The Veggery Opens Its Doors in The Barbican

Photograph by Gemma Sandell

This week the Veggery officially opened its doors to the public as a free to use greenhouse, events space and spot for lunch. The installation will be open to the public every day between now and the end of September.

The Veggery is a greenhouse with notions of grandeur: a domed, hexagonal folly with a vaulted roof, pseudo-stained glass windows, water butts in place of columns and proudly sporting a metre-tall wooden turnip on top as a finial.

The design language is part English landscape garden folly, part allotment vernacular.

Photograph by Gemma Sandell

The Veggery is a free to use community greenhouse, learning space and urban growing project located on St Giles Terrace, within the Barbican Estate. Designed by Studio Folk Architects in collaboration with fabrication partners Raskl,the project was selected as the winning design in the Seeds in the City competition, organised by the London Festival of Architecture and Culture Mile BID in 2026.

Photograph by Gemma Sandell

Photograph by Mike Massaro

Designed as a welcoming space for students, residents and visitors, The Veggery brings together food growing, sustainability, education and community.