From Colander Associates, the competition organisers:
''A diverse and innovative group of architects and designers, with UK and international expertise, have made the shortlist to potentially become strategic masterplanners for the £8bn Thamesmead Waterfront development in southeast London.
They will now enter the final phase of a competition designed to appoint strategic masterplanners with the visionary and strategic ability to help shape an enormous new neighbourhood, which covers 100 hectares and is within thirty minutes of central London. If selected they will work alongside Peabody and Lendlease who have entered into a Joint Venture to plan and deliver a project that will create the brand new town centre, which will be designed to meet the challenges of the post-pandemic world.''
Our team, pictured below, sees Studio Egret West working 50/50 with fellow urban designers, architects and landscape architects COBE, a Danish practice very much at the forefront of Copenhagen’s evolution as one of the most sustainable cities in the world. We are also joined by the AJ 40 under 40 winners Je Ahn's Studio Weave and Jonathan Hagos’ Freehaus Design, with Dulwich Pavilion-designer Yinka Ilori Studio.
Our team will also benefit from the knowledge of Dark Matter Labs, AKTII, HIlson Moran and Biomatrix Water.
