The architecture is a contemporary interpretation of Georgian urban residential architecture
The use of the site is primarily residential.
The organisation of the accommodation has aimed to:
- create an identifiable urban development
- provide a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments and business accommodation at street level
- create an internal place with intensive landscape content to provide an internal focus and sense of place which is both private and public and which respects the needs of both
- create a public pedestrian route from the north (Limehouse Basin) through the site to link with the public access to the Thames at Blyth’s Jetty
- create an opportunity for future development to be related to the site, particularly to the north.
The architecture of the scheme is informed by the following:
- a need to respect the quality of the existing conservation area riverside housing
- a need to create a positive ‘street-house’ relationship, both on Narrow Street and within the new development, consistent with the historical residential footprint of the area
- a need to create a meaningful urban landscape.
Eric Lyons European Housing Award 1992
