Hawley Wharf transforms an underused piece of city in Camden Town into a busy mixed-use development, enhancing the area’s strong identity and creating a vibrant new quarter for the benefit of the local community, users and visitors alike. 

The masterplan weaves a welcoming and accessible pedestrian public realm around a junction of road, rail and canal, reconnecting a constrained site back into Camden Town. This resulted in a series of residential buildings with irregular geometries, a variety of housing typologies and bespoke layouts: 100 apartment types across 195 homes. 

The railway viaducts that activate the centre of the site have been refurbished, providing thirty-two retail and light industrial units. Two of the three residential buildings contain retail and office uses at ground and basement levels and an incubator area on the first-floor taps into Camden’s support of developing businesses.

The new flexible Market Buildings offer market space, light industrial space, offices, rooftop restaurants and public roof terraces. The four-storeys of partially enclosed market space follow the tradition of outdoor market spaces, take part in the vibrant local area and continue its famous heritage. Five steel bridges at different levels, allow the public to flow between buildings and create a dynamic public area below. 

A palette of warm, coloured brick and terracotta is graded across the site, referencing the local context with differences in tone and detailing distinguishing the buildings.