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Project Overview
Two show Apartments for One Park Drive, by Canary Wharf Group, which is one of London’s most exciting and eagerly-awaited luxury residential developments. It will take the form of a striking and soon-to-be iconic 58-storey circular building, designed by Tate Modern architects Herzog & de Meuron. One Park Drive is the first UK residential project by the celebrated practice and is due for completion in 2020.
Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Canary Wharf Group said of the development that “One Park Drive will become a fixture on the London skyline and this launch represents a rare and very limited opportunity for people to buy a home in London. This more than just a building, it is a piece of art.”
Meticulous attention has been paid to the design of this 58-storey building, ranging from cleverly concise studios to spacious four-bedroom penthouses. Each apartment will offer generous views over the surrounding docklands and across London, while the layout of the building has been planned with privacy in mind, ensuring that no unit is overlooked.
The 483 apartments in the scheme will be comprised of three typologies – Bay, Cluster and Loft. The design concepts for the first two apartment types – Bay and Cluster sections have been created by Goddard Littlefair and are currently being showcased to potential buyers in a marketing suite, which contains the apartments at full scale, located within Canary Wharf Group’s HQ at One Canada Tower.
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Goddard Littlefair is a London-based, luxury interior design studio, established in 2012 by Martin Goddard and Jo Littlefair. The companys talented, international team works on multi-award-winning hotel, hospitality and spa projects across the globe, as well as high-end residential schemes.
Our ethos is about combining aesthetic perfectionism and boundless curiosity with a team-playing, service-driven attitude. As the Irish Times said, The firms unique selling point is the ability to knit smart, sensual design with a healthy dose of pragmatism.
Goddard Littlefair is currently working on some of Londons most high-profile residential developments, including One Park Drive (within the new Herzog & de Meuron building), Southbank Place, South Bank Tower, Ebury Square, Grosvenor Waterside, Kensington Row, the Corniche, Merano and Canaletto Buildings, as well as on luxury spa projects in London, Prague and Tripoli and hospitality/hotel projects for Corinthia, Intercontinental, Principal, Cadogan, London & Regional and Hilton Hotels in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, York, Berlin, Mnich, Vienna, Budapest, Lisbon, Cologne and St Petersburg.
Project Brief
The aspirations of this residential tower are to create something that will not only set the standard for the whole Canary Wharf district but also a new standard for London. Brian De’ath, Director of Residential Sales, comments: ‘One Park Drive will define the standards by which all future residential projects will come to be measured. In terms of how it works, how it looks and the quality of every detail, it is something very special indeed.’
The apartment interiors deliver a complexity and surprise that complements One Park Drive’s powerful exterior form, as well as creating a sense of calm and intimacy. For the Bay and the Cluster apartment typologies, we took inspiration from the the use of framing in the architectural scheme, as well as the ribbed texture of the external façade, with echoed patterning used in the joinery for the modern and geometric interior treatment, inspired by the architectural cues. The concept is very engineered, using exquisite details and making them flow and connect around the apartments.
As Martin Goddard, Director and Co-Founder of Goddard Littlefair, explains, ‘Our overall approach was to understand the architectural DNA of the building, it was vital to bring harmony from the exterior to the interior.’
Project Innovation/Need
Inspired by the striking use of frames and ribbed textures in the building façade, the interior designs we created for both apartment types are crisp and geometric, with an accent on clean lines, especially for the joinery, with the warmth of wood a major theme of the design. The refined and understated colour palettes for the two types of apartment are given added drama through shape, texture and finely-judged bolts of vivid colour.
The Bay Apartment typology features a darker, more masculine feel, via dark timbers and furniture, upholstery and soft furnishings in greens, bronzes and teals, whilst the Cluster apartments have a lighter feel, with paler stone floors and lighter, grey-toned joinery. Lighting is deliberately sculptural and architectural in style. Bathrooms feature bespoke marble finishes, including a hexagonal tiled floor.
‘The materials have been selected for their inherent texture, light reflection qualities and ability to work over a number of different surfaces,’ explains Martin Goddard.
What the apartment typologies share is an exquisite level of finishing, both to the inbuilt joinery and to every fine detail, from the beautiful bespoke rugs and the material quality of other soft furnishings in silks and velvets to the art and carefully-selected accessories, as well as to the planting in the winter garden area.
Design Challenge
The dramatic circular form of the building’s façade has created a unique floorplan for the apartment types. Whilst a challenge, this was also an opportunity for Goddard Littlefair to develop creative solutions that not only navigated this structure but rather celebrated it.
The floorplan gave each apartment one distinct space, designed to serve up to four purposes. Our approach in maximizing the fluidity of the space was to design elements of the living/kitchen space that were atypical to expectation. The Cluster apartment features a single piece of joinery with concealed kitchen equipment that, when not in use, belongs in that space without feeling like a kitchen in a living area. In the Bay typology, the joinery has also been created to have clear kitchen functionality on one side and elegant storage capacity on the living area side. Decorative shelving frames this bench without compartmentalizing the space and, when coupled with the concealed equipment, disguises this functionality when looking from the living space. This allows the views across London to be visible from all parts of this living space.
The FF& layout was designed to highlight the curved façade and balconies, whilst allowing the user to appreciate the internal design cues, inspired by the building’s architecture. One way this takes its form is through the various textured wall finishes, which are magnified and visible from a variety of angles by the strategic use of mirroring. From outside to inside, it is clear you are in One Park Drive.
Sustainability
Our approach to sustainable design is to specify responsibly sourced materials and fittings along with energy and water saving fittings. We also try to ensure any alternatives proposed are also responsibly sourced and sustainable and achieve similar accreditations as to those specified. Some of these include:
• 100% FSC Accredited timber flooring
• 75% mix FSC Certified Melamine faced particle board for Kitchen shelving, internals to kitchens, wardrobes and bathroom vanities.
• Caesarstone benchtops to kitchens which use recycled quartz
• Water saving sanitaryware from Hansgrohe
• LED energy saving light fittings throughout
Other measures we took for this project include using local suppliers to reduce carbon footprint. This includes the decorative light manufacturer, bespoke joinery manufacturer and using local labour to install decorative finishes and furniture.
Interior Design - Residential
This award celebrates innovative and creative building interiors with consideration given to space creation and planning, furnishings, finishes and aesthetic presentation. Consideration also given to space allocation, traffic flow, building services, lighting, fixtures, flooring, colours, furnishings and surface finishes.
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