Today we’re going to present you the first residential project, in the UK, from Herzog and de Meuron. With studio apartments and four bedroom homes, the studio brought modernist values to luxury residential living at One Park Drive in Canary Wharf.
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In a building with 58 floors with 483 residences across them, the architects have created a cylindrically evolving object formed of balconies, terraces and bay windows. The building has been engineered using a mix of three three typologies of homes – loft, bay and cluster – layered in alternating stepped floor plans, which allow for balconies and large bay windows for each unit.
High-ceilinged loft style apartments with spacious terraces form the base, while visually projecting from the central barrel, smaller apartments occupy the middle belt of the building, and above, larger two to three bedroom homes fill the volume, recessing back with their terraces cut back from the form.
The estimated date for the conclusion of the One Park Drive project is set to 2018, when the high-end housing project will be fed with its refined residents as part of the first phase of Canary Wharf’s inhabitation programme.
An architectural experiment as well as a social one, Canary Wharf has enlisted a stellar list of architects to build an identity for the area which is one of the Dockland’s last remaining undeveloped expanses. Along with Herzog & de Meron, Stanton Williams Architects, Allies and Morrison, Grid Architects, KPF, Darling Associates, Patel Taylor and Wirtz International are contributing to the first phase of the urban transformation.
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