Reimagining Butler?s Wharf London Festival of Architecture 2020 News, LFA Design
Reimagining Butler?s Wharf London
25 June 2020
Reimagining Butler?s Wharf London Festival of Architecture 2020
Reimagining Butler?s Wharf
The London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Butler?s Wharf Riverside Trust (BWRT) have launched a new design competition inviting architects, landscape architects, designers and artists to enhance the riverside promenade at Butler?s Wharf.
The competition seeks design solutions that will encourage visitors and residents to use and cherish one of London?s most popular riverside spaces. The winning design will be an imaginative response to the site, connecting users to the space, its surrounding river and buildings, and to the site?s rich maritime and industrial heritage.
Butler?s Wharf photos © Steven Ehrlich
The Butler?s Wharf site, known locally as ?the jetty?, comprises a concrete pier upon the River Thames, and supports the Thames Path running from St Saviour?s Dock and the former Design Museum building towards Tower Bridge. It is overlooked by the largest collection of preserved Victorian warehouses in London, which were transformed by Sir Terence Conran in the 1980s into a thriving residential neighbourhood with a string of hugely popular restaurants, pubs and cafes opening onto the pier.

Despite its popularity, the riverside promenade at Butler?s Wharf lacks design coherence and a sense of place. The space was completely overlooked when the site wa...