With the flurry of activity happening on the construction sites, it has come to light “pun not intended” that the cable car interior and exterior lighting will be designed and overseen by Speirs + Major and Mott McDonald as well as the architects . In a post on the Spiers + Major website dated september 2010 it explains creatively how they aim to light the gondola.
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The new transport link between royal victoria docks and and the greenwich peninsular is taking shape. It is hoped that it will be completed by summer in time for the London 2012 Olympics. A lot of visible progress has been made at the constructions sites which makes the deadline seem achievable. From outside the North Greenwich construction site you can see the mechanism that will feed the cable for the emirates air line.
It has just been announced that Emirates Airline has just signed a £36m deal sees cable car named Emirates Air Line. Reported earlier in August about the progress along with the video fly throughs – you can read that previous article here – now the cable car gets a final name and an updated fly through video as well as the private investment needed…
We are pleased to share with you some of the visuals of the many many residential projects that will be taking shape in the next 20 years.
The building of homes for the new community at Greenwich Peninsula represents one of the largest and most prominent development opportunities in the UK today. Development companies like
A Hotel is to be built next to the O2 on the greenwich peninsular. AEG who also owns the O2 is planning a 450 room four star hotel. They will also be building as part of the hotel an event space which will include uses for banqueting for up to 3,000 people.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is said to be the architect for this project.
The project will be placed here next to the o2:
This is how the Hotel will look like from these renderings.
Here is a video of the proposed design.
A commenter on the North Greenwich peninsular article that I wrote introduced me to a new development on the peninsular. One that will, like the cable car, be completed in time for the London 2012 Olympics. As with the cable car, this is not tied to the Olympics delivery so there is no guarantee it will be done on before 2012.
So what is the Enderby Warf project? It is the construction of an International cruise Liner port. There will also be residential and business buildings including a 251 room luxury hotel. The new homes include 770 luxury townhouses and apartments. These are new appartments on top of the plans for the rest of the greenwich peninsular.
As you can see from the picture below it is in the lower east region of the peninsular.
Further more you can see on the map we showed on the Greenwich Peninsular article that this area is more or less not included in the developments so it is good to see there will be regeneration here aswell.
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Here is a more closeup view of where this development will take place. The motorway you see on the top right is the Blackwall tunnel approach. The building in the top right is Holiday in with the very popular Peninsular Chinese restaurant.
Here are the residential plans of the project with various views. As explained earlier it would have 770 luxury townhouses and apartments.
aThe buildings have a town house look to them where the ground level area has a light white shade whilst above a warm brick colour.
This pier will not only serve as a new crusiseliner stop but also a river stop for services like thames clippers. Currently the Greenwich Pier near cutty sark is also developing a new pier.
here are some renders of how it will all look
My favourite pictures of the month that I have snapped
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