Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Ltd.

Barking Central

BARKING CENTRAL

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Barking Central
© Timothy Soar
Barking Central
© Timothy Soar

ARCHITECTS
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

LOCATION
London, UK

CATEGORY
Apartments

PHOTOGRAPHS
Timothy Soar

AREA
376.0 ft2

PROJECT YEAR
2010

Barking Central
© Timothy Soar

Text description provided by 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.

Barking Central
© Timothy Soar
Barking Central
© Timothy Soar
Barking Central
© Timothy Soar

Phase one, completed in 2007, is a U-shaped block of apartments perching on a colonnade of v-shaped props.The apartments sit above the new Barking Learning Centre that has been reinvented out of an aging public library.

Phase two, completed in 2010, comprises five more buildings; three residential blocks, a 66-bed hotel and a bicycle shed for 250 bikes.

The Lemonade Building, the tallest of the residential towers at 17-storeys, signposts the project from the A13 and beyond. Drawing inspiration from the site’s former R Whites factory and the leaf tones of the central arboretum

Barking Central
© Timothy Soar
Barking Central
© Timothy Soar

The overall colour scheme not only binds together the cluster of buildings but emphasises, the protruding balconies and recessed loggias.

The project is the result of a drawn-out dance between public and private interests and stands as a lived-in symbol of the wider-scale regeneration of the area.


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North Elevation
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West Elevation
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South Elevation


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Site Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Floor Plan
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Elevation & Floor Plan
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Elevation & Floor Plan

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Ltd.
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Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Ltd.
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