Boord Street

At the heart of Greenwich Peninsula, 352 homes marks a point of transition between our masterplan to the east where an emerging piece of city is taking shape, and the active wharf to the west. Having received planning consent, the trio of buildings have interlocking forms stepping down from 26 storeys along Millenium Way, to 21 and 9 storeys towards the wharf; expressing an increasing informality with each step. Marsh Square, a new south-facing public space provides an entrance court for a nursery and leads to a light-filled residents’ garden at the heart of this family of buildings.

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At Boord Street, informal and robust, brown brick ‘wharf’ buildings with pitched roofs, giant orders and strong gables act as a counterpoint to more regular, punched pale-brick buildings and delicate metalwork.

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Context Plan

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A communal garden at podium level provides residents with a green space for recreation.

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The lively, tree-lined boulevard of Millenium Way will serve as key route, connecting the site into the wider peninsula.

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A sketch shows the interlocking forms stepped of the trio of residential buildings at Boord Street.

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The orientation of the gabled wharf buildings are used to provide a hierarchy which in turn informs wayfinding.

City: London
Use: Housing
Client: Fairview Homes
Status: Current
Size: 35000 sqm GEA
Units: 352
Collaborators: Structure: RSK
Landscape: Exterior Architecture
Sustainability: QuinnRoss
Daylight/Sunlight: eb7
Fire: Ashton Fire
Refuse: Kanect
Townscape: Iceni
Transport: Mott Macdonald
Student accommodation: ACA Studios
Self-storage unit and light-industrial workspace: ThreeSixty Architecture