to sit, eat, relax and chat, while discovering more about the Market and the food it sells. It is a place of exploration, a place where shoppers can be made aware of seasonal produce and special events”.

Market Hall is now open for all to enjoy during trading hours Monday-Saturday.
All images in this article are courtesy of Paul Brock 
For more information on Borough Market please see their website at www.boroughmarket.org.uk

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