Reimagining Butler?s Wharf London Festival of Architecture 2020 News, LFA Design
Reimagining Butler?s Wharf London Winner
3 Dec 2020
The Tide Line ? winning concept for Reimagining Butler?s Wharf competition revealed
3rd of December 2020 – The Tide Line ? an evocative landscape designed by Ludwig Willis Architects with Structure Workshop and Howard Miller Landscape and Design ? has been revealed as the winning concept in the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Butler?s Wharf Riverside Trust?s ?Reimagining Butler?s Wharf? competition.

The competition is a key stage towards the long-term transformation of Butler?s Wharf, Shad Thames – one of London?s most popular riverside spaces. The LFA and Butler?s Wharf Riverside Trust invited architects, landscape architects, designers and artists to consider how to unlock the site?s waterfront potential as an imaginative and engaging space for all, bringing visitors, Londoners and the local community back together on this historic jetty.
The Tide Line is inspired by the edge of the River Thames at Butler?s Wharf, where layers of ecology, history and access are revealed and concealed by the daily rhythms of the tide. The team have reimagined the jetty as a riparian landscape tracing along the mean low tide mark: watermen?s stairs become places of vantage and orientation, while masts placed along the length of the jetty recall its heritage and act as armatures for wayfinding and lighting. Along the deck, planters are f...