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FROM THE EDITOR
With the pandemic and various other forces continuing to wreak havoc across society and our economy, it’s reassuring to see a major residential project in London with some architectural flair reach fruition. And with the housing market seeing the most sluggish performance for years in the capital, it’s good the developers held their nerve on the ‘Newfoundland’ scheme in Canary Wharf, the financial district’s first build to rent project, and one which brings high-end, high-rise living within the reach of more people.
The new building designed by Horden Cherry Lee (HCL) on the western flank of the dock follows on from Herzog and de Meuron’s One Park Place, a 58-storey residential cylinder completed earlier this year, formed of an ingenious arrangement of concrete bay windows. In the eastern end of Canary Wharf (actually the adjacentWood Wharf), this building however broke the dominance of the rectilinear, very business-like mould of most of the development around the area in the past decades.
Newfoundland continues the architectural innovation, but with a different approach that celebrates its metal structure. Its finished form looks great, with a Gherkin-like external diagrid of aluminium- clad steel – as you can read in our project report by JackWooler. The diagonal members aren’t just efficient, they frame the expansive floor-to-ceiling views within apartments in a variety of interesting ways, enhancing the sense of ‘specialness’ of living in this prime site for residents.
It’s also the tallest build to rent property in London, not surprising given the need to maximise every square inch of such a site, and the relative lack of height restrictions. As well as the physical differences with One Park Place, Newfoundland offers the opportunity to rent an apartment in a very desirable location (although a three-bedroomed one would stretch most families’ resources at around £1,600 a week).
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There are 9,500 tonnes of structural steelwork in the project, making it a major user of metal in recent times in the capital. It also enhances the aesthetics of such large-scale facades, making them oddly (i.e. despite the steelwork’s mass), seem lighter than the building’s nearby counterparts. It demonstrates how metal facades can be employed as architectural tools to avoid the ‘hegemony problem’ which can occur with glass curtain walling.
We hope you enjoy the report on this key new scheme, as well as the rest of this supplement. Also, look out for our Building Insights podcast on tall buildings, coming later this year on all the major podcast channels!
James Parker Editor
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ON THE COVER... Newfoundland, for Vertus in Canary Wharf, is a new addition to London’s skyline, with an external diagrid braced tube structure, forming a ‘hollow cantilever’ perpendicular to the ground.
For the full report on this project, go to page 16.
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