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Morden Wharf Development in Greenwich
10 Sep 2021
Design: OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Location: Greenwich Peninsula, London, England, UK

Morden Wharf Development, Greenwich
The Royal borough of Greenwich?s Planning Committee has granted planning consent for OMA?s mixed use development on London?s Greenwich Peninsula at Morden Wharf, a 2.4-hectare brownfield site located equidistant from historic Greenwich and the millennial O2 Arena.

OMA?s scheme for developer U+I follows a years-long design and consultation process. Key to its development is maximizing the potential of the riverfront for public use and access. The site?s industrial past is reflected in the proposed mix of uses, balancing new residential development with employment and community uses. The existing warehouse on the site is preserved and will house small enterprises and creative businesses. Along the Thames? edge will sit Morden Park, a 1.6-hectare public park, harkening back to the site?s marshland beginnings.
Reinier de Graaf, OMA Partner: ?Our proposition for Morden Wharf is one with little ego, a surrender to the existing context that aims to reconcile the past with the future. Architecture doesn?t exist for its own sake but to frame the public space in-between.?

Carol Patterson, Director-in-Charge: ?Designed pre-pandemic, an immediately accessible riverfront public park and renov...