New London Architecture

Chetwoods

Chetwoods

Chetwoods is an award-winning architectural practice founded by Laurie Chetwood in 1988. We have studios in London, Birmingham and Hamburg.
 
We stand for a 360-degree approach to design that incorporates innovation, sustainability & wellbeing, and digital transformation. These elements of our brand – Studio, Thrive and Works – are used to guide and inform the holistic approach of our teams to every project, and to how we run our business and offices. 
 
We have a long-established reputation for pushing the boundaries for innovative sustainable design in the retail, residential, commercial and logistics sectors, working with our clients to reduce the impact of the buildings we design. In 2020 we successfully delivered the first building verified as Net Zero Carbon for construction (whole life embodied carbon). 
 
In London we have been developing new Industrial Intensification templates based around multi-storey warehouses and mixed-use urban logistics on London’s SIL sites in response to the challenges facing retail, residential & logistics. We have also conducted studies for the GLA on splitting up and tailoring a masterplan to suit its component communities, layering in new uses and co-locations. 
 
We are working on the adaptive re-use and repurposing of existing buildings and brownfield sites including underground spaces such as basements and car parks, and what the High Street of the future could look like.  We were commissioned to bring retail into industrial in the design of the new combined City of London Markets facility on the former Barking Reach Power Station in Dagenham Dock.
 
Our work on infrastructure includes a new generation of underground metro stations in Chengdu, China.  A new typology goes beyond functional requirements to change people’s expectations of what metro stations can offer as spaces that provoke emotions, not merely as points of transit. 
 
Our Royal Academy competition-winning Well-line proposal repurposed London’s longest brownfield site - the Mail Rail Line that runs for six miles from Paddington to Whitechapel - into a new high-tech logistics supply line to sustain the city by delivering goods and services from below.

Chetwoods

Contact Details

Chetwoods Architects
12–13 Clerkenwell Green
London
EC1R 0QJ

Tel: +44 (0)207 490 2400
Email: contact@chetwoods.com
Web: www.chetwoods.com

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Cory Energy River Road Barking

Cory Energy River Road Barking

Planning Granted

Refurbishing industrial waste buildings at Safeguarded Wharves and Waste Site as part of the world’s largest waste decarbonisation project, shifting to road-to-river operations.

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Firestone LDN | A West Cross Development

Firestone LDN | A West Cross Development

Planning Granted

An Art Deco inspired flexible distribution, logistics and warehouse scheme, providing BREEAM Excellent rated intensification of industrial uses for the iconic Firestone site in Brentford.

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SEGRO Park Wapping

SEGRO Park Wapping

Planning Granted

Regeneration of a brownfield site using circular economy principles to deliver flexible, modern and lower-carbon industrial and office space, neighbourhood amenity and biodiversity net gain.

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GLP G-Park London Stratford

GLP G-Park London Stratford

Proposed

An urban logistics scheme intensifying an existing site for flexible use, creating a community-focused, exemplar development pending planning approval.

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Bloom Greenwich

Bloom Greenwich

Under Construction

Multi-tenanted ultra-urban 33,000 sqft GIA sustainable warehouse with flexible space, aligned with EU Taxonomies of Paris, of 5 units with 40% first floor space on an under-utilised SIL site

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Bloom Brixton

Bloom Brixton

Built

Multi-storey ultra-urban 31,500sqft GIA warehouse with flexible space for traditional and modern industrial and logistics occupiers, designed to maximise sustainability and energy efficiency

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Urban Oasis, award-winning installation

Urban Oasis, award-winning installation

Built

An award-winning environmental installation designed to demonstrate sustainable energy production within an oasis. It has been exhibited around London, including Clerkenwell Green.

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RACS Redevelopment, Upper Tooting Road

RACS Redevelopment, Upper Tooting Road

Built

Mixed-use commercial, hotel and residential development on Tooting High Street that regenerates the local area while retaining and refurbishing the historic 1930s Art Deco facade of the RACS building.

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A Circular Lifestyle

A Circular Lifestyle

Proposed

Laurie Chetwood, Chairman of Chetwoods, is developing the first UK architectural project which displays a ‘Circular Lifestyle’. The philosophy has three elements - social, ecological and material

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Salutation Works

Salutation Works

Proposed

Regenerative design/circular economy in multi-storey mixed workspace/industrial concept repurposing an existing building into adaptable space that explores and showcases modern methods of construction

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City of London Markets

City of London Markets

Planning Granted

City of London Corporation plans to co-locate London’s historic wholesale markets to purpose-built facilities at Dagenham Dock, designed by Chetwoods.

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Didcot Quarter

Didcot Quarter

Built

Didcot Quarter repurposed a brownfield site next to the former Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire into a high-spec industrial complex which puts employee health and wellbeing at its heart.

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Bugsby's Way

Bugsby's Way

Proposed

Bugsby's Way is a development of a multi-level industrial/logistics scheme with a range of unit sizes/types, including SME space on a 3.38 acre industrial site on the Greenwich Peninsula.

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The Well-Line

The Well-Line

Proposed

The Well-line addresses London’s increasingly urgent pollution and congestion problems. It will convert the disused underground Post Office Railway – London's

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Project Opus

Project Opus

Proposed

A fully circular scheme that aims to achieve Net Zero Carbon without offsetting and seeks to enhance the surrounding environment and improve the health and wellbeing of its occupants.

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GLP G-Park Doncaster, Mammoth 602

GLP G-Park Doncaster, Mammoth 602

Built

The largest and most sustainable logistics building in the North of England with a best-in-class specification, constructed as net-zero carbon in line with the UKGBC framework.

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GLP Magnitude 314, Magna Park, Milton Keynes

GLP Magnitude 314, Magna Park, Milton Keynes

Built

On completion in 2020 Magnitude 314 was confirmed as the world’s first Net Zero Carbon for Construction verified building in line with the UKGBC framework.

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Baytree Dunstable

Baytree Dunstable

Built

World first WELL Standard pilot industrial scheme and Building Project of the Year designed with flexibility for future change, with technology enabled features and focus on user health and wellbeing.

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Baytree Fenny Lock Milton Keynes

Baytree Fenny Lock Milton Keynes

Built

The first logistics/industrial project to incorporate a Digital Twin approach to its design and building management utilising the Baytree Sensor Suite as part of the base build specification.

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U+I Morden Wharf

U+I Morden Wharf

Planning Granted

A milestone mixed-use project integrating industrial logistics with residential, workspaces and retail and community spaces on one of the last strategic sites on the Greenwich Peninsula.

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Morden Wharf

Morden Wharf

Proposed

Morden Wharf is being created by regeneration specialist U+I in collaboration with acclaimed Dutch architecture firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), on Greenwich Peninsula.

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