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Wick Park London 2018–2023

Residential building for 330 students, incubator workspace for graduates, and artists’ studios, exhibition and performance space for Stour Space on Fish Island in Hackney Wick, just west of the Olympic Park. The scheme was granted detailed planning in 2019 and completed in 2023.

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Fish Island and Hackney Wick has a rich heritage of industrial architecture, a mixture of warehouse and factory space…
…characterised by its diversity, robust and authentic construction. The proposals draw on this industrial heritage
Entrance forecourt to the commercial yard, one of two new public spaces
The design recalls the historic arrangement of the now demolished John Broadwood & Sons piano factory (Fish Island, 1949)
Highlighted in bold, the scheme falls within the London Legacy Development Area
The student accommodation
The design creates a new urban block punctuated by a yard and a public route through the scheme
The layout of the student accommodation on the upper floors is structured around the two new courtyards
Communal kitchen dining spaces and glazed corridors face inwards, overlooking the courtyards
Facade study model, courtyard elevation
Study bedrooms face the street giving each resident privacy from the communal life of the courtyard and views of the neighbourhood
Grand masonry facades of brick piers and arched precast concrete lintels recall the industrial past
These contrast with brightly coloured windows that reflect the creative community
The second quadrangle is a public yard and focus for Stour Space’s activities in a separate 5-storey building flanking the east side of the space
Stour Space’s industrial interiors open onto decks at each level

architects Henley Halebrown

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