Design for London is supporting Barratt Homes in offering emerging artistic talents a unique opportunity to shape Barratt Homes' major development at Barrier Park East.

Design for London invited up-and-coming artists and designers to animate the Royal Docks development’s most visible façade through interventions to an internal gallery that faces the DLR route. The gallery acts as a ‘blank canvas’ that has attracted a wide range of creative responses.

The winning entry by Sabine Heine uses motifs of birds on wires to highlight the coexistence of natural and industrial/urban life and maximises visual impact by drawing sight lines from the DLR.

The competition was open to international artists and post graduate students of architecture, art and design programmes across London, including RCA, London Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths, Central St. Martins and UEL. This process highlights Design for London’s commitment to engagement and supporting local communities through large scale projects in an effort to ensure lasting and broadly reaching regenerative effects.

Design for London and the London Development Agency are working closely with its partners, masterplanner Allies and Morrison and Mccreanor Lavington Architects, and landscape architect Townshend, advising on the design quality of the buildings and landscape of Barrier Park East (BPE) housing development, next to Thames Barrier Park in the Royal Docks, East London.