Canary Riverside

DP9 has been involved in many elements of the Canary Wharf development, which currently includes an 86-acre estate, with more than 1,115,000sq.m of offices, apartments, hotels and retail space. The Canary Riverside project occupies a key site linking Westferry Circus to the river. An earlier scheme dating from 2000 and commissioned by Pidemco Land contained a mix of uses: offices, residential, retail and leisure. The first phase of this scheme was constructed on land to the north of Westferry Circus.

Rogers Stirk Harbour was subsequently asked to produce designs for an office development on the remainder of the site, to the south of the Circus. The current proposals, granted planning consent in 2007, provide for offices in parallel strips around linear service cores. Large trading floors link the twin towers at the lower level and a public route is provided through the site. Strongly modelled, the towers incorporate fixed external louvres to reduce solar gain. Only a little less tall than Cesar Pelli's landmark 1 Canada Square, they form an architecturally distinguished addition to a leading centre of global business.