| Republic | |
|---|---|
  Republic | |
| General information | |
| Type | Education and Office Campus |
| Location | 2 Clove Crescent, London, E14 2BE,London Borough of Tower Hamlets,London,United Kingdom,London,England |
| Coordinates | 51°30′36″N0°00′17″W / 51.509943°N 0.004803°W /51.509943; -0.004803 |
| Renovated | 2017 |
| Height | |
| Architectural | Postmodern,Eclectic |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 9 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Studio RHE |
| Developer | Trilogy Real Estate |
| Website | |
| https://republic.london | |
Republic is an education and office campus inLondon,England, situated in theLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets, nearCanary Wharf andCanning Town. It sits on the historic site of theEast India Docks and is currently occupied as a multi-use innovation campus with both education and office space.
The land occupied by Republic was historically used as the Import Dock of theEast India Company. Following the dock's closure in 1967,[1] the site was redeveloped in the 1990s as an office campus providing disaster recovery space for businesses atCanary Wharf.
Following the site's acquisition byLaSalle Investment Management in 2016, a large-scale re-branding effort was put in place to position the site as a cultural and business hub for East London. Recognition that businesses were increasingly being "priced-out" of the City of London and tech-capital Shoreditch[2] motivated the site's transformation into an affordable workplace.
Signs of the historic past of the area remain, including the original boundary wall to the Import Dock and the naming of offices as The Import and Export buildings.
The buildings were originally constructed in thepostmodern style in the 1990s and the shells of these buildings still exist. Whilst plans for the demolition of the buildings and their replacement by residential accommodation were developed by architects 3D Reid in 2015,[3] these were not implemented by developers Trilogy Real Estate who favoured the re-positioning of the site as a "Live, Work, Play" environment.
Major renovation works, led by architects Studio RHE, began in 2016 in an attempt to modernise the campus.[4] Extensive landscaping was instigated along existing waterways and plans submitted to construct Europe's longest open-air swimming pool.
Internal renovations of the buildings focused on the remodelling of the existing atrium cores with the extensive use ofCross-laminated timber. British artistScott King designed the building's facade, referencing the socialistProject Cybersyn and pictorial depictions of Utopia.
Republic is home to a number of organisations in both the private and public sectors - These include:
University of the West of Scotland,York St John University,University of Northampton,Anglia Ruskin University,Tower Hamlets London Borough Council,Vodafone, Co-working spaceThe Trampery andLebara
The campus is served by theEast India DLR station by a dedicated entrance providing access to theTransport for London network. NearbyCanary Wharf railway station andCanning Town station facilitates connections to the wider rail network via theElizabeth line andJubilee line respectively.
London Buses routesD3,108,115,N15,N550 andN551 all stop adjacent to the site.
Additionally, the site is flanked to the south by theA261 road and to the west by theA102 road providing access to the South of London via theBlackwall Tunnel.