Design District Head Office

Mar 7th, 2023

Nice quarter near The O2 Arena Very noisy in the closed glass hall, loud music and bad food
Feb 26th, 2023

Spectacular collection of buildings with a cool food hall at the heart of it.
Nov 27th, 2022

The Design District on the Greenwich Peninsula is a one-hectare riverside site with 16 new buildings that will provide an affordable base for creative businesses to trade, interact and grow. Eight emerging architectural practices from across Europe were each given a pair of buildings and asked to work blind, without knowing what the others were designing. The result is a provocative diversity of colour and form in a new neighbourhood devoted to design, art, tech, craft and music. In this kind of undefined and evolving context, devoid of urban references, the project defines two very pragmatic buildings industrial containers that maximize the flexibility of the interior and explore the use of basic construction systems. The project plays with the imaginary of an artists studio, emphasizing the use of light in a workspace defined by large windows, double-height rooms and a certain raw materiality. A1, located at the entrance, has a mirror-polish appearance that invites visitors from near and far, while D4, with its slim black facade, joins the activities of the central square. The appearance of the two volumes expresses the idea of creating a single project made up of a pair of figures, chromatically opposed, but in dialogue with each other. The chromatic differences provide two moments along the path through the district while evidently stemming from a unitary design logic. The reflective materiality dissolves the buildings into the future context and makes them participate in the life of the neighbourhood, absorbing and reflecting the light and colours of the surrounding environment as they change with the passage of the day and the seasons. As a whole, the design echoes the industrial history of the area and the charm of some iconic twentieth-century references while generating an abstract backdrop to the urban life of the Design District. Principal Architects: BAROZZI VEIGA I Fabrzio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga
Oct 20th, 2022

Jun 20th, 2022