Westferry Printworks Nestled deep in the historic industrial heart the Isle of Dogs, the former Westferry Printworks site presents an exciting and highly contemporary urban challenge. Originally a timber and grain yard, the site fronts onto the Millwall Outer Dock, designed by Sir John Fuller and constructed by John Aird & Co in 1868. The former printworks, built in the mid-1980s, had been operated by the Northern & Shell group until 2011 when the activities relocated to a media hub in Luton. Key to the industrial expansion of nineteenth century London, the Isle of Dogs has undergone several major urban transformations throughout its history: from inaccessible wetlands and secluded marshes, drained by human intervention to create more arable land; through the formation of relentless indu

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