London to Get New Design District
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London’s new Greenwich Peninsula development will soon host a purpose-built design district created by eight different architecture studios. Spread over one hectare, it will serve as the permanent base for more than 1,800 of London’s creative agencies witLondon to Get New Design District
London’s new Greenwich Peninsula development will soon host a purpose-built design district created by eight different architecture studios. Spread over one hectare, it will serve as the permanent base for more than 1,800 of London’s creative agencies with a large array of affordable architect-designed workspaces. These will be situated at the heart of the riverside site. The buildings will be designed by 6a Architects, Mole, Architecture 00, Barrozi Veiga, SelgasCano, Assemblage, Adam Khan Architects, and David Kohn Architects, and the public space will be created by landscape architects Schulze+Grassov.Supervised by developer Knight Dragon, 16 buildings will serve as the anchor for the design district. Each of the eight firms were instructed to design two independent buildings that would be “blind” from each other, to ensure diversity of color and form, notes Dezeen magazine. Low-cost, human-scaled workshops will be located inside the buildings, which will stand next to each other. Artists’ studios and flexible desk spaces will be scattered around a chain of courtyards and a central public square. Pedestrian walkways will be available throughout the district, along with a see-through market hall at its center.Visitors will be able to access open house workshops, rooftop terraces, and a basketball court, along with rotating exhibitions of works by local designers at the retail design studios. Reportedly, studio rents will be around £25 per square foot with workshop spaces starting from £10 per square foot, making it among the most cost-effective workspaces in London.Click here to view the slideshow. Read more