The Market Building
Location
London, UK
Client
Canary Wharf Contractors Limited
Gross Floor Area m²
29,000
Status
Under Construction
The Market Building forms the centrepiece of Canary Wharf’s new urban quarter: Wood Wharf. The 14-storey building accommodates a rich mix of uses: collaborative workspace at the heart of the building is set between a grand public retail market at its base and a new skybar and restaurant at its top.
The Market Building integrates office and public space. Its architecture is shaped by innovative thinking about the future of the workplace. How to foster collaboration? How to plan for change and adaptation? How to promote health and well-being?
The office accommodation marks a break with corporate orthodoxy. Structure and services are exposed and the external diagrid allows connections to be opened between individual floors.
The office accommodation is efficiently planned to provide flexible, well-lit floor plates that accommodate multiple sub-tenancies. The building structure and services are expressed creating a robust backdrop to a variety of potential fitout approaches. The building’s external diagrid structure frees the core and interior from providing primary lateral stability. This in turn affords great flexibility in allowing connections to be created between adjacent floors.
The design promotes healthy building practice with day-lit stairs encourage their use in preference to lifts. Balconies on the south facade provide external amenity space and intelligent facade and systems design delivers environmentally efficient internal comfort. Occupiers have a high level of individual control.
The building promotes health and wellbeing through generous daylighting, a high level of individual control, external amenity spaces for each floor and day-lit stairs which encourage their use in preference to the lifts.
The day-lit stairs encourage their use in preference to lifts. Balconies on the south facade provide external amenity space and intelligent facade and systems design delivers environmentally efficient internal comfort. Occupiers have a high level of individual control.
The office accommodation marks a break with corporate orthodoxy. Structure and services are exposed and the external diagrid allows connections to be opened between individual floors.
The office accommodation is efficiently planned to provide flexible, well-lit floor plates that accommodate multiple sub-tenancies. The building structure and services are expressed creating a robust backdrop to a variety of potential fitout approaches. The building’s external diagrid structure frees the core and interior from providing primary lateral stability. This in turn affords great flexibility in allowing connections to be created between adjacent floors.
The design promotes healthy building practice with day-lit stairs encourage their use in preference to lifts. Balconies on the south facade provide external amenity space and intelligent facade and systems design delivers environmentally efficient internal comfort. Occupiers have a high level of individual control.
The building promotes health and wellbeing through generous daylighting, a high level of individual control, external amenity spaces for each floor and day-lit stairs which encourage their use in preference to the lifts.
The day-lit stairs encourage their use in preference to lifts. Balconies on the south facade provide external amenity space and intelligent facade and systems design delivers environmentally efficient internal comfort. Occupiers have a high level of individual control.
