Photos for the new One Park Drive development in London’s Canary Wharf neighborhood have been released this week by Herzog & de Meuron. The project represents the Swiss firm’s second major development in the city following the cancellation of a planned football stadium last year and the completion of the Tate Modern’s Switch House in 2016.
The 58-story residential tower distinguishes itself from the surrounding neighborhood in a cylindrical form containing 484 apartment units whose function is contrasted by the area’s predominantly commercial spaces. 22 floors of blocky stepped one- and two-bedroom apartments sit atop a rounded base which houses 9 floors of curving balcony-lined apartments and an arrangement of amenities including a built-in library and cinema space. Another 25 floors of larger apartments top out the building with balconies included. Seven duplex apartments will be installed on the top two floors later this year.
The tower will anchor a new waterfront park that bookends the Wood Wharf section of the Canary Wharf Estate development currently overseen by the newly-appointed Shobi Khan. Other projects on the site include a train station by Foster + Partners and a colorful new basketball court by the artist Yinka Ilori. The revolution in remote work brought on by the pandemic has also affected the development, as a recent report from Canary Wharf’s economic group estimated that financial services tenants had fallen by about 50%.
Canary Wharf is considered to be the largest urban regeneration in European history. An interactive map of the development can be accessed here.
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So this building is basically the child of Marina City and Habitat 67 all grown up and moved to London. :-D
My thought upon seeing the first photo was "What if Safdie designed Marina City?" So clearly we're correct.
I'm sorry there's just one tower . A pair would be great.
Habitat and H&D don't belong in the same paragraph let alone the same book.
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