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Key Architectural Developments in South London, England, UK

post updated 13 May 2023

Southwark Building News

Southwark Architecture arranged chronologically:

The Old Vic Building, The Cut – 9 Oct 2013
Architect: Bennetts Associates

photograph : Matt Humphrey
The Old Vic is submitting a planning application for a restoration and redevelopment project in order to sustain the 195 year old London landmark for the next generation of theatre-goers, creative talent, local community and the general public. The Old Vic has appointed award-winning architects Bennetts Associates to devise a restoration scheme, which will be submitted for planning permission to Lambeth Council in November.

Ludgate House & Sampson Houses Building Development – 9 Oct 2013
Architect: PLP Architecture

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The regeneration project will create a destination neighbourhood with around 490 new homes, as well as 3,700 jobs which represents a c.1,450 increase in new full time or equivalent jobs compared to what the current buildings provide. The development will comprise 1.4 million sq ft of total floor space, including 940,000 sq ft of residential, 450,000 sq ft of new offices, 35,000 sq ft of new public open spaces, 25,000 sq ft of retail and 18,500 sq ft of space for cultural use.

Photos from 29 Apr 2013:

Borough Market building:

photos © Adrian Welch

Jerwood Space:

photo © Adrian Welch

Newlands School, Southwark, south London, UK
Design: Wright & Wright Architects

photo : James Brittain
Southwark School Building – 12 Mar 2013
Special Educational Needs School in Southwark: Wright & Wright Architects has completed Newlands School, a 3175 sq m new-build Special Educational Needs (SEN) school that is specifically designed for children with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD). Located in the London Borough of Southwark, Newlands School is one of the last projects to be built through the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. The building was delivered by the Local Education Partnership ‘4 Futures’, a joint venture comprising Southwark Council, Balfour Beatty Education and Building Schools for the Future Investments (BSFi).

King’s Reach Tower
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

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King’s Reach Tower
International architecture firm, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is pleased to announce that planning consent has been granted for its scheme for the redevelopment of King’s Reach Tower on London’s South Bank for developer CIT Group. KPF’s design for King’s Reach retains and transforms the existing 1970s tower and T-shaped podium building, originally designed by Richard Seifert, to provide a mixed-use development incorporating residential, retail, office accommodation, and an enhanced public realm.

Southwark Architecture

Recent Southwark Building Designs, alphabetical:

20 Blackfriars
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Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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20 Blackfriars

65 Hopton Street, Bankside
2006
CZWG

photo © Nick Weall
65 Hopton Street

160 Tooley St
2008
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

photograph © Tim Soar
160 Tooley St

Bankside 1,2 & 3 – towers, Southwark Street, Bankside, south London
2008
Allies & Morrison

photo © Adrian Welch
Bankside 123

BFI IMAX
1999
Avery Associates Architects

photo © Adrian Welch
South Bank Imax

Number One Blackfriars Road
2008-
Ian Simpson Architects

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Southwark Building

Daily Express Building

photo © Nick Weall
Daily Express Building

Elephant & Castle Development – approx. £1.5bn regeneration

Elephant & Castle Tower + Southwark Playhouse Theatre
2007-
Rogers Stirk + Harbour
44 storeys : for First Base

Friendship House
2005
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard

Globe Theatre, Bankside

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Globe Theatre

IPC Building
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Allies & Morrison

King’s Reach Tower redevelopment
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make

photo © Nick Weall
For Capital & Counties, orig. 34 storeys

Lantern Apartments, Mint Street Park, Borough
2007
KMK Architects

Lavington Street Project
Allies and Morrison

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Lavington Street Building

Michael Faraday Community School
2008-
SMC Alsop
Southwark School Building

Neighbourhood Centre, South Bank
2007
Haworth Tompkins Architects
£9.4m
For Coin Street Community Builders

Palestra
2006
Alsop Architects

photo © Adrian Welch
Palestra – RIBA Awards 2007 : RIBA National Award 2007

Palm Housing Co-operative housing, Broadwall, Waterloo, SE1
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Lifschutz Davidson
For Coin Street Secondary Housing Co-operative
Civic Trust Awards 1996: Best Housing Development

185 Park Street, Bankside
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Eric Parry Architects
24 storeys

St Mary’s Churchyard Redevelopment
2008
Landscape architects: Martha Schwartz Partners
New public space & urban park: part of Elephant & Castle Regeneration Programme

Southwark Cathedral

photographs © Adrian Welch

Southwark Cathedral Millennium Project, London SE1
2002
Richard Griffiths Architects

Southwark Street Building

photograph © Adrian Welch

Southwark Tube Station – Jubilee Line Undeground Station
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MacCormac Jamieson Prichard

photograph © Adrian Welch

Stamford Street building

photo © Nick Weall
Neoclassical portico on south side of Stamford Street Just west of Hatfields and south of Kings Reach Tower