WESTFERRY PRINTWORKS
LONDON, UK
Client Northern & Shell
Facility
Residential-led Mixed-use Masterplan
Size 6.1ha
Development Area
Residential and commercial use 185,000sqm
https://www.plparchitecture.com/westferry-printworks.html
Nestled deep in the historic industrial heart the Isle of Dogs, the former Westferry Printworks site presents an exciting and highly contemporary urban challenge. Originally a timber and grain yard, the site fronts onto the Millwall Outer Dock, designed by Sir John Fuller and constructed by John Aird & Co in 1868. The former printworks, built in the mid-1980s, had been operated by the Northern & Shell group until 2011 when the activities relocated to a media hub in Luton.
https://www.plparchitecture.com/westferry-printworks.html
https://unhabitat.org/stand-up-for-public-space-luisa-bravo
SYNOPSIS
Issues which the lecture addresses
Public space is more and more an emerging issue in our contemporary societies. In the research and academia discourse, we are often referring to exempla from the so-called global West or global North, thus imposing an oversimplified view of public space design, management and use, relating to successful projects and celebrating architects and urban designers. Those exempla are standing like relevant episodes in the urban context, but in some cases do not address the peculiarity and diversity of cities, societies and spaces, especially in those contexts where public space is mostly appropriated by informal and spontaneous practices: sometimes even a good design could not be able to create a proper public space for community life.
The notion and the approach to public space still needs a deep clarification, for scholars, architects, urban designers and city managers, mainly in the process of analysis and understanding of its complex evolving nature, especially from a bottom-up and user-oriented perspective related to everyday life.
RLD has been involved in hundreds of transactions in the Docklands property market totalling over 3 million square feet of property. RLD has expertise in all aspects of property investment, management and development with experience of many different pro
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Music Credits.
Parisienne Walkways- Gary Moore @ Ronnie Scotts 19th Oct 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcVaJ6FCO_E
Parisien Walkways by Gary Moore and Greg Lake.The band, who rocked the packed club, included The Who legend, Roger Daltrey, on lead vocals, guitar pioneers Russ Ballard and Greg Lake (Emerson Lake & Palmer), Procol Harums Gary Brooker MBE, Simon Townshend (Pete Townshends brother) on rhythm guitar, Kinks saxophonist Nick Newall, pop singer Sam Brown on backing vocals and Zoot Money on keyboards and musical direction, with Richard Desmond on drums. The set list for the gig, which raised in excess of £350,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust, included The Who classics Pinball Wizard, I Cant Explain, The Kids are Alright and My Generation The set list for the gig, which raised in excess of £350,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust, included The Who classics Pinball Wizard, I Cant Explain, The Kids are Alright and My Generation
Stand By Me - Roger Daltrey & Gary Moore @Ronnie Scotts 19th Oct 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qss1ShjDnVY
Richard Desmond on drums at the RTS Cambridge Convention
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7RbBiXUXp4
