The regeneration of Butler's Wharf, a 4.5 hectare site on the south bank of the Thames close to Tower Bridge, was a twenty-year project that has seen a formerly derelict area of redundant victorian warehousing transformed into a thriving community of restaurants, bars, shops, galleries, flats and offices.
Conran & Partners (then Conran Roche) were appointed to draw up the original masterplan for the site in 1983, following its acquisition by a consortium of investors led by Terence Conran. C&P also designed a number of new buildings on the site, and converted others. These projects included the Design Museum and the reconstruction of the impressive water-front Butler's Wharf Building into flats and offices. Conran Restaurant’s original ‘gastro-drome’ now occupies the ground floor of the Butlers Wharf building facing onto the quayside.
After hard times in the early 1990s property crash, the site changed hands and was built out to a revised masterplan put in place by Conran & Partners in 1992/3. The final development, BUJ Architects’ conversion of Tea Trade Wharf, was finished in 2004, completing one of the UK’s most significant urban regeneration projects.
Like many of our projects, Butler's Wharf demonstrates a subtle play of old and new, as well as an inclusive mixed-use approach to urban planning, with restaurants and shops drawing vitality into residential areas.
Conran & Partners (then Conran Roche) were appointed to draw up the original masterplan for the site in 1983, following its acquisition by a consortium of investors led by Terence Conran. C&P also designed a number of new buildings on the site, and converted others. These projects included the Design Museum and the reconstruction of the impressive water-front Butler's Wharf Building into flats and offices. Conran Restaurant’s original ‘gastro-drome’ now occupies the ground floor of the Butlers Wharf building facing onto the quayside.
After hard times in the early 1990s property crash, the site changed hands and was built out to a revised masterplan put in place by Conran & Partners in 1992/3. The final development, BUJ Architects’ conversion of Tea Trade Wharf, was finished in 2004, completing one of the UK’s most significant urban regeneration projects.
Like many of our projects, Butler's Wharf demonstrates a subtle play of old and new, as well as an inclusive mixed-use approach to urban planning, with restaurants and shops drawing vitality into residential areas.
