Borough Yards, London Building Restorations, Southwark Mixed-Use Development, South London Building Project, Architecture Images
Borough Yards in Southwark, London
4 May 2022
Design: SPPARC
Location: Borough Market, Southwark, London, England, UK

Photos: Ed Reeve
Borough Yards, Greater London
Borough Yards is a place that resonates with the blended work/play lives of modern urbanites. Located next to the historic Borough Market, the development of new retail streets, cultural galleries and commercial office space is urbane and welcoming.

SPPARC has created an architectural typology which started from the principle that there should be pedestrian lanes within the block linking the river to the market through a series of connecting yard spaces and streets weaved through an impressive Victorian brick arched railway viaduct.
The £300 million mixed-use development completed in 2021, and the retail offering is set to open to the public in 2022. The high-quality public realm restores and reinvents the lost medieval street pattern of the area.

Restoring and rejuvenating an important part of south London?s Victorian railway heritage, the project re-purposes 8,500sqm of existing railway arches. Our design weaves together historic fabric with contemporary architecture and new public spaces to open up the site to its Bankside context and bring new pedestrian permeability and amenities to the area.

The once divisive Victorian brick railway viaducts have been opened up to allow ...