This mixed-tenure housing scheme is the culmination of a collaborative pre-application design process with the client and LB Tower Hamlets. The development replaces low grade industrial buildings with four new buildings organised around improved street-level public realm for residents and the general public alike. On the west side of Hemming Street, the ‘bookends’ of the two new buildings project to the street edge, defining a generous public realm and connecting visually with the language of the building proposals opposite. At 10 storeys, the northern most building is the tallest element of the scheme. It fulfils an important way-finding role for the gateway under the adjacent mainline railway viaduct and will act as an anchor to the regeneration of the area.