Fish Island Mix-Use Building University of Arts London / Henley Halebrown

Curated by Hadir Al Koshta

Architects: Henley Halebrown
Area: 13405 m²
Year: 2022
Photographs:David Grandorge, Rory Gaylor
Interior Designer: 74 (post-planning)
structural Engineer: Whitby Wood, Meinhardt
Services Engineers: Elementa Consulting, EDC
Landscape Architect: James Blake Associates, ACD Environmental
Project Manager: KS4
Planning consultant: Future Generation, Rolfe Judd
Transport Consultant: Motion, TPP
Acoustic Consultant: MLM, Sound Advice Acoustics
Daylight & Sunlight Consultant: eb7
Arboricultural consultant: Treavor Heaps Consultancy
Main Contractor: HG Construction

Fish Island Mix-Use Building University of Arts London / Henley Halebrown - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade, Brick — © Rory Gaylor

Text description provided by the architects. Fish Island is a mixed-use scheme combining homes, workspace, and teaching and learning space for higher education. Fish Island was commissioned as two projects, 'West' in 2018 and 'East' in 2021. The site is the former John Broadwood & Sons piano factory on Fish Island in Hackney Wick, an old industrial neighborhood bounded by infrastructure – the A12 dual carriageway to the west, Hertford Union Canal to the northwest and the River Lea Navigation to the southeast, which separates the Island from the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Fish Island West includes a residential building for 330 students, an incubator workspace for graduates of the University of the Arts London (UAL), and affordable commercial space. Fish Island East combines accommodation for a further 204 students, additional incubator workspace for graduates, and a building for Stour Trust, a local community organisation that provides affordable workspace for creatives.