Discovery Dock West consists of 142 contemporary apartments, 10 penthouses & retail units at ground floor level. It is located to the South of Canary Wharf and is the gateway building to the Millennium Quarter on the Isle of Dogs.

The existing structure was constructed circa 1987 as suited offices but was never occupied. It was heavily damaged by the IRA bomb in 1996 and remained a partially clad skeleton until construction commenced in 2004.

The design builds on the existing structure but is not dictated to by the original building form. EPR have radically carved and extended the frame relocating cores and readdressing the mass of the building to create 142 contemporary apartments & 10 penthouses.

New cantilevered balconies are employed to enrich the fabric of the elevation and capture views of the City to the west and the Greenwich Peninsula to the east. At ground floor level a colonnade has been created to enhance the dockside walkway and draw people into the retail space enlivening the waters edge.

The site presented a complex range of issues which required the team to develop the design and new construction techniques to work within the constraints of the existing structure. The deceptively simple cladding incorporates unitised insulated render panels into a curtain wall system for the first time in Europe.

The building forms the Northern perimeter of the Jemstock Estate situated around a central landscape courtyard, bounded by Canary Wharf to north and the South Quay DLR station and track to the south.

The southern building in the estate is a 283 key Hotel with restaurant, meeting rooms and conference facility recently completed by EPR for Hilton. EPR are currently undertaking a 100,000 sq ft office building overlooking South Quay Square to complete the estate.

Client: Jemstock Properties.