Developer Native Land has appointed PLP, Make, Allies and Morrison and Stiff + Trevillion to develop designs for four buildings within Eastern Yards, part of the £1 billion Bankside Yards mixed-use development.

 

Eastern Yards, on the former Sampson House site, makes up 550,000 sq ft of the 1.4m sq ft Bankside Yards development, and comprises five buildings in total. The site, which was granted a new planning consent earlier this year, will include 341 homes, 70,000 sq ft of workspace, approximately 1.5 acres of public open space and 8,000 sq ft of cultural space. 

 

PLP Architecture will work on designs for Building 5, which will be the tallest building at Eastern Yards and include a 5* hospitality ‘offering’ incorporating 126-bed luxury hotel and 58 associated apartments, asw ell as restaurants with views over the River Thames. A large cultural public square and retail space will be developed at the base.

 

Make Architects is developing designs for Building 4, a 20 storey residential building, comprising 74 private apartments, and a resident’s roof garden with uncompromised views of the City and St Paul’s Cathedral.

 

Allies and Morrison is working on Building 7, which includes 184 residences, a mixture of private and affordable homes, and a retail offering at the base.

 

Stiff + Trevillion will develop designs for Building 9, the 8-storey commercial building to the south of the site, providing what Native Land brands ‘forward-thinking’ office space, with outdoor spaces and terraces aimed at SME businesses. 

 

PLP Architecture are also the masterplanners for the overall Bankside Yards development. Native Land said the project will open up a previously inaccessible part of central London, connecting through-routes between Bankside and the South Bank for the first time in more than 100 years across the site. The centrepiece, it added, will be 14 historic railway arches, restored to provide independent shops, restaurants, bars, cafés, and amenities, including new cultural spaces to complement the area's world-class cultural offer, including the Southbank Center and Tate Modern.   

 

Native Land chief executive Alasdair Nicholls said the Bankside Yards masterplan allows each building to have its own materiality and character while complementing one another.  ‘PLP Architecture, Make Architects, Allies and Morrison and Stiff + Trevillion are all world-class practices who will bring their own design identity to the development.”

 

Bankside Yards is a development by a consortium comprising Native Land, Temasek, HPL and Amcorp. The consented masterplan, comprises 1.4m sq ft of home, office, restaurant, cultural and open space in a 5.5-acre prime riverside location.

 

Construction of the first phase at Bankside Yards, known as Western Yards, started in late 2019. This includes Arbor, a 230,000-ft next-generation office building due to complete in 2022, a 240-home apartment building and extensive retail, restaurant and cultural space in the restored railway arches.