In the last fifteen years exciting new architecture has transformed the historic districts of
London's docklands, forging change on an immense scale; from CZWG's bright-red China Wharf
in Bermondsey to the High Tech buildings of Rogers and Grimshaw in East India Docks.
Exploiting the potential of water, architects and developers have produced a new landscape
punctuated by the radical use of public art to provide drama and focus. Great warehouses, part
of the rich legacy of pioneering dock structures, have been imaginatively converted to form new
urban quarters enriched by Hawksmoor's Baroque churches, Georgian merchants' houses, and
Victorian extravaganzas. Presiding over all, Cesar Pelli's gleaming tower advertises Canary
Wharf, a slice of North America on the Isle of Dogs and a landmark for the whole of the
evolving Docklands.
