PROJECT: Tateside District
YEAR: 2009
TYPE: Group University Project (Sean Cleary, Justin Collins, Zeng Jianzhou, Tricia Parker, Dan Sheedy)
The project, working with colleagues from the MA Landscape Arcitecture course, asked us to plan a strategy and framework for development for a territory which required a synthesis between a range of design, planning and environmental objectives. The city fragment designated to our group was the railway loop between Blackfriars and Cannon Street Stations in London.
Our group proposed the creation of an elevated parkway that followed the line of the railway infrastructure and connected the two stations with a promenade along the northbank of the Thames. The loop was to act as a navigational device to provide logic to an area that suffered from poor wayfinding due to piecemeal development over its history. The project seeked to take advantage of and enhance the status of the Tate Modern by rebranding the territory as a destination for fine arts within its own walled arts quarter.