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FOR PEOPLE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF LONDON FOR PEOPLE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF LONDON 34–41 88–89 EXPLORE 15 & 20 Water Street Children of the city 42–43 92–93 Scaling up Re:Cycle 44–45 Designing for companies that don’t exist yet 61–63 Innovation at the core 22–25 A question of balance 72–77 95–96 The vision Signature brews 78–79 97 04—05 Crossrail Place Can a building help Wood Wharf in numbers you live longer? 47–57 Looking east 06—07 The masterplan 26–31 08—09 64—65 How can architecture Frameworks, Island life cultivate a city? 8 Union Square 66—71 32–33 12—17 One Brannan Street 98–101 Affordable luxury The Market Building, What’s old is new again 7 Charter Street 58—60 102–105 Taking sustainability The future 1 18—21 and affordable housing under construction 2 Flora & fauna to the next level 108 Contact the team 80—87 Tribal retail The speed read Master Plan/Vision Residential designed — Terry Farrell but not built Darling Associates Master Plan/Public Realm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates Allies and Morrison Wood Wharf Glenn Howells Architects Residential in design Adamson Associates Karukesevic Carson in numbers Landscape Serviced Apartments Wirtz International in design Townshend Landscape Architects Jo Cowen Architects HTA Design Commercial under construction Retail in design Allies and Morrison and planned Glenn Howells Architects Commercial buildings in design School/Health Centre 3,300 Fred Pilbrow Patel Taylor Allford Hall Monaghan Morris NEW HOMES WITH Grimshaw Architects 25% AFFORDABLE HOUSING ONSITE Residential — under construction 1.9 Architecturally unique Herzog & de Meuron MILLION SQ FT and striking in design, Stanton Williams OF WORKSPACE each of the residential Grid Architects — spaces has been 200 Adamson Associates A new London thoughtfully curated DIVERSE AND John Robertson Architects neighbourhood. for the very best in city INSPIRING EVENTS Patel Taylor Created for the 350, and waterside living. — Allies and Morrison Day and night, curious, the The neighbourhood Monday to Sunday, imaginative and 000 will have everything the challengers of the neighbourhood SQ FT OF HAND a thriving community convention. A place and Canary Wharf PICKED RETAIL & needs, from a new to inspire creativity are alive with LEISURE SPACE local primary school entertainment. and collaboration, to its own doctor’s 9 — designed for people ACRES OF Authentic street Lively high streets surgery. shaping the future RIVERSIDE food markets for mixed with intimate of one of the world’s PARKLANDS adventurous appetites. boutique arcades. AND GARDENS most exciting cities. Ice rinks in winter, Explore early morning — beach volleyball in world-renowned juice spots, gorgeous Acres of boardwalks, summer. Cult movie homewares, artisan plazas and parks screenings one bakers and some of combine to create an architects evening, London the best restaurants oasis of urban green Philharmonic London has to offer. space in the heart of performances the city. the next. 3 NORTH DOCK POPLAR DOCK ELIZABETH LINE MARINA Wood Wharf is for people that CANADA NORTH ONE CHURCHILL love their city and make the most SQUARE COLONNADE PLACE of it. A neighbourhood curated by the world’s leading architects where cafés, bars, workspaces and independent retailers sit within 9 acres of riverside NORTH COLONNADE CHURCHILL PLACE parklands and gardens. R I E C I T R One R C Charter A L BLACKWALL E C Street BASIN CANADA BELLMOUTH SQUARE PASSAGE CHURCHILL PLACE P M CHURCHILL PLACE SOUTH COLONNADE F3 GRAVING DOC MONTGOMERY STREET 4 Charter TIMBER QUAY LOVEGROVE WALK Street One Brannan F1 F2 Street K Walking times CHURCHILL CANADA PLACE SQUARE F4 BRANNAN STREET 3 mins – Jubilee line BERNERS PLACE 5 mins – Elizabeth line CHARTER STREET G2 The Market Building G1 G3 MONTGOMERY SQUARE WATER SQUARE 15 Water Street G4 6 mins – DLR 1 Water RIVINGTON WALK Street 5 Water H1 H3 Street UNION SQUARE G10 WATER STREET N O R T H L A N E W E S T L A N E E A S T L A N E H A R B O R D S Q U A R E WRAYBURN PLACE PRESTO JUBILEE LINE WATER STREET L1 G5 Commercial 20 Water Frameworks G7 N P A R K D R I V E Street S O U T H L A N E H4 H3 ’ 8 Water Street 10 Residential (market) S R O A D Park G6 Drive M1 Residential (intermediate rent) UPPER BANK C O M P T O N GEORGE STREET HAZELTON WALK CHARTER STREET Residential (affordable rent) STREET G A R D E N S Hotel/services apartment J2 J5 10 George Street J1 40 J3 One J4 Com munity Charter 5 Park Drive Street P A R K D R I V E Retail HARBOUR QUAY G A R D E N S HARBOUR QUAY Wood Wharf marketing suite HARBOUR QUAY SOUTH DOCK hat was your approach to the How similar was the process to designing masterplan of Wood Wharf? We set a small city? It’s similar in that the body of the How can Allies and Morrison out to understand the context – the masterplan is built around the notion of place- levels and the amazing waterscape, making but not in a picturesque sense – in a way architecture the old docks and water systems. that achieves an understandable legibility that WWood Wharf is unlike two other projects we once you’re in the place you know what the most cultivate a city? masterplanned: the 2012 Olympic park and important streets are, what the destinations are King’s Cross. Both of those projects had a job to and how the place works – exactly as you would We discuss the do that was to integrate into an existing urban within an existing city. So it’s very important that fabric and make repairs to the city. Wood Wharf the street patterns and the buildings signal, talk, importance of is very different because it’s effectively an island and reveal the sense of place that you’re expecting connected to Canary Wharf by an isthmus or to come next, just like walking around other parts a truly mixed- bridge. So because integration into an existing city of London. structure was not a necessary aim, it allowed a How did you design for the future? There needs use plan with series of freedoms. Here, the context is the urban to be certainty in terms of a street layout, but with scale of Canary Wharf and the sheer drama of the the buildings, flexibility to change your mind in masterplanner waterways surrounding Wood Wharf. order to respond to the market with the kinds of In particular, we wanted to avoid a pompous buildings they may choose to build. For example, Graham gesture as a sort of diagrammatic answer to the if you can produce a building that is say 45–50m site’s context, economy and masterplan. The best wide by 36–40m deep, it will accommodate most Morrison, cities are not made of gestures, but buildings that uses. We might do a design for an office and a work together and are workable in themselves. design for residential to test that and ensure the OBE, Partner, space is appropriate for both. We tend to produce What are the anchors of the masterplan? There buildings with spaces that are easy to use – lots Allies and are three parts: a connector, a perimeter or edge of rectangles. You make those rectangles special adjacent to the water and then the body of the SHAPING with the surfacing, depths, layers and elevational Morrison. masterplan itself. The connector is straightforward hierarchies. Old warehouses, in particular, are – that is to join Wood Wharf with Canary Wharf. incredibly flexible buildings – you can use them The first buildings act as a prelude or overture, for schools, hospitals, homes… they’re very simple, announcing the kind of place you’re coming to. but versatile. THE FUTURE They reveal something of what is to happen – both in terms of scale and street pattern and structure. We then looked for common denominators that could accommodate easily developable buildings without compromising the street pattern and indeed, the thing we value highly – the space between buildings – which is, in the end, what makes a city. Those spaces are the parks, squares, recreational areas, gathering places, promenades, the walks, the shortcuts – all the things that make a city, but are invisible in a grand plan. How did you maximise the surrounding waterways? Wood Wharf is made up of a series of major buildings – the main generators of Left Wood Wharf activity. Unusually the buildings get taller towards from the air the edge, because they’re near the water. Often, looking west. masterplans are more of a pie shape, with the taller buildings in the centre. In this case, it’s almost the reverse: lower in the middle and higher 8 at the edge, to deliberately exploit the views seen from a long distance because of the wide horizon of the waterscape. This produces a composition of buildings along the water’s edge that will be Masterplan beautiful in itself. Computer generated image. Indicative only. Interview by Amy Guttman Twitter @AmyGuttman1 Computer generated image. Indicative only. Terrace villages at Wood Wharf, looking west. “ IT PROVIDES A PLACE THAT IS AN EXTENSION OF THE PUBLIC REALM. IT ALSO TALKS TO WHAT THE WORKPLACE OF THE FUTURE MIGHT BE LIKE. ” 11 12 Fred Pilbrow — Pilbrow & Partners A sketch from the — original proposal Project of The Market Building The Market Building: by Pilbrow & Partners. 7 Charter Street — Total building area 212,954 sq ft — Architect Pilbrow & Partners discusses his , senior founding partner Pilbrow & Partners Fred Pilbrow of approach to designing a building as an extension of the public realm.