Barking Central

Architects: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Location: London, UK
Design Team: Redrow Regeneration Ltd, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham
Project Manager: Gill Associates
Area: 376.0 ft2
Year: 2010
Photographs: Timothy Soar

From the architect. Barking Central links commercial needs with civic engagement to breathe life into what had become something of a forgotten Thames Gateway backwater. A cluster of new buildings – a diverse mix of forms, heights, tones and textures – are positioned around the existing Barking Town Hall to capture a civic square and reintroduce historical routes. Phase one, completed in 2007, is a U-shaped block of apartments perching on a colonnade of v-shaped props.