Millennium Mills is only one of the empty buildings in London’s Royal Docks. We’ve just completed an project there looking at how we might use some of the empty spaces and buildings to start generating some interest in it as an area due for massive redevelopment.
Our plan is to create a programme of temporary activity as a catalyst for change in the very early part of the formal redevelopment process…
…bringing attention to a part of London that doesn’t yet have a clear personality.
Below is the Tate Institute, built by Henry Tate in 1887 as a social club for his workers at the Tate and Lyle plant that’s still across the road. It closed in 1933, was a library until 1961 and now sits empty, rather forlorn and forgotten. We’d love to get our hands on it and open it up…
North Woolwich train station (below) has been a museum since it closed as a working railway station building in the 1970’s. Another amazing building, empty, dead and crying out for use.
