Avery Hill Café on site

Avery Hill Café is now on site. Situated alongside a cluster of facilities at the north edge of Avery Hill Park including the sports pavilion and playground, the new café will provide a focal point as a meeting place and shelter with views out over the park.

Competition for new nursery building for Collingham Gardens

East has been shortlisted to submit proposals for a new nursery building within the busy urban context of Kings Cross/Russell Square. The new building is to replace an existing structure set within a large garden space (the site is a former graveyard) populated with informal play structures below the mature trees.

Ore Valley Adventure Playground

The Ore Valley Adventure Playground has received planning permission and is now ready to go on site at the beginning of 2010.

The playground building will be located in the currently delapidated Coach House in the southwestern corner of the Ore Valley. Heavily insulated timber rooms will be inserted in the refurbished shell, to house facilities such as a large kitchen, music and sensory rooms, toilets and changing rooms and a staff room.

The outside area will continue to evolve with the community and children’s participation, as a space that children own and are empowered to shape and design. The playground will offer a variety of inclusive play opportunities including places where children can build their own structures with storage containers full of tools and equipment, quiet areas, wild nature areas, water play, a fire pit, slides, zip line, places for digging and making dens. All trees will be retained on the site, and made use of for playing and growing food.

The design of the building and external spaces has been developed by a design team lead by architects East, with young people at Sandown School, Broomgrove Community Centre and The Bridge, after a design team selection process which involved the young users as well as the adult client team.

Green Enterprise District, East London - 1 October 2009

The London Development Agency have appointed East leading a team of consultants to develop a research and feasibility report for a Green Enterprise District in East London. The report will complement the Low Carbon Capital study, and will focus on an area north of the river between Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Newham, Barking and Dagenham and Havering.

The team of consultants includes East architecture, landscape, urban design; GVA Grimley; Buro Happold; Locum Destination; Chora; Dow Jones Architects; Sergison Bates Architects; and Polimekanos.

The team will work until February 2010 to develop a vision for the East London Green Enterprise District including a spatial plan with strategy for attracting businesses and visitors to the area.

The following projects will be developed as prototypes: Governance, Energy Infrastructure, Waste to Energy, Riverside Business, Retrofitting, Food Network, City Airport/ Expo and Olympic Legacy Holding Strategy.