At Studio Egret West, our landscape-led ethos continues to shape the transformation of Bow Common, where a once industrial site is being reimagined as a sociable, sustainable, and playful neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets.
We have now submitted and validated for the Reserved Matters Application for Phase 3, on behalf of St William Homes of the Berkeley Group Plc, marking the next milestone in this ambitious regeneration.
Phase 3 brings forward two new residential buildings connected by a podium garden, flexible ground-floor uses that activate Knapp Road, and a generous piece of the emerging central Common - including the sculpting landscape gardens, a new amphitheatre pavilion, and a bridge link uniting Phase 3 to the amphitheatre seating and upper terrace gardens of Phase 2. Together, these elements extend the spirit of Bow Common: places that invite activity, nurture connections to nature, and connect seamlessly into East London’s wider green networks.
Architecture and landscape come together to shape moments of delight - an architecture that embraces play and roots in its East London setting. The buildings reveal a richness of crafted detail and specificity with graded piers, variations in banding, plays of brick depth, finely textured metalwork, and shifting balconies — an architecture that is both distinctive and connected to place.
Bow Common will ultimately deliver a diverse mix of homes and an expansive network of public open space, but it is in these phased moments that the vision comes to life. With Phase 3, the Common becomes a place to gather, play, and grow.
