Tall & Urban News

The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has approved two schemes on 27 September that will provide 669 student homes in east London. They include a 25-story high-rise in Stratford as well as a three-building mixed-use development at Fish Island.

The high-rise, which will contain 465 homes, will be developed by Dominvs on Stratford High Street with outdoor amenity space on the 13th floor. The building will include 327 cluster bedrooms and 138 studios, as well as a re-provided pub and 786 square meteres of workspace. It will be clad in precast concrete, with its façade also featuring fins, window heads and elements of terrazzo.

The Fish Island scheme will comprise of 139 student homes in a seven-story block as well as another 65 in a six-story building. Both the buildings, to be built on the site of a former piano factory, will have commercial "incubator" floorspace at ground level, with the first block catering to industrial uses. The Fish Island scheme will provide student homes for University of the Arts London, which is set to open an Allies & Morrison-designed campus at nearby Stratford Waterfront in coming years.

The Stratford High Street scheme, 302-312 Stratford High Street, will provide student homes for Queen Mary University of London, which is based in Bow. Communal spaces are distributed throughout the section and concentrated at the midpoint, where interiors are coupled with a large roof garden and  as a result more accessible to all.

For more on this story go to Architects Journal.