06.02.2023
SLA appointed Public Realm Masterplanner for £3.5 bn Silvertown transformation
We are appointed Public Realm and Landscape Masterplanner for Silvertown – the £3,5 billion development project transforming the Royal Docks in East London into a new, green, and bustling mixed-use city district founded in industrial heritage.
The Silvertown regeneration project is a joint venture between global real estate and investments group Lendlease and Starwood Capital and will provide over 6,500 new homes and support the creation of 1.8 million sq. ft of next-generation business workspace alongside new public space for cultural and community events. All in a strong neighborhood design that will be one of London’s greenest.
“In Silvertown, we will transform one of London’s largest brownfield sites into a new nature-rich, sustainable, and truly complete neighborhood using the industrial heritage of the site and the unique waterfront location as a driver.”
— Rasmus Astrup, Design Principal and Partner in SLA
The task of SLA and the wider design team is to revive and re-imagine Silvertown as a new waterside destination to live, create, work and play. Central to this is the planning and design of a new legible, green-blue, and attractive public realm that will reconnect the site back into the fabric of London.
The public realm masterplan will also make space for thousands of new homes and jobs. With half of the new housing earmarked for affordable homes, the project also significantly bolsters London’s supply of affordable housing stock.
“By combining a strong public realm with the values of industrial heritage, affordable housing, and job creation, Silvertown will become a blueprint for how to transform our cities’ brownfield sites into new and meaningful city districts.”
— Rasmus Astrup, Design Principal and Partner in SLA
Silvertown is the third major London public realm masterplan under development by SLA. SLA is also the Public Realm and Landscape Masterplanner for the Euston project in Camden, as well as the Landscape and Public Realm Designer for the Earls Court Development in Kensington & Chelsea.
The planning and outline permission for Silvertown was submitted in January 2023, with the first phase of the development estimated to be completed in 2032.
The project is done for our great clients Lendlease and Starwood Capital together with Greater London Authority, London Borough of Newham, and our friends Prior & Partners, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, dRMM, Pollard Thomas Edwards, Maccreanor Lavington, Gort Scott, Arup, AECOM, and Churchman Thornhill Finch.
10.06.2025
SLA creates 104 new neighbourhood parks in Abu Dhabi
We are happy to share that we have completed one of the largest urban greening projects to date in the UAE: 104 new neighbourhood parks across Abu Dhabi, designed to improve health, biodiversity, and the everyday quality of life for all Abu Dhabi’s residents.
01.06.2025
SLA and GHD win major design project for Ookwemin Minising
We are incredibly excited to share that we – together with our partner GHD – have won the assignment as prime consultant for Ookwemin Minising: Toronto’s new 39.6-hectare island neighborhood planned for more than 15,000 residents!
23.05.2025
SLA exhibits New Nordic City Nature at Oslo National Museum
Today, the exhibition “New Nordic – Cuisine, Aesthetics and Place” opens at the National Museum in Oslo. SLA and Dyvik Kahlen have made a specially designed pavilion for the museum square – that takes visitors from the Michelin kitchen out into the urban realm. Its roof and landscape are planted with native, edible species from Oslo’s shores and forests, and offers a taste of New Nordic City Nature.