FLAT IRON SQUARE PROJECT THE NEWEST STOP ON

FLAT IRON SQUARE PROJECT
THE NEWEST STOP ON LONDON’S LOW LINE
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THE NEWEST STOP ON LONDON’S LOW LINE
OVERVIEW
SITE LOCATION
SITE CONTEXT
LOCAL SITES / BUILDINGS
PLANNING & CONSERVATION
THE LOW LINE
ACCESS POINTS
UNIT SPACE ALLOCATIONS
ENTERTAINMENT ARCHES
THE BAR & POP-UP KITCHEN UNITS
BAR DOURO & WHERE THE PANCAKES ARE
GLAZED FAÇADE DETAIL
LOW LINE PEDESTRIAN ROUTE
CONTACT
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FLAT IRON SQUARE PROJECT
Located in the heart of Bankside, the Flat Iron Square
project consists of a grouping of six railway arches and
Devonshire House, a wonderful Grade II listed building.
Within this complex will be a variety of food offerings
and music/entertainment venues, catering for the
increasingly popular demand for flexibility when it
comes to eating good food and enjoying new culturally
stimulating entertainment.
There will be a live music venue at the heart of the site with
many different food and bar offerings around and about.
A small acoustic theatre will also host a diverse range of
music and theatrical events.
Bankside is already flourishing; Borough Market, Tate
Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Menier Chocolate
Factory are just some of the new, or newly-regenerated,
landmarks helping to draw some 50 million visitors a year
to the area. Future schemes such as the Low Line project
– an exciting cross-borough walkway using the existing
network of viaducts – will bring yet more visitors right to
our doorstep.
Benjamin Scrimgeour has coordinated the project with
restaurant consultant Jon Spiteri who is curating the
excitingly different food offerings.
OVERVIEW
Network Rail is the superior landlord and is leasing the
site to the Flat Iron Square project for a 25 year term.
Network Rail are currently undertaking a full ‘shell and
core’ refurbishment of the site and expect to handover
the site in April 2016.
The key to this new dynamic, eclectic and unique venue
is its flexibility. People will be free to walk around all areas
of the site sampling and enjoying all the many different
aspects of what’s on offer.
The site will be open all day, lying as it does on the
Low Line, giving complete free movement for pedestrians
along the north side of the site. The music venue and theatre
will be open in the evenings and open until late on various
days, supported by a variety of food offerings and bars.
The concept is taken from the lively market atmospheres
seen in cities all over Europe, a sense of casual informality;
come for an early evening drink but find yourself and
friends still there hours later listening to a brilliant new
live music act next door having eaten some new delicious
dish freshly cooked at one of the many food outlets.
This flexibility means there won’t be any set closing times
as the different operators will want to be open and cater
for everyone that comes depending on the events taking
place during the day or night.
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The site is located in the London borough of Southwark
in central/south-east London. It occupies the southern
half of a block that contains a mix of building types and
uses, and also of architectural periods and styles.
The site consists of a number of railway arches and some
Victorian terraced houses to the south looking onto
Flat Iron Square. The Southeastern railway line passes
overhead while the Jubilee line runs directly below.
There is a large car park immediately to the north of
the site, which currently provides access to the arches.
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The block is bordered to the north by Southwark Street,
the main artery connecting the transport hubs of Waterloo
and London Bridge, which provides direct views of the
Shard. To the south are Union Street and Flat Iron Square,
which are more residential in character. Southwark Bridge
Road is to the west of the site, a busy road that connects the
north and south banks of the Thames via Southwark Bridge.
The site is bounded at the east by O’Meara Street, a quiet
street that is typical of the streets found in and around the
railway arches of the London Bridge area.
The area ranges from being quite industrial in character
where the railway arches and associated buildings are
located, to being quite commercial where regeneration
has occurred. There are also some residential areas to
the south of Union Street.
The site sits within a block, which contains a car park
that is in constant use. The Menier Chocolate Factory is
a theatre/restaurant and sits at the east of the car park.
It is also a Grade II listed building. The block of buildings
at the corner of Southwark Bridge Road are Southwark
Street house offices, a gym and a cafe. There is a paper
storage warehouse at the corner of O’Meara Street and
Union Street, which was formerly an electricity sub-station.
SITE CONTEXT
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LOCAL SITES / BUILDINGS
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The site is located in the Union Street conservation area and
is also adjacent to two other conservation areas – Thrale Street
to the north and Borough High Street to the east. It is a mixed
area of predominantly nineteenth century commercial, industrial
warehousing, social housing and ecclesiastical development
situated half a kilometre south of the River Thames.
Flat Iron Square is of particular interest as it has been highlighted
by the council as an area that would benefit from regeneration.
Please see below an extract from Southwark Council on
its development.
Flat Iron Square is a triangular urban space at the junction of Union
Street and Southwark Bridge Road created in the early nineteenth
century when Southwark Bridge Road was constructed and the
junction with Union Street formed.
The northern edge of the space is dominated by the railway viaduct
with its large brick abutment supporting the bridge over Southwark
Bridge Road. A two storey, turn of the century building (66-68
Union Street) with a triangular footprint infills the gap between the
viaduct and the two three storey houses with shops (62-64 Union
Street), the remainder of a terrace of properties dating from 1835,
now undergoing refurbishment.
In the centre of the triangular traffic island within the space are two
mature London Plane trees, which provide an attractive focal point
along Union Street and a pleasant counterpoint to the densely
developed urban environment. The square will shortly benefit from
a regeneration scheme, which aims to provide a shared space that
will upgrade the public realm whilst retaining access to pedestrians,
cyclists and vehicles.
Human activity within the square focuses on a small cafe
(a converted inter-war brick-built block of public conveniences
with hipped rosemary tiled roof, which replaced the Victorian
drinking fountain) and the shops on the southern edge.
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PLANNING & CONSERVATION
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Strictly speaking it’s the mighty rail viaducts, threading
alongside the rooftops, that are the ‘highways’
of Bankside, a Victorian innovation to moving people
quickly across town and still carrying millions of
passengers today. They are part of Bankside’s character,
but these huge brick structures have also severed the
neighbourhood. In recent years, projects like the award
winning 'Light at the End of the Tunnel' have sought
to address this, by bringing creativity and partnership
working to transform some of the accessible arches.
The Low Line, is a natural extension of this approach,
this time the priority is to foster a partnership of
organisations and people to re-envision the rail viaduct
at the heart of Bankside. The Low Line offers a different
way of viewing the viaducts – as structures that link
existing nodes of activity and enterprise, and as having
the potential to deliver a new public route across the
heart of the neighbourhood. The Flat Iron Square
project will deliver a further section of the Low Line
to be publicly accessible at all times.
Existing Accessibility of Railway Viaduct
Publicly Accessible – publicly accessible route along viaduct
Potentially Accessible – privately accessible with minor obstruction (e.g. fence)
Physically Constrained – frontage is obstructed by abutting buildings / structures
Flat Iron Square
THE LOW LINE
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FLAT IRON SQUARE PROJECT
The pedestrian route to the north side of the railway
viaduct provides direct access into the refurbished
arches through new glazed arch fronts.
The dual access perspective of many of the arches
creates a flexible access and escape strategy to cope
with a range of food, entertainment and gallery
options for prospective tenants.
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ACCESS VIA
FLAT IRON SQUARE
ACCESS VIA
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE
ACCESS POINTS
ACCESS VIA
COURTYARD
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ACCESS VIA
COURTYARD
ACCESS VIA
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE
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Devonshire House
Kitchen Food Units & Bar
Music Venue Bar
Music Venue
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Theatre Space
Signal Box & Courtyard
Bar Douro Tapas & Wine
Where the Pancakes Are
Service Arch
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The entertainment arches includes a self-contained
100 seat acoustic theatre, which benefits from
direct access from O’Meara Street as well as shared
connectivity with the adjacent music venue.
The theatre and the 300 person capacity live music
venue will be run by The Printing Press to promote
numerous live music events every year.
Headed up by a well-known music personality,
The Printing Press are looking to create a stronghold
in London and focus on delivering an unparalleled
level of quality and excellence to the calendar of
planned events.
Supporting the two venues is a large entrance area,
pop-up event space, bar and new courtyard WC block
and roof terrace overlooking O’Meara Street.
ENTERTAINMENT ARCHES
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Alongside the entertainment venues and at the heart of
the site is Arch 32, where eight pop-up kitchen units will
operate from and The Bar. With easy access from Union
Street through the restored Devonshire House and from
the North Low Line pedestrian route, this will be where
great freshly cooked food can be enjoyed with a drink.
THE BAR
There will be a bar and areas of no seat counters and
a mezzanine area with conventional seating. Each kitchen
unit will be run and operated by different chefs, each
preparing delicious dishes for the discerning customer.
MEZZANINE LEVEL
SEATING AREA
POP-UP KITCHEN UNITS
THE BAR & POP-UP KITCHEN UNITS
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Just off the Southwark Bridge Road Low Line entrance
will be two permanent restaurants.
The first is pancake house Where The Pancakes Are and
next door is Bar Douro, a Portuguese tapas and wine bar.
Both restaurants will have approximately 35 covers.
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GLAZED FAÇADE DETAIL
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LOW LINE PEDESTRIAN ROUTE
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Business enquiries:
Benjamin Scrimgeour
bscrimgeour@gmail.com
+44 (0)7831 196 051
Will Goddard
will.goddard@twentyretail.com
+44 (0)7825 329 097
Head Office:
15 Park Street
London SE1 9AB
+44 (0)20 7357 6799
info@flatironsquare.co.uk
Site Address:
Flat Iron Square
68 Union Street
London SE1 1TD
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flatironsquare.co.uk
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