This is London’s grooviest café – a 1960’s commuter train carriage that we converted and installed on a development site in Deptford High Street, South London. It’s there to kick start and breathe life into a regeneration process, two years before our clients, Cathedral Group, begin to develop a building on the site designed by Richard Rogers.
Designed by Morag Myerscough, it’s had global media coverage and has turned a dirty, unloved and derelict railway yard that was blighting the local community, into a crazy, high profile, creative hub that is now a much-loved part of the High Street.
In the run up to the construction phase a programme of art and design projects on the site, curated by a team at the café, will build an amazing story, putting the area on the map and enriching the developer’s sales process. Instead of going to market with only the promise of a new shiny building, they can tell a story of a vibrant place, rich in culture that is already established as a cool place to live.
