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Greenwich Peninsula Housing London, Architecture, Image, Location, City, Design
Greenwich Peninsula Housing : Architecture Information
London building, England, by Jestico + Whiles Architects
Greenwich Peninsula Housing, southeast London
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Jestico + Whiles
A density of 460 dwellings per hectare is about as compact as you
can get. Add to that a development brief calling for a variety of
dwelling sizes and tenures (40% shared ownership and affordable rent)
and two storeys of car parking, and the result could have been an
unwieldy, monolithic management nightmare. But the architects for
this key site near the Millennium Dome have skillfully re-cast the
outline proposal contained in the overall masterplan to open up the
building form towards the new central park.

By splitting the upper levels into three separate blocks, each with
their own distinctive form and use of materials, views through and
out of the site are preserved, while ingenious three and two storey
houses stacked on top of each other in the intervening spaces mask
the car park core, and add street life to the new 'mini-park' formed
on top of it.
This central, private landscape is linked to the public park by a
grand staircase, and the intention is that the two will flow naturally
into each other, aided by planting cascading over the edge; and that
residents will be encouraged to use this route as part of their daily
journey to and from home, rather than being obliged always to enter
from the street.
The three-building split also enables flats to be planned around individual
lift and service cores, minimising internal corridor lengths and maximising
the number of dual aspect apartments; while all dwellings have their
own private open space in the form of generous balconies.
What is particularly striking about this scheme as a prototype is
the promise it gives of a new type of urban pattern not hitherto attempted
in London. The blank canvas of the Greenwich Peninsula has been exploited
to produce a strong urban grid with a scale more reminiscent of Paris
or even central New York than the byways of South London.
It will make an interesting contrast to the more romantic planning
of the Millennium Village further south. But every city needs such
contrasts, and every city needs the choices they offer in different
ways of living. Here is a scheme which makes a very firm statement
about what that way of living might be, and does so with great conviction
and panache.
Greenwich Peninsula Housing images / information from Jestico +
Whiles
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Hilton Hotel Canary Wharf London also
by Jestico + Whiles architects
Greenwich Peninsula Housing is part of the Terry Farrell & Partners
masterplan
Hilton Hotel London also by Jestico + Whiles architects
Greenwich Architecture
Millennium Dome

photo © webbaviation
Greenwich Hotel

picture from EJAL
Millennium Village Greenwich
North Greenwich Station
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