The 230,000 sqft commercial centrepiece of Knight Dragon’s regeneration of the Greenwich Peninsula masterplan is the Design District, a cluster of low-rise, artistically inspired buildings located near to the 02 arena at the tip of the Peninsula.
The development, which contains a variety of workspaces for 1,800 people, is made up of 16 buildings, with two buildings each designed by eight different architecture studios.
With the aim of replicating the variety of buildings and styles found within cities developed over a long period of time, each of the studios was not made aware of what the others were designing.
Arranged into seven distinct sub-districts, the development provides vibrant clusters of affordable workspaces, galleries, studios, incubators, start-ups, retail and food and beverage across the 1.08-hectare plot.
The buildings comprise a mix of structural and architectural finishes, with external façades including Terrazzo, CorTen steel, polycarbonate and ETFE, in-situ concrete and corrugated aluminium cladding.
Structurally, the buildings have been designed as a mix of traditional reinforced concrete, structural steel and cross laminated timber.
