Every Side of Life and London Royal Wharf brings together everything that’s best about London: large and small, local and regional, classic and contemporary.

Here, the independent shops on the high street will buzz and bustle just minutes from the financial powerhouse of Canary Wharf. Here, people will be able to stroll along the peaceful Riverside Walk, or explore more of the exciting east, so recently energised by the 2012 Olympics. The wealth of interconnecting green spaces, and the lively mosaic of shops, cafés, bars and restaurants, will form a backdrop to the true heart of Royal Wharf: over 3,300 beautiful, spacious homes spread across the entire 40 acre site. Homes that, while capturing the best of contemporary style, are directly inspired by the traditional Georgian estates of central London.

This is Royal Wharf: a neighbourhood forging the way for the most exciting new chapter in London’s history. A place to live, to settle, to raise families. A place to discover every side of life in the world’s capital city – and to create an entirely new one.

London has often been described as a ‘city of villages’. Districts like Belgravia, Fitzrovia, Mayfair and Bloomsbury have characters all of their own. Like those traditional great estates, Royal Wharf will be as much a local neighbourhood as a slice of the capital.

Local Life in the World’s Capital City

Just minutes from Canary Wharf, and less than half an hour from Oxford Street, this will be a rich, textured neighbourhood, focused around a lively central high street, a broad market square and a rolling riverside park. Criss-crossed with inviting side-streets and charming mews, Royal Wharf will also be peppered with public squares and gardens, modelled on the greatest traditions of London estates.

This will be a place where parents can drop their children at school, then stroll home – stopping off at the local bakery and greengrocer for a few essentials. A place to picnic in the park at weekends, catch up with neighbours at a favourite café, or amble along almost a full kilometre of beautifully planted riverside walk. It will be a friendly, even intimate, local neighbourhood. A place to call home.

A Beautiful New Riverside Neighbourhood for London

Classic London Made New The masterplan and architecture of Royal Wharf is inspired by the classic great estates of London – most famously forged in the Georgian and Victorian eras.

Over the past two years, we have researched famous districts like Belgravia, Bayswater and Fitzrovia. The numbers and proportions of public squares, the hierarchy of buildings, the arrangement of streets – every detail has been investigated to reveal what makes these estates so enduringly desirable. That insight has informed the streetscape and architecture throughout Royal Wharf. It has created a vision rooted in the classic character of London, and expressed in dramatic contemporary style. This will be the capital’s newest great estate. A district designed to endure.

Royal Wharf will be at once distinctively its own, and unmistakably part of London The diversity of architecture is central to that character. This is no monolithic collection of identical blocks. By combining a number of architectural practices, including some which have won competitions to create their buildings here, Royal Wharf will present a rich texture of finishes and styles. This range of styles is unified by a sensitive masterplan, which provides guiding principles for layout, materials and building heights across the site. Informed by this plan, individual buildings can express their own personalities as well as integrating seamlessly into the whole. Importantly, the mix of homes, shops and other amenities will make for a lively and varied ground level. With both apartments and townhouses throughout the site, many homes will have front doors leading onto the street. People will come and go, meet and chat, linger at their doors: the interactions that make a place a community.

Drawing on the industrial materials of docks and warehouses, the proportions and layout of grand Georgian estates, and bold contemporary styling, Royal Wharf will be at once distinctively its own, and unmistakably part of London.

40 acres of riverside land, at the epicentre of London’s blossoming east – creates an unrivalled opportunity

A Character All of its Own

Smaller city developments, surrounded by the shifting urban landscape, often struggle to maintain distinctive identities. The size of Royal Wharf and its position on the river, bordered by wonderful parkland, allows it to establish a character of its own. A character that can draw deeply on the wider city, without being overwhelmed by it.

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