Skybloom

Eco-city developer · est. 2014

Cities that grow back.

Skybloom builds glass-and-timber districts where every tower carries its own garden. Scroll to watch one rise.

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  • 14 towers · Lumen Quay
  • 61 floors · Verdant Spire
  • 11 ha · Fernhill Commons

01 Ground

We start with the soil, not the skyline.

Before a single pile is driven we map water, wind and the species already living on the plot. The masterplan bends around them.

02 Rise

Glass where light matters. Timber everywhere else.

Mass-timber cores and triple-glazed skins go up in weeks, not years — prefabricated within 80 km of the site.

03 Bloom

Every floor is a planting plan.

Terraces, facade troughs and roof meadows are engineered into the structure from day one, irrigated by rain the building catches itself.

04 Dusk

A district that keeps living after hours.

When the light goes, the gardens keep cooling the streets and the windows come on one by one. This is what we hand over: a neighbourhood, already alive.

Built & building

Three districts, one idea.

Each place is different. The rule is the same: the garden is part of the structure, not added at the end.

  • Harbourfront · 14 towers

    Lumen Quay

    A former container wharf turned into fourteen glass-and-timber towers stepping down to the water, linked by planted bridges.

    planted facade
    38,000 m²
    homes
    2,400
    completed
    2022

  • Hillside · 1 tower, 61 floors

    Verdant Spire

    The tallest timber-hybrid in the region, wrapped in nine sky gardens that residents tend together, one every seven floors.

    floors
    61
    sky gardens
    9
    completed
    2025

  • Former rail yard · 22 low-rises

    Fernhill Commons

    Twenty-two low-rise blocks around a restored meadow, with car-free streets and a school that opens onto the wildflowers.

    restored meadow
    11 ha
    through-traffic streets
    0
    in construction
    since 2026

Principles

How we build.

Four rules we do not negotiate on, written into every contract we sign.

  1. 40%

    Plant first

    Planting is drawn before floor plans. Forty per cent of every plot stays open soil.

  2. 90%

    Catch every drop

    Roof meadows and cisterns hold nine-tenths of rainfall on site and feed the facade gardens.

  3. −62%

    Build light

    Mass timber stores carbon instead of emitting it: embodied CO₂ is down 62% against concrete.

  4. 80 km

    Stay nearby

    Eighty per cent of components are made within 80 km of the site, by people who live there.

Impact, audited yearly

Measured, not promised.

plants established across our districts
1.2 M
street-level summer temperature
−4.1 °C
less embodied carbon than concrete
62%
species recorded on our sites
214

Process

From plot to neighbourhood.

Five steps, roughly three years, and a decade of looking after what we planted.

  1. Listen

    Six months of site ecology surveys and resident workshops before any drawing.

  2. Draw

    A masterplan drawn around existing trees, water flows and prevailing wind.

  3. Prefabricate

    Timber cassettes and planters built off-site, within 80 km.

  4. Rise

    Structure and skin in under twenty weeks per tower, with almost no site waste.

  5. Tend

    We stay on as gardeners for ten years, then hand the tools to residents.

Contact

Plant a district with us.

Partnering on a plot, a policy or a pilot? Our team answers every message within two working days.