New London Architecture

LDA Design

LDA Design

We approach design as a social endeavour. Our origins lie in landscape architecture, and the origin of ‘landscape’ is to create a place where people belong. Knowing how landscape connects people and place, and how people use space, is central to the work of our urban designers, town planners and environmental planners.
Landscape-led design is in demand because it delivers the most vibrant places. We think ‘First, life’ whether the project is a park, a port, estate renewal or a new urban district. In turbulent times, we all need places that support communities, encourage enterprise and reinforce identity.
We are working for developers, landowners, communities, universities and government. We led the masterplanning of the London 2012 Olympic Park and since then, great projects include Camden’s public realm, Battersea Power Station, University College London East, and Here East in Stratford.

LDA Design

Contact Details

LDA Design
New Fetter Place 
8-10 New Fetter Lane
London, EC4A 1AZ
Tel: 020 7467 1470

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Lee Valley Ice Centre

Lee Valley Ice Centre

Built

a project combining two Olympic-sized ice rinks, a gym, studios, café and community space to create the UK’s most sustainable ice centre, alongside a sensitive £1.5m landscape transformation.

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Princes Circus

Princes Circus

Built

This is a new public square created by reclaiming a section of Shaftesbury Avenue and Bloomsbury Street. It is beautifully lit and made special by generous seating and woodland planting.

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Union Terrace Gardens

Union Terrace Gardens

Built

The restoration of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens is one of the UK’s most important recent park regenerations. It has involved finding new purpose while strengthening its existing charm.

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West End Project

West End Project

Built

West End Project is Camden Council’s £35m investment to transform public realm around Tottenham Court Road, bringing nature in, improving air quality and strengthening climate resilience.

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Burgess Park Sports Pavilion

Burgess Park Sports Pavilion

Under Construction

Burgess Park Sports Pavilion is part of a wider masterplan by the Council to improve the usability of park amenities, while creating a distinctive identity.

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Battersea Power Station Public Realm

Battersea Power Station Public Realm

Built

In its first year, Battersea Power Station has attracted 11 million visitors. Its inviting landscape softens the monumental architecture and creates a place for people and for nature.

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Faraday House, Battersea Power Station

Faraday House, Battersea Power Station

Built

113 apartments on a linear site that shift in response to the curve of the train tracks. This eight-storey building is clad in gold copper alloy with full height windows framing views of the Thames.

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Strand Aldwych

Strand Aldwych

Built

Strand Aldwych reclaims a heavily polluted gyratory creating a car-free place for people and nature. The project has freed St Mary le Strand church and created a unique cultural landscape.

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Olympia Way

Olympia Way

Planning Granted

Olympia Way will be transformed from a heavily trafficked access route to a pedestrian-friendly public realm which encourages cycling and seamlessly connects to the wider public transport network.

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Olympia Public Realm

Olympia Public Realm

Under Construction

The public realm for Olympia is critical to the success of the site’s redevelopment. It will be beautiful, welcoming and inclusive, in a part of London which is short of open spaces and green spaces.

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Samovar Space

Samovar Space

Built

Samovar Space is a lively, public, meantime place made for and by the young people of Brent. At the foot of Wembley Stadium, it is the result of LSE's Apprenticeship in City Design funded by Quintain.

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James Riley Point

James Riley Point

Under Construction

The refurbishment of James Riley Point (JRP) reinvents this 23-storey vacant residential tower set within a triangular site of poorly structured landscape.

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Lamb's Passage

Lamb's Passage

Planning Granted

Lamb's Passage provides 7 storeys of high-quality new office accommodation, whilst incorporating and re-purposing the existing Grade II vaults in the basement.

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Reimagining Great Ormond Street

Reimagining Great Ormond Street

Proposed

By reimagining Great Ormond Street, we can create London’s healthiest, greenest, most child friendly hospital street which better serves patients, staff, visitors and the wider community.

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Alfred Place Gardens

Alfred Place Gardens

Built

Alfred Place was an unremarkable, car-dominated London back street. Now it is a healthy, green oasis. The first park in the area for 25 years, it reclaims the street for people and for...

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Aberfeldy Village Public Realm

Aberfeldy Village Public Realm

Proposed

Redevelopment of Aberfeldy and Nairn Street Estates will create a pioneering, child-friendly neighbourhood with new public realm supporting better connectivity and active lifestyles.

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St Christopher's CARE

St Christopher's CARE

Built

The Centre for Awareness and Response to End of Life radically expands St Christopher’s ability to disseminate best practice in end of life care both locally and globally.

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Public Realm at Battersea Power Station

Public Realm at Battersea Power Station

Under Construction

Battersea Power Station is at the heart of a £9bn regeneration project, with the Grade II* listed building transformed into a new neighbourhood with homes, shops, offices and 19 acres of public realm.

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Aberfeldy New Masterplan

Aberfeldy New Masterplan

Proposed

An ambitious 20-year regeneration of the Aberfeldy estate that will deliver 1,600 new homes alongside a town square, public park and a range of new facilities for local people.

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Albert Island

Albert Island

Planning Granted

Albert Island is a comprehensive redevelopment to create a well connected, sustainable employment hub with a mix of uses, good cycling and walking links, enhanced river frontage and public realm.

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Meta Office (11-21 Canal Reach)

Meta Office (11-21 Canal Reach)

Built

Crowned by a rooftop park with exceptional skyline views across London, 11-21 Canal Reach delivers over 400,000 sq ft of contemporary office space with the flexibility required by its tenants, Meta.

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East Bank

East Bank

Under Construction

East Bank is the UK's largest cultural project in generations, bringing together new arts and educational venues and 600 new homes, retail and community spaces within the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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Park Place Public Realm, IQL

Park Place Public Realm, IQL

Proposed

LDA Design is a creating a super-nature setting for two new Alison Brooks Architects towers. This will be a fantastical, biodiverse gateway to IQL, a mixed-use development on the edge of the Park.

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Carpenters Estate Public Realm

Carpenters Estate Public Realm

Proposed

Change is afoot at Carpenters Estate led by Populo Living, owned by LB Newham. LDA Design has been working with local people and teenage designers to find out what they think should happen next.

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Westfield Avenue

Westfield Avenue

Proposed

Changes proposed by LDA Design to Westfield Avenue in Stratford would reduce this oversized highway to two lanes, creating a greener, safer environment for pedestrians and cyclists.

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Park Place

Park Place

Proposed

Alison Brooks Architects won a Lendlease-run design contest for the pair of towers at the northern threshold to the International Quarter London (IQL) from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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Here East Public Realm

Here East Public Realm

Built

The Here East landscape by LDA Design responds to the site's monumental architecture and east London’s industrial aesthetic to create a flexible, human-scale and sociable canvas.

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Stratford Waterfront Public Realm

Stratford Waterfront Public Realm

Under Construction

Stratford Waterfront gifts Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with a distinct new cultural attraction. The public realm will serve as an exciting and distinctive common ground, appealing to new audiences.

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Olympic Parklands and Public Realm

Olympic Parklands and Public Realm

Built

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London is Europe's most important new landscape for a generation - a wonderful setting of restored rivers, waterways and wetlands, lawns and meadows.

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Sugar House Island (Plots MU5 and R3)

Sugar House Island (Plots MU5 and R3)

Under Construction

Sugar House Island is a new canal-side neighbourhood in East London. The new masterplan will be a place of opportunity, a place to live, create and flourish.

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Olympia London

Olympia London

Under Construction

Revitalising the 14-acre site, making the impenetrable site more open to its community & visitors with 3.5 acres of public spaces & gardens, along with retail, offices, leisure & updated events spaces

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Twickenham Riverside

Twickenham Riverside

Proposed

A mixed-use development of shops, offices, work and social spaces, together with a newly invigorated Diamond Jubilee Gardens, will create a location where people can work, live, play and enjoy.

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Aberfeldy Village

Aberfeldy Village

Proposed

Phase A will deliver 280 new homes, a new high street and a civic building facing a community square at the heart of the neighbourhood, with new open spaces within the wider masterplan.

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UCL East Masterplan

UCL East Masterplan

Under Construction

UCL is expanding to east London with a new campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The masterplan allows UCL to forge a new approach, one that fosters collaboration and benefits the local community.

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New Museums Site, Cambridge

New Museums Site, Cambridge

Under Construction

The aim of the masterplan for New Museums Site in Cambridge was to correct decades of ad hoc growth to create a new urban campus within the city's historic core.

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Old Road Campus, Oxford

Old Road Campus, Oxford

Under Construction

LDA Design’s masterplan for the University of Oxford's Old Road Campus creates an assertive landscape-led framework that shapes cohesive growth. Beautiful shared spaces build a sense of belonging.

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The most successful post-Olympic transformation of an International Press and Broadcast Centre in the world.

The most successful post-Olympic transformation of an International Press and Broadcast Centre in the world.

Built

Here East is London’s campus for technology & innovation. Home to a thriving community of start-ups, global corporates & academic institutions. At the heart is Plexal, a thriving innovation centre.

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The Levine Building at Trinity College Oxford

The Levine Building at Trinity College Oxford

Under Construction

The new Levine Building at Trinity College, Oxford is a restrained and pared-back classical composition, suited to its historic setting, and providing a solution for the college's future needs.

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Stratford Waterfront masterplan

Stratford Waterfront masterplan

Under Construction

East Bank will be a new powerhouse for innovation, creativity and learning, bringing some of the world's leading cultural and educational institutions to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

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London College of Fashion

London College of Fashion

Under Construction

The new home for the London College of Fashion, conceived as a 21st century workshop, combines free spaces for learning, studying and social interaction in a rich multi-level internal environment.

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Science Gallery London

Science Gallery London

Built

The Science Gallery London brings together scientific researchers, academics, artists and the local community to inspire and engage the public with cutting-edge research through collaboration.

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