First detailed plans for Wood Wharf
Detailed plans are beginning to emerge for the buildings that will make up the large mixed-use Wood Wharf scheme to the east of Canary Wharf.
Applications for the first two buildings in the seven hectare scheme have now been submitted to Tower Hamlets Council. The full scheme received outline permission last year.
Office buildings W01 and W02-03 will both be located on the north side of the site. W01 has been designed by architect Kohn Pedersen Fox, who are also responsible for Canary Wharf's Clifford Chance building. The building is 134m tall and provides 84,647m2 of office space.
One Canada Square designer Pelli Clarke Pelli are responsible for W02-03, a 194 metre building which will provide 155,023 square metres of office space.
Wood Wharf is to be delivered in four phases over a period of ten to 15 years by The Wood Wharf Partnership, which consists of Ballymore, Canary Wharf Group and British Waterways.
The project itself will feature six commercial buildings with 454,000 square metres of office space, 1,668 homes in six residential buildings, a waterside community park, an Idea Store, a new health centre, an outdoor market, a high street with shops, restaurants and bars, a waterside hotel, canal, and pedestrian and cycle links.
It is expected to create 25,000 new jobs, of which 5,000 are to be taken up by people from the area.
Jason Larkin, Wood Wharf (General Partner) Ltd's Executive Director (Planning) said: "We have engaged two of the world's great architectural practices to kick start the Wood Wharf development.
"They have designed two stunning buildings which will set the standards for next phases of development at Wood Wharf.
"The Partnership's phasing plans aim to co-inside with the up-turn in the world economy to ensure that Wood Wharf will be well placed to reap the benefits and deliver jobs and prosperity to London."
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Disappointing...any body hoping that the Wood Wharf development was going to inject a fresh and much needed contemporary wave of exciting architecture to the Canary Wharf area are going to be as mystified as I am as to why the developers of Wood Wharf seem to favor this 30 years out of date style. Yet another bland flat roof stump that looks like its been airlifted out of a small 1970's US city should have no place in 21st century London. In an ideal world Tower Hamlets Planning would throw this out and demand something better, something newer.
I'm afraid Jason Larkin needs to wake up and realise that these are not stunning designs but bland carbon copies of the existing towers in Canary Wharf. Being realistic we all understand that Wood Wharf will have to offer relatively inexpensive, large floorplate office blocks which will attract the corporate tenants which have made Canary Wharf so successful over the years, but surely architects with reputations such as these should be given a bit more licence to design something more inspiring. In particular, both towers are hideously overweight and will appear as big fat blots on the skyline rather like the current Barclays building. I agree with Ben's comments above and would urge Tower Hamlets to ask the developers to come up with something fit for 21st century London, otherwise Wood Wharf will be badly out-of-date before it's even started.
Ok, two ladders to the moon will get built before this one happens *press button once this time*
I AGREE TOTALLY WITH THE COMMENTS MADE AS TO THE LOOK AND DESIGN OF THESE TWO QUITE BLAND AND SO PREDICTABLE BUILDINGS. THEY ARE NOT STUNNING AS DESCRIBED BY JASON LARKIN ( WHAT IS HE LOOKING AT ) - CANT HE SEE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE CAN - PLAIN BORING BOXES.HOW SAD THAT IS ALL THEY CAN COME UP WITH - THEY SHOULD TAKE INSPIRATION FROM THE FANTASTIC SKYLINES OF DUBAI,DOHA AND BAHRAIN - NOW THEY REALLY DO HAVE - STUNNING SKYSCRAPERS.
PLEASE PLEASE TOWER HAMLETS - CHUCK THESE BLAND, BORING BOXES OUT AND INSIST ON TRUELY STUNNING DESIGNS - AT LEAST DO SOMETHING WITH THE SUMMITS OF THESE HIGH PROFILE SKYSCRAPER IF IT IS THE LEAST THEY DO.