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post updated 9 March 2026

19 February 2026
Leathermarket Street mixed-use development
Architects: dMFK Architects

image : dMFK Architects

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Southwark Buildings News in 2025, arranged chronologically:

20 May 2025
Japanese style Southwark home
Design: Takero Shimazaki Architects

photo : Anton Gorlenko

12 May 2025
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Design: Bennetts Associates Architects

photo © Jack Hobhouse

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Southwark Buildings News in 2024

Key Architectural Developments in South London, England, United Kingdom.

Southwark Architecture News in 2024, chronological:

27 November 2024
182-202 Walworth Road Southwark
Design: Howells

image courtesy of Howells and Vivid Vision
Fabrix has secured unanimous approval for planning consent on the transformation of 182-202 Walworth Road in the London Borough of Southwark. The scheme will breathe new life into a prominent, largely derelict 1980s office building, through a sustainable, mixed-use, PBSA-led scheme that puts the area’s diverse communities at its heart.

30 March 2024
Holiday Inn Express Southwark Hotel Building
Design: Studio Moren architects

image : Rockhunter
Studio Moren has won planning permission for a seven-storey accommodation building extension. The extension will be the third undertaken at the property by Studio Moren and will add accommodation for hotel guests and create an additional F&B offering.

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Southwark Building News

Southwark Architecture, chronological:

4 May 2023
Elephant & Castle student residence, Southwark, Tiverton Street, Elephant & Castle
Design: Maccreanor Lavington architects

image courtesy of architects practice
Planning permission has been granted to Alumno for the construction of high-quality purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Elephant and Castle, part of the London Borough of Southwark.

31 Oct 2022
Art-Invest Real Estate’s Canada Water Dockside, Southwark, London SE16
Design: HWKN

image : Art-Invest Real Estate
Art-Invest Real Estate UK (Art-Invest) is pleased to reveal that HWKN Architecture (HWKN), led by Matthias Hollwich, as the designer for one of the three buildings at Canada Water Dockside, its 4.5-acre development that is set to become the commercial quarter at the heart of the wider Canada Water regeneration area.

5 Oct 2022
British Land’s Canada Water Southwark
Design: Conran and Partners

photo : Jacob Walters and British Land
International design and architecture practice, Conran and Partners has been appointed by British Land to create and design ‘timeless sustainability’ interiors for London’s newest green destination, Canada Water.

26 June 2022
LB Southwark SILS3 Peckham
Design: Tim Ronalds Architects

photo : Jim Stephenson
The LB Southwark SILS3 Peckham, South London is one of the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture. It is a Pupil Referral Unit for children who have typically been excluded from school. Its purpose is to give students time out from mainstream education before they are ready to return.

15 Feb 2022
Centrepoint ILP Peckham: Reuben House
Build: M-AR

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10 Nov 2021
Peckham Glass Box, Southwark Home
Design: Unagru Architecture Urbanism

photo : Attilio Fiumarella

14 Sep 2021
95 Peckham Road, Southwark housing
Design: Peter Barber Architects

photo © Morley von Sternberg

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20 Aug 2018
Benbow Yard Home in Southwark Property
Design: FORMstudio, Architects

photo © Bruce Hemming

More contemporary Southwark Buildings on e-architect soon.

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Southwark Buildings Archive 2006 – 2013

9 Oct 2013
The Old Vic Building, The Cut
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.

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

picture from architects
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

12 Mar 2013
Newlands School Southwark
Design: Wright & Wright Architects

photo : James Brittain
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.

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20 July 2011
King’s Reach Tower
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

image from architects
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.

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Southwark Architecture

Recent Southwark Building Designs, alphabetical:

20 Blackfriars
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Wilkinson Eyre Architects

image from architect
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

image from Beetham Organisation
One Blackfriars Road 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 (since renamed as RSHP)
44 storeys : for First Base

Friendship House
2005
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard

Globe Theatre, Bankside

photo © webbaviation
Globe Theatre

IPC Building
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Allies & Morrison

King’s Reach Tower Redevelopment
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make Architects

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

Lantern Apartments, Mint Street Park, Borough
2007
KMK Architects

Lavington Street Project
Allies and Morrison

image from architect
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

Tabard Square – housing tower
2007
Rolfe Judd Architects

Temporary Southwark Council offices
2007
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

Young Vic Theatre Redevelopment, London, England : Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist
2006
Haworth Tompkins Architects

photo © Adrian Welch
Young Vic Theatre