The park, designed by DS+R, was dubbed as “The Tide”, has 5-kilometer, features 9 meters-high elevated walkways flowing through trees and giant sculptures, and will link cultural and social attractions across the area, creating a loop of landscape that links all seven neighbourhoods, that make up the Greenwich Peninsula.
The Tide will be London’s first elevated linear park. The first kilometre-long stretch, opening on 5 July, will extend from North Greenwich tube station to The Jetty, a community events space on the waterfront.
The Tide will be London’s first elevated linear park. The first kilometre-long stretch, opening on 5 July, will extend from North Greenwich tube station to The Jetty, a community events space on the waterfront.
“The design of The Tide seeks to embed a new public realm into the daily rhythms of Greenwich Peninsula by layering together its currents of activity into a thickened landscape. Visitors will experience the park from varying vantage points, from street level up to nine meter high elevated paths that weave through the site to plug into the existing network of leisure, art, and social life across neighborhoods. Diverse programming along the way will act as islands that welcome the surges of commuters, visitors, cyclists and runners, while also providing intimate places of pause for contemplation, conversation, and people watching.”
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Partner-in-Charge, Benjamin Gilmartin.
DS+R was commissioned to design the project back in September 2015, and the first phase is scheduled to open to the public on July 5. The project was designed with local architecture practice Neiheiser Argyros and landscape architecture firm Gross Max.
The first phase of The Tide will be 1 kilometer long and comprise a linear public walkway featuring installations by renowned artists, elevated gardens, pocket cafes, and a promontory overlooking the Thames.
Each of the five “islands” in the network is defined by unique landscaping of trees and plants (among native trees, are included silver birches and pines) designed by Gross Max. “These elevated gardens are designed as clusters of structural supports that create elevated planter beds, containing soil and channelling both gravity loads and water down to the ground. The sculptural structure supporting The Tide gardens above also frames and shelters the path below, creating arched pavilions that mark thresholds and passages at the ground level public realm"
“The Tide brings to London an unrivaled outdoor experience in the city. This bold 3D landscape opens up the river, brings people together, gives us art to absorb, nature to enjoy and space to escape. Most importantly, it’s a place for everyone.”
Kerri Sibson, Director of Greenwich Peninsula.
