LDA Design

A new canvas for life and a cultural ecosystem Stratford Waterfront, East Bank, cements Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s post-Games legacy. The project brings together world-renowned institutions, V&A East Museum, London College of Fashion, UCL East, BBC Music Studios and Sadler’s Wells East, to form London’s most significant cultural district in 150 years. It is distinctive […]

Set on the Thames, the southeast London market town of Woolwich was once home to the Royal Arsenal munitions. During its height, the Arsenal employed 120,000 people and it drove the town’s economy, establishing its national significance. The proximity of the Arsenal to the town’s main square, Beresford Square, meant that the Square itself has […]

Lee Valley Ice Centre (LVIC) is a new £30m state-of-the-art, low-energy ice centre with two Olympic-sized ice pads. It is also the UK’s most sustainable ice centre. It occupies the site of a 1980s single-rink venue in east London that could no longer deal with demand. The old rink was surrounded by extensive, hard-standing car […]

West End Project (WEP) is Camden Council’s £40m investment into the area around busy Tottenham Court Road in central London. It is a pioneering biophilic landscape, and healthy streets and spaces initiative and Camden’s largest transport and public realm scheme to date. It is designed to improve air quality and local health and wellbeing and […]

Union Terrace Gardens (UTG) in Aberdeen, Scotland, is one of the UK’s most important park regenerations. Set amongst many of the city’s finest buildings, it is Aberdeen’s most visible green space. Located within a steep river valley and bounded by a railway line, it has a dramatic, challenging typography. Dating back to 1878, UTG is […]

The Problem Strand (or Strond, meaning edge of river) is an important London east/west route, and has been since AD190. It is a key processional route between Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s. Completed in 1905, Aldwych is a Parisian-style boulevard. Combined, they formed a congested one-way gyratory, which turned one of London’s finest 18th century […]

The problem  Alfred Place was a heavily parked back street in London’s West End, situated alongside Tottenham Court Road in an area between the Euston Road and Oxford Street. With nowhere to sit, it was a place to hurry through. The street is lined with offices and the back entrances of large stores on Tottenham […]