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Design District Building D2
Designed by Mole Architects
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London's Design District officially opens to the public

The Design District on London's Greenwich Peninsula has officially opened, with buildings designed by SelgasCano, 6a Architects, Adam Khan Architects, Architecture 00, HNNA, Barozzi Veiga, David Kohn Architects and Mole Architects.

Created by developer Knight Dragon, the cluster of workspace buildings aimed at creatives is located near the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed O2 events arena, also known as the Millennium Dome, at the tip of the Greenwich Peninsula in London.

The Design District is now officially open

The development, which contains a variety of workspaces for 1,800 people, is made up of 16 buildings, with two buildings each designed by eight different architecture studios.

With the aim of replicating the variety of buildings and styles found within cities developed over a long period of time, each of the studios was not made aware of what the others were designing.

SelgasCano's canteen stands at the edge of the development

"The decision to involve eight leading architects was integral to our vision for Design District from the beginning," said Helen Arvanitakis, director of Design District.

"We were determined that it should be a dynamic, engaging and exciting piece of city – somewhere that jolts you into action, and spurs creative thought," she told Dezeen.

"This calculatedly eclectic approach undoubtedly created a possibility for clashes and contrasts, but we knew we had to embrace the risk if we were going to build somewhere genuinely innovative that would reflect and inspire the diverse creative community it was intended to serve."

Barozzi Veiga's building for Ravensbourne University London stands next to one of 6a Architects' two blocks

Masterplanned by UK studio HNNA, the buildings occupy a rectangular site directly behind the Gateway Pavilions building designed by Marks Barfield Architects.

Twelve of the buildings are arranged around the perimeter of the site with a square at its centre.

"I want them to feel that they're not in Kansas anymore; that they've stepped into somewhere distinct from the surrounding city," said Arvanitakis. "I want visitors to feel an urge to explore – to look around corners and linger in courtyards."

"By keeping the building low-rise, encouraging architectural diversity and avoiding the symmetry and predictability of the urban grid, we've ensured Design District feels as though it has developed organically rather than simply having been imposed on Greenwich Peninsula," she continued.

Architecture 00's block is topped by a basketball court

Directly behind the Gateway Pavilions are a trio of buildings – one each by Spanish studios Barozzi Veiga and SelgasCano and one by Architecture 00.

Barozzi Veiga's aluminium-clad building contains additional space for the nearby Ravensbourne University London, while Architecture 00's concrete-framed building is topped with a basketball court – one of several communal facilities for people working at the development.

Between these two buildings is a transparent structure by SelgasCano that contains the Design District Canteen, which is open to the public and contains a bar and six restaurants.

SelgasCano's second building is a block that replicates the style of the canteen, while Barozzi Veiga's second building is an aluminium-clad block on the other side of the site.

Design District is written on top of one of David Kohn Architects' buildings

To mark the development, the words "design district" were written on a roof-mounted sign that recalls early US advertising signage on top of one of David Kohn Architects' two buildings.

Both of David Kohn Architects' buildings in the development combine vivid green metalwork with glass blocks and stout red-brick columns.

Alongside David Kohn Architects-signpost building stands a block by Adam Khan Architects, which has exposed concrete walls and yellow balconies.

Bureau occupies buildings by Architecture 00 and HNNA

In addition to the workspaces, a co-working space called Bureau occupies two buildings – the second concrete-framed building designed by Architecture 00 and a white building by HNNA with curved white walls.

The interiors of both buildings were designed by UK studio Roz Barr Architects.

Also on the site are a pair of buildings designed by 6a Architects with angled facades that are decorated with diamond patterns.

Mole Architects' contribution to the development was a block clad in Corten steel and a building with a metal facade painted in an "iridescent" colour.

One of Mole Architects' blocks is clad in Corten

Developer Knight Dragon aims to develop a community of creative businesses in the Design District. To attract organisations to the development, it is offering the units at what it believes are competitive rates.

"Design District will deliver a site-wide blended-rent target of £25 per square metre. Starting at £7 per square metre, rents will be scaled depending on the workspace to be rented and the size and needs of the tenant, and will be reviewed regularly," said the developer.

"Larger organisations will be able to occupy buildings at rents commensurate to their size, in order to reduce the rental burden on smaller businesses," it continued.

"This rental structure is designed to create an ecosystem of businesses of varying sizes, each contributing according to its means, and ensure that any individual or organisation that wishes to be part of Design District can afford to find a home here."

Its second block is clad in metal painted in "iridescent" paint

Although the district is officially open, the final two buildings – one by HNNA and one by Adam Khan Architects are yet to be built as they have been delayed by the disruption caused by the construction of the Silvertown tunnel below the site.

The photography is byTaran Wilkhu.

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A "respectful" coastal home features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter

The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features a home at Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk that looks like an ad hoc cluster of buildings.

UK studio Mole Architects has created a house named Freeholders formed of three contrasting volumes on the coast at Wells-next-the-Sea, UK.

The studio designed the two-bedroom house to mimic the irregular clusters of cottages and terraces that characterise the conservation area in the north Norfolk seaside town.

Readers are impressed. One commenter said: "A new building that respects its surroundings"

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Mole Architects designs seaside home to look like an ad-hoc cluster of buildings

UK studio Mole Architects has created a house named Freeholders within three contrasting volumes on the coast at Wells-next-the-Sea, UK.

The studio designed the two-bedroom house to mimic the irregular clusters of cottages and terraces that characterise the conservation area in the north Norfolk seaside town.

The home was designed to be in keeping with its surroundings

Built on the site of a pub called the Freeholders Arms, which gives the home its name, the two-bedroom home was designed for family gatherings as well as holiday rentals.

Permission to build on the site was contingent on the new house remaining in-keeping with the conservation area, as well as all living areas being positioned at first floor level to mitigate the risk of flooding.

One of its volumes has a Corten steel exterior

Mole Architects broke up the building into three connected blocks – a white-painted flint and brickwork block and a slimmer Corten-clad volume on the seafront with a grey-painted render volume behind.

"This approach reduces the mass of the building to a comfortable scale and plays on the multiple ad-hoc additions that are found in this part of the town," explained the studio.

A grey-painted volume contains a guest bedroom

The contrasting exterior treatments were designed to references the natural accretion of materials, finishes and colours in the surrounding buildings.

Robust materials resistant to flooding have been used to construct the ground floor, which houses a workshop and a boat store that opens out on the quay via a large wooden door.

The main living spaces are on the first floor

The entrance to the home's living spaces was tucked around the side of the building, where a doorway is sheltered by a projecting bay window clad in corten steel that connects the white and grey volumes.

Once inside, a staircase leads up to a large living, dining and kitchen space in the larger white volume, with windows looking north, out towards the sea.

The first floor of the slimmer Corten volume contains the main bedroom, while the grey volume houses a guest bedroom. Both bedrooms are topped with large skylights.

White surfaces and ceilings that reflect the pitch of the roofs enhance the feeling of height and lightness in the living areas, contrasted by dark wood flooring.

Its interior has a light finish with dark surfaces

The roofs of each volume are also unique, with the white volume topped with clay pantiles, the grey with zinc panels and the Corten volume with corrugated steel.

Where these three roofs meet, a small roof terrace has been carved out, which the practice describes as providing an "unusual viewpoint of the roofscape of Wells, as well as a sheltered outdoor space to enjoy the sea".

A rectangular window looks out to the sea

On England's southwest coast, London-based practice Morrow + Lorraine recently completed a series of holiday homes, which draw on the irregular surfaces of a nearby cliff face.

Mole Architects also built a home in Cambridgeshire that used architectural features found at the city's cathedral.

Photography is by Nick Guttridge.

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