A picturesque promenade through the Canada Water Site in London, the first new city center in Great Britain for 50 years.
(Asif Khan Studios/Tom Campbell)
In the past 400 years, the Rother Hithe peninsula in the London East End has been a goal for new worlds. Here Captain William Bradford enjoyed his last drink in England before sailing on Mayflower in 1620. And today it is home to Canada Water, a new city center developer that will open Hope for British urban planning.
Following A Masterplan adopted by British Land, The Australiansuper Pension Fund, and the Southwark Council, Developers are now seven year you a 15-year project to transform a 53-acre (21.44 hectares) Parcel of Industrial Land and a Form Quay Into A Community That Will Include as 3,000 New Homes, 2 million Square Feet (185.806 Square meters) of Office Space and 1 million Square Feet (92.903 Square meters) of retail, leisure and entertainment areas.
This year, the developers are scheduled to deliver a 300,000 square meter 300,000 square meter feet that provide a retail area of 13,000 square meters, a residential tower with 186 units and a new public leisure center and a new center for public leisure. And there is much more, including 16 new roads, a 3.5 hectare park and a new town square. In total, 35 percent of the master plan are open space, a higher ratio than somewhere else in the center of London, with enough office space for up to 20,000 workers.
In addition, the German real estate development group Art-Invest Real Estate Dockside Canada Water, a 4.5 hectare (1.8 ha), 1.5 million square meters of square meters (139.354 SQ-M) program adjacent to the British Landmeister-Parkell and Canada-Dock, the remnant of the former Hark, which is today the heart of the planned community. The articles of Art-Invest include student apartments, offices and retail.
The foundation offers apartments of 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms in Canada water near Canary Wharf in London.
“A number of Lows”
From the moment when he saw the website in 2015, Roger Madelin thought that it could be something special. “I was completely overwhelmed …”, says the joint head of the Canada Water Development for British Land, whose earlier career as CEO as CEO, the Argent Property Group included another large London project, the renovation of Kings Cross.
Canada Water may be the greatest development of London in the past 50 years, but Madelin saw more in the package than around the scale. “It had all the things they only thought if they could do a piece of city better, what would they want more green areas. ”
After Madelin had accepted British Land's offer to head the project together, he gave a simple guideline: “Could we only create a number of” Wows “?” “You are on, you go:” Wow, we are in a beautiful place “… you go to a building, be it an office building, a retail building or a cultural building, and you are wow.”
Starting with two sides of Waterfront on Canada Dock, the last remnant of a much larger port in the 1980s, London Architects Allies and Morrison tried to sign.
The Canada Water Masterplan has several elements that reflect the history of the area as port, including a red pedestrian bridge of 524 feet by designer Asif Khan. The bridge reflects two historical red bridges, which, when they are raised at the same time, cuts the peninsula from the rest of London. The planners also made some streets tight and repeated the past of the area as a home of Docks and Hafenlager and, according to Sarah La Touche, a director at Allies and Morrison, who began in the master plan in the master plan in the master plan in the master plan in 2013, added other details that were inspired by other public spaces in the water in Great Britain, as well as in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which in Masterplan Master plan had worked.
There is also more low than hit the eye. With regard to sustainability, for example, Madelin realizes that none of the buildings should use fossil fuels, which will make Canada the largest so low carbon development in Great Britain.
Phil Ryan, director, City Futures, Global Insight, for JLL, a consultant in the British country, also pointed out the sizes and types of apartments to indicate this
The master plan also deserves high notes of Ryan and other real estate experts. The plan was created in close consultation with the 30,000 inhabitants who live on the Rotherhithe peninsula around Canada and, according to Michael Meadows, head of planning and public affairs in the British country, as local needs and market requirements.
“To be part of the community on the peninsula is very important to us,” says Meadows, who finds that the British country is part of the local feedback on the design of the master plan and even consulted the community via street names.
Chris Schorah, Senior Development Manager at Art-Invest in London, says that the group is not part of the master plan, coordinated with the British country with the use of the same landscape architecture office, to integrate in order to further integrate the plots. “We really want that there are a coherent approach to the public area,” says Schorah.
British Land and Australieruper have presented the highly awaited future vision for the printwork building in the Grand Press, a new work area that is intended in addition to the building permit, a unique cultural event location in the heart of the Canadian water master plan in the center of London. The building, which is previously known as Harmsworth Quay, was once Europe's largest printing facility from 1989. Today it is the last, non -converted industrial building of the Central London, which is the rare chance of revival.
(British country/Australieruper)
Stay in front of the curve
Jlls Ryan gives British land traces for both planning and development pace. The company has “a strong understanding of what makes good places. At the same time, however, they developed in accordance with the start of the market. They are” good to read the space and know when you have to be ahead of the curve, “says Ryan.
As Madelin and Ryan noticed, the flexible master plan of Canada Water was a key element for the design and construction of development.
The Canada Dynamic Masterplan was developed by allies and Morrison, which has already had experience with the flexible use master plan, which it created and followed during the cross -renovation of Kings Cross to follow flexible guidelines that could change over time.
“If the work area has challenges on the market, houses can be delivered and vice versa at any time so that something can always be done and the project can keep in motion,” explains Allies and Morrison's La Touche.
In the first years of the Canada Water Plan, the Southwark authorities were skeptical of the flexible approach. “It was difficult for Southwark to move … there was still a little leap,” she recalls.
But now this ability to keep up with the shift in demand has already proven to be a decisive advantage for the development in Ryan's perspective. “To keep the momentum going, you always want to have a steady pipeline – it is much more expensive to start and stop it,” he explains.