There is a lot of new building going on in Hackney Wick, this one is for a new community arts centre:
Community Arts Centre, Hackney Wick 2011
David Kohn Architects in collaboration with Exploration Architecture is working on the design of a community arts centre in Hackney Wick on the edge of the Olympic site due to open in 2011. The project was won through invited competition in 2010.
Hackney Wick and Fish Island are located immediately west of the Olympics site, and have been identified by the London Development Agency as a key component of the ‘Olympic Fringe’. These areas are integral to the LDA’s vision that the Legacy of the 2012 Olympics will fundamentally improve conditions – physical, social and economic – across East London.
Design for London, as part of the LDA is taking out a 10 year lease on the property, an existing Victorian warehouse, most recently used as a printworks on the canal at Queen’s Yard, White Post Lane in Hackney Wick. The building benefits from canal frontage that will become a public space, designed by Muf Architecture Art. The building will be managed by Space Studios, a charitable organization that provides affordable studio space for artists across London.
The competition entry proposed that the White Building be a space for creativity that:
1 Is built by local people for local people
2 Foregrounds the pleasures of making
3 Resonates with the history of the area
4 Works with the existing building fabric
5 Demonstrates innovative sustainable design
6 Is realised affordably and quickly
7 Shows a past and future London at the Olympics
From http://www.davidkohn.co.uk/projects/current/white-building/
