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Poplar Works, Poplar

Low-cost workshops, studios and a public café for fashion enterprises

Poplar Works.
Poplar Works. Credit: Anthony Coleman

RIBA London Regional Award winner 2021


Adams & Sutherland for Poplar Harca
Contract value: £4.9m 
GIA: 1,801m2
Cost per m2: £2,721

Two rows of garages near the A12 are transformed into 45 low-cost workshops, studios and a public café for fashion enterprises. The plan follows the existing linear footprint, refurbished into ground floor units, with new upper floors in exposed CLT. Sawtooth rooflights and a running-stitch of light along the eave create an industrial character, along with the painted steel structure, existing block-work walls and surface-mounted conduits. Horizontal circulation is external, via the street at ground floor level and an external steel walkway above, over-clad with timber for privacy. Coloured timber boards create an active and legible street frontage.

  • Poplar Works.
    Poplar Works. Credit: Anthony Coleman
  • Poplar Works.
    Poplar Works. Credit: Anthony Coleman
  • Poplar Works.
    Poplar Works. Credit: Anthony Coleman
  • Poplar Works.
    Poplar Works. Credit: Anthony Coleman
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