Part of a wider urban plan, Electric Wharf was a flagship development with new public realm integrated into the design including a new pedestrian footbridge linking the area with the city centre. The scheme had two major themes, environment and innovation. CDP’s overall aim was a village for the future, innovative, sustainable and integrated with the surrounding communities. The design approach was very much concerned with the sense of place and not losing or overpowering the historic fabric. It was essential to retain the sense of discovery providing glimpses of the former industrial uses, the lives of the people

who worked there, the power of the architecture etc. New interventions mostly contrast utilising a consistent limited palette of materials, forms and colour. Electric Wharf was a major canalside regeneration development project in Coventry. It involved the conversion of disused, industrial Victorian buildings, namely the former Electric Light Works business studios, offices, live/work, lofts and ECO homes.