A NEW ISLAND FOR LONDON

LONDON CITY ISLAND

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The Location

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EAST LONDON NOW & THEN

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THE APARTMENTS
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The Vision

FIXTURES AN ISLAND NEIGHBOURHOOD AND FITTINGS

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The Art of

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Orchard Place & Waterline Park

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A CONNECTED LANDSCAPE

LONDON BY BALLYMORE THE PROJECT TEAM

CITY ISLAND SOCIAL CLUB

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City ISLAND joins a key stretch of riverside London, with incredible views of nearby Canary Wharf the O2 Arena, the city & beyond.

A new bridge offers door-to-door access between City Island and the rest of London.

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FOREWORD
A private island in London to call your own.
In many ways our vision for City Island is simple: on one of the most unique and well-connected undeveloped sites in London we are creating a new island neighbourhood, one inspired by the best metropolitan islands from across the world. Weve been bold with this one City Island is certainly not shy and retiring. From the primary colours of each building (taking inspiration from the areas maritime heritage) to the surrounding gingko trees and striking red bridge connecting islanders to speedy transport, it really cuts a swathe on the London landscape. Acting as a vital bridge between the business might of Canary Wharf and the creative dynamism of East London, it will have a unique identity that draws from the character of each. To live here will be to join an exclusive club, while at the same time, with its new public spaces, boutique shops and restaurants, City Island will also be a new magnetic destination for London. Ballymore is a company that creates something more than just bricks and mortar. We make places, districts even communities. I am proud to be bringing our way of working to one of the most exciting chapters in the story of this fantastic area of London, an area of the capital that we as a company know better than any other.

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Sean Mulryan
Chairman & CEO, Ballymore Group

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The success of the London 2012 Olympics and the rise of Canary Wharf reveal a world capital whose centre of gravity has moved to the East.

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NOW & THEN

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EAST LONDON
London is one of just a handful of cities that can be described, truly, as a world capital. The finance, technology and creative sectors are surging and the appetite for London property continues to go from strength to strength. The city offers one of the most investible, transparent and sophisticated real estate markets in the world, a status underpinned by stable government, effective regulation, economic balance and global financial strength. The internationally-facing capital blends its unique culture and heritage with a position at the heart of the global economy. It is a premier financial centre with a highly skilled workforce and the European headquarters for over one third of all Fortune 500 firms. It is the largest investment banking centre in Europe, with around half of all European financial activity undertaken in London, and for over 300 years has been the leading insurance market in the World. London offers an ideal geographical location between US and Asian time zones. It is also the number one global destination for both visitor numbers, propelled to over 20 million by the 2012 Olympics, and spend. These are just some of the countless ways that London manages to be both an exciting place to work and live and a compelling destination for tourists. But it is also changing. Those who live in London have known for some time that the citys action, both creative and commercial, has been shifting downriver, towards a new constellation of key eastern suburbs including Canary Wharf, Shoreditch, Hackney and Greenwich. Recently the 2012 Olympics, gathered around Docklands on the Thames and Stratford by the river Lea, has revealed Londons new centre of gravity to the rest of the world. You can still find the living history of old London in Knightsbridge, Bloomsbury and the cobbled streets of the original City. But to see how this ancient metropolis continues to reinvent itself in the twenty-first century, you need to look to the East. Nothing has symbolised or driven this change more visibly than the riverside skyscrapers and busy shops and restaurants of Canary Wharf and Docklands.
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Between the early nineteenth and mid twentieth-century this was the site of the worlds mightiest docks, the grand marketplace of British Empire.

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One of the most active docks belonged to the East India Dock Company.

The docks stretched from the City of London to Tilbury, some thirty miles away in the Thames Estuary. Painters and writers would travel here to find inspiration in the spectacular maze of great warehouses and magnificent ships, where merchants, sailors and artisans all gathered busily around a constant cargo of tea, indigo, silk, carpets indeed any commodity you could think of. One of the most active docks belonged to the East India Dock Company, where the Thames met with the mouth of the river Lea, just East of todays Canary Wharf and next to a large peninsula of land that had once been known as Good Luck Hope. Like much of East London this land was home to skilled manufacturing activity, in this case the glass factory of the Thames Plate Glass Company, a significant glass-maker which, for 1851s Great Exhibition, created and exhibited the largest plate of glass in the world.

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The era of seafaring and industry has since been replaced by a new age, defined, in the Docklands, by the technology and high finance that is so key to Londons economy.
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The Canary Wharf we see now is one that, in under thirty years, has gone from being the site of a spectacularly ambitious development to one of the most important financial districts in the world. Home to Europes highest concentration of banking professionals, and also many of the UKs most significant technology and media companies, it has become the de facto city centre of Londons rising East, a new Central Business District, bustling

with commerce and retail. The recent acquisition by Advanced Business Parks (APB) to create a major Chinese business hub and innovation quarters at nearby Royal Albert Dock will transform the 35acre site into the European headquarters for hundreds of Chinese firms. Together with the proposed Silvertown development (deals worth a total 2.5bn) the evolution and pull of the former Port of London continues apace.

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NEW PROVIDENCE WHARF

CHINESE CITY BUSINESS HUB AIRPORT

O2 Arena

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At the same time that Canary Wharf was reinvented as an international business hub, the artisan and industrial areas of the inner East were also finding a new destiny.
Attracted by the abundance of flexible workspaces between Shoreditch and the river Lea, from the 1980s onwards creative professionals started moving into the area en masse. This was the stomping ground of the Young British Artists, and it is now home to a swathe of internet start-ups. So many, in fact, that it has been designated East London Tech City, a key enterprise zone aimed to create the UKs answer to Silicon Valley, with backers including Google, Intel and Facebook. Here in the areas of Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Dalston, Hackney, Whitechapel and Stratford is Europes densest concentration of artists and creative professionals. There are design and photography studios, architects firms and digital technology labs, plus a network of galleries, theatres, bars and restaurants that are increasingly the weekend destination of choice for Londoners from all points of the compass.

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The recent story of East London, and arguably of London as a whole, is really a tale of these two reinventions. On the land once known as Good Luck Hope, City Island will finally offer a place that combines the best of both the cool of the creative East with the luxury lifestyle of Canary Wharf.
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LONDONS MOST CONNECTED LOCATION FAST ACCESS TO CANARY WHARF, The WEST END, THE CITY & BEYOND

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The Location:
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Excellent transport links mean City Island is very much part of the wider metropolis, with some of Londons best places to shop, work and play within easy reach. Major hub station Canning Town, located just minutes away across the new Island Bridge, offers speedy access to central London and the Square Mile as well as mainland Europe via City Airport. This connectivity is powering City Islands evolution into a magnetic destination for the capital, a maritime setting infused with the energy of Londons key cultural quarters. These links will soon be further enhanced by Crossrail - the high-speed rail link connecting East London and the West at nearby Custom House.

Its a short trip to the vibrant nightlife and shopping of Shoreditch and Dalston, now home to several cinemas and countless galleries in all shapes and sizes. There are iconic and historic markets such as those at Spitalfields, Columbia Rd and London Fields. Theres Stratford, with the Olympic Park and Westfield shopping centre, offering almost two million square feet of shops and eateries plus a seventeenscreen Vue cinema and a casino. And theres Whitechapel with one of Londons finest galleries as well as world-famous curry houses like Tayyabs and Lahore. Not to mention the beguiling walkways and ornate riverboats to be explored along the middle sections of the river Lea itself, or the remarkable views of the widening

Thames to be witnessed further east at the award-winning Thames Barrier Park. Right across the water, the Greenwich Peninsula (reachable by the spectacular Emirates Cable Car or just one stop on the Jubilee Line) houses the vast entertainment complex of the O2 Arena as well as Ravensbourne College, the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park and public art that includes a 30-metre-high sculpture by Antony Gormley. The nearby Excel Centre is host to a constant stream of visitors who come for an event programme exploring everything from fine wine to fine boats.

City Island presents a connected, twentyfirst century and 24-hour vision of the urban island a place with a distinct and proud identity but also a network hub, a focal point for the surrounding culture.

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Stanmore Canons Park Queensbury Kingsbury

Westfield Stratford

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THE JUBILEE LINE & THE REGENERATION OF LONDON

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Since its expansion in 1999, the Jubilee Line has been Londons most vital tube line, the fastest way to move between east and west. Its stations feature some of Londons most iconic architecture, while the destinations it opens up include Westfield Shopping Centre (Stratford), the O2 Arena (North Greenwich), Borough Market (London Bridge), Tate Modern and Southbank Centre (Waterloo), the Royal Parks (Green Park) and Marylebone High St (Baker Street).

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City Islands immediate surroundings are rich with places to shop, eat or explore.

At Canary Wharf everything can be enjoyed from high street shops to wine bars and dim sum, plus an ever-growing cultural offering including a branch of the Museum of London dedicated to telling the story of the Thames and Docklands. A short walk to the south, on the Islands sister peninsula, is Trinity Buoy Wharf home to several large cultural organisations alongside a network of art, design and photography studios as well as a diner and a international drawing school.

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With the biggest concentration of artists in Europe, East Londons streetscapes are an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colour.

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The neighbourhood will be woven into the vibrant creative and commercial economies of East London.

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THE VISION

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AN ISLAND NEIGHBOURHOOD
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Rising up at the point where the Thames meets the river Lea, this opulent, multifaceted area set against big river skies and stunning views is a cooler sibling to the mighty skyscrapers and bright, modern shops and restaurants of Canary Wharf.

City Island is a unique new riverside neighbourhood, a twelve acre microManhattan by Londons most exciting creative and commercial districts.

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ORCHARD PLACE

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CITY ISLAND AT A GLANCE:

1706 Apartments

Leisure: 1801sqm Offices: 4502sqm Arts: 2049sqm

Retail: 1852sqm

Creative Industry: 2714sqm

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Above the landscape is the cityscape, a striking cluster of buildings set against the dramatic Thames skyline. Seen from boats, trains even planes this powerful presence on the Thames skyline is designed to be clearly, unmistakeably that of City Island.

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The colours of the Islands ten major buildings are not just eye-catching, but link specifically to the local area, replicating pigments used throughout Leamouths history of artisan and maritime production. In the world of seafaring, objects have always needed to be legible from a distance. Its why youll find echoes of these colours a little to the south at Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse, which is where youll also find the source of the distinctive crisscross Faraday Cage pattern that is found throughout the Island, named after the electrical scientist, Michael Faraday, who used the lighthouse for his historic experiments.

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These local aesthetic themes have been combined with inspirations from the Earths most extraordinary waterside cityscapes: the way that Chicagos skyscrapers rise up high above the trees at Burnham Park; the oceanside buildings somehow both sophisticated and cartoon-like at Makuhari Bay in Tokyo; and of course Manhattan, recognisable in any photo with a single glance.

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SIMPLE, STRONG & ARCHITECTURALLY DISTINCTIVE THE DESIGN FOR CITY ISLAND DRAWs INSPIRATION FROM THE GREAT CITIES OF THE WORLD SUCH AS CHICAGO WHERE THE URBAN METROPOLIS IS FRAMED BY A TREE LINED WATERFRONT.

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A SINGLE STRIKING COLOUR HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR EACH OF CITY ISLANDS BUILDINGS blue, WHITE, black, orange, red.

The impressive structures feature high-quality, three-dimensional detailing but also give the impression of each been hewn from a single mass, with varying arrangements of balconies, windows and occasional dramatic recesses (which operate, for example, as communal balconies). The development is being completed with the environment, both visual and ecological, in mind: the construction process for each building is being reviewed against the Code for Sustainable Homes, with active measures being taken to reduce CO2 emissions across the board and increase energy efficiency. Parking is ample but discreet.

The visual identity of the island is defined by its innovative use OF strong, distinctive and earnest materials, a nod to the areas artisan past.

At close quarters, each building reveals a distinct architectural character that responds carefully to its specific context within the islands masterplan.

Building heights range from three storeys to twenty-seven storeys, with varying arrangements of balconies, windows, bronze-clad plinths and canopies. The Orchard Building, complete with the City Island Social Club, in-house health and lifestyle facilities, sees its ground floor bisected by a heated outdoor pool alongside the Waterline Park. High up on the roof of one building is a spectacular, lawned sports pitch.

City Island combines the best contemporary architecture with the built vernacular of islands and island-style communities.

The variety of style, size and character displayed by City Islands buildings will delight lovers of contemporary architecture. A top priority of the masterplan is to maximise each buildings river frontage.

Balconies, terraces AND Juliets Provide incredible river VIEWS AND OUTDOOR LIVING SPACES.

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THE BUILDINGS cascade TOWARDS THE Thames ensuring RIVER VISTAS ACROSS CITY ISLAND.

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Any island is a landscape. City Islands landscape and public spaces draw inspiration from both the visual language of the maritime era and the natural and cultural ecosystems that belong to all islands, whether tropical or urban. With several different designers bringing complementary but diverse visions to different parts of the Island, creating a multi-faceted and multi-layered experience that changes with every hour, day and season. Swathed in gingko trees City Island will, on approach, be a lush, almost exotic presence. The trees lime green hue in spring transforms to a bright, warm yellow in autumn. It blends with soft shades of river and sky but forms a defined contrast
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The plan for City Island has been inspired by the best metropolitan islands around the world. Think of the sense of identity that beams out of Manhattan in New York, or Venice in Italy.

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with the islands sharp red bridge and walkways. This shade of red is drawn from local history, from the nineteenthcentury merchant ships that valued clarity and visibility as a priority in everything from map making to painted ship hulls, a maritime colour choice echoed in contemporary shipping containers. Strands of the red will run through the island, a unique form of way-making that will help visitors to navigate their way between public spaces, waterways and buildings.

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On the watery limits of City Island is Waterline Park, a network of tidal terraces, jetties, knolls and platforms that allow close contact with the river. Some promontories allow you to sit out on a rock and look over the water, while others shoot right down to the waters edge and take in a lower horizon to those visible from street level. Further north, towards Island Bridge, a paved square forms a kind of island marketplace, framed by simple sculptural forms, elevated forest islands and a light column for night-time illumination. With its own stage, this is a location for cultural events, markets and al fresco relaxation.

The word island doesnt just mean a piece of land bounded by water, but also a place which is distinct in some way to the places that surround it.

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For City Island, this difference is in a changeable landscape, enriched and enlivened by regular events, which at once reflects Leamouths history and reimagines it for a new century.
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Towards the southern extent is Orchard Place, a wooded clearing that seems, on first encounter, like a classically designed garden square but soon reveals several ingenious contemporary twists.
The trees, for instance, are in mobile containers. It is a forest clearing but with a moveable forest, the designs of the trees containers echoing the tea-chest cargo boxes of the East India Dock Company. There are forest sculptures and raised plinths or makers pads for showcasing creative work, and a slightly concave central space allows for events and public performances. One week it plays host to Midsummer Nights Dream, another to an opera with a forest backdrop. This is a new public space for London.

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Natural grasses and wildflowers evolve seasonally with the landscape, bringing a peaceful quality to Londons newest parks and squares.

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Orchard Place is where City Islands walkways converge, a public meeting space linking north, south, east and west.

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The rhythm of island life is defined by the vibrancy of its public spaces. THESE SPACES are carefully designed to combine hard and soft landscaping, activity and tranquility, culture and play.
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All of the Islands residents are members of the exclusive City Island Social Club. With membership comes access to a range of elegantly designed private facilities. Theres a clubhouse, CONCIERGE, A grocers shop, gymnasium, SPA & TREATMENT ROOMS, a screening room, pools and gardens.
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A network of services and facilities is designed to make sure City Island feelS like home whether you are inside your apartment or not.

The clubhouse is an elegant, stylish and comfortable place to relax with the newspapers or meet friends OVER A BOTTLE of wine.

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City Islands clubhouse, on the ground floor of one of the developments landmark buildings, takes the best elements of Londons most comfortable (and cool) members clubs to create the ideal place to socialise, hold meetings or just relax.

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The decor of the clubhouse lounge, library and games room combines luxury and beauty with industrial chic: glimpses of the criss-cross Faraday Cage pattern on the walls and a basketweave parquet wooden floor underfoot. There are single-seater leather chairs and four-seater Hepburn sofas. Sleek and simple lighting is offset with decadent contemporary chandeliers. In the games room you can enjoy tables for snooker and foosball, plus arcade machines featuring the best vintage video games. On a different wing of the same building is a chic local shop called simply The Grocer. This is a modern, spacious and carefully stocked store doubling as a top-end deli by day and friendly cafe/bar by night. Its essentially a contemporary

revival of the great tradition of local shops in bygone days, when customers were able to buy a bag of shopping, a cup of coffee, a pint of beer or a quick pint of milk, all under the same roof. Its replete with timber floors, red banquette seating, wide continental fridges and glazed, ceramic wall tiles an authentic, social and welcoming twenty-first century Grocer.

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The grocer is a modern and spacious store that operates as a deli and cafe/bar. Residents visiting this carefully stocked outlet and hang-out will be able to buy high-quality produce and provisions.

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FUTURE RESTAURANT SPACE

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The Grocer is an important hub for the island, a place to pick up both everyday essentials and luxury treats.

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The vision is simple: to provide a useful local store with a friendly face.

The hydro pool, treatment rooms, steam room and sauna provide respite and relaxation for residents of the Island.
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Making use of anodised aluminium to achieve that trademark shade of maritime red, the pool is an icon of chic City Island living.

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THE Gymnasium & POOL ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE RESIDENTS WITH THE ULTIMATE URBAN RESORT. fully-equipped with the latest equipment plus a hydro pool, leisure pool, HOT STONE, saunas and steam rooms THERES EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO WORKOUT OR RELAX.
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From the moment you enter the peninsula, you are within easy reach of a range of exclusive and stunningly designed locations. Alongside those mentioned above are gardens and sports pitches on high-up rooftops, and dedicated concierge services greet you at the reception to your building.

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Designed with a warehouse aesthetic, generous open plan living spaces and loft style features, City Islands apartments offer timeless quality with an urban edge.

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While belonging unmistakeably to the aesthetic of the Island as a whole with hints of the trademark maritime red and strong and distinctive materials the apartments are also hugely flexible. Every resident will find enough versatility here to bring their own individual interior vision to bear both in terms of decor and layout. Islands are, after all, havens of individuality, so every apartment in City Island is created with personality, and for personality. Sizes available vary from one bedroom suite to expansive penthouse. Views, whether from black metal-framed windows or private balconies, are spectacular in any season or at any time of day: the rivers Thames and Lea are a constant presence,

as are sight lines of landmarks such as the dazzling Canary Wharf cityscape, the otherworldly dome of the O2 Arena, the epochal Olympic Park and the baroque shape of St Pauls Cathedral, a reminder that the historic City of London is just a short trip on the Docklands Light Railway.

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The apartments have been designed to offer a contemporary, spacious feel that maximises the expansive views and allows each resident TO express their own vision for City Island life.
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The apartments draw on East Londons post-seafaring energy, drawing design ideas from the history of Leamouth and the creative energy of East London and tying them back into classic principles of flexible interior design.

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The promise of City Island is of a place where your sense of being at home comes with a sense of being part of one of Londons most exciting and exclusive neighbourhoods.

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There can be few more unique places to host guests than your own private piece of an exclusive London island. Expect dinner invitations to be quickly accepted.
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The open-plan kitchens are the height of smart design, combining BESPOKE shelves and cabinets WITH CONCEALED LIGHTING, a Hanging system for pans and key utensils AND high-spec EUROPEAN BRAND APPLIANCES.
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Small details are important, occasionally connecting the design ethic with the wider area and its history: above the composite stone work surface and white wall tiling, a glass panel is tinted the same maritime red as the Island bridges and swimming pool.

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notable design features in the bathrooms include the pristine tiling combining black, aquatic-green, and white, alternating between hexagonal and square.
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It also features semi-recessed wash basins and classic brassware in chrome finish. The bedrooms benefit from built-in wardrobes, while living areas include textured European oak engineered floors throughout. All apartments are reviewed against the Code for Sustainable Homes and are designed to meet wheelchair accessibility standards.

HIGHLY LIVEABLE SPACES THE ADJOINING BALCONY EXTENDS THE LIVING AREA OF THE ONE BEDROOM SUITE.
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SPECIFICATIONS
Main structure
Reinforced concrete frame on reinforced concrete piled foundations.

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Stairs Walls

In-situ or pre-cast concrete stairs with steel balustrades in common areas.

Flooring

Building envelope Floors Roof

Textured engineered oak floor boarding to hall, living area and kitchen. Hexagonal matt black ceramic floor tiles to bathrooms, ensuites and shower rooms. Fitted carpets to bedrooms.

External wall with quality brick finish.

Reinforced concrete slab with appropriate floor finishes (See flooring).

Party walls constructed from metal studwork finished on both sides with sound resistant plasterboard and acoustic insulation between, or structural concrete faced with plasterboard on both sides. Internal walls constructed from metal studwork or modern solid timber panels with plasterboard on each side and acoustic insulation where detailed.

appliances, comprising combination stainless steel multifunction electric oven, touch control ceramic hob and integrated extractor hood, fridge freezer and dishwasher. Combined washing machine/ tumble dryer located in separate utility cupboard. Fitted modular design kitchen units in semi-matt finish.

Wardrobes Bathrooms

Integrated wardrobes fitted in main bedrooms with custom designed painted feature doors with semi-matt finish.

Decoration

All internal walls painted with warm white washable emulsion, skirting and door frames painted with warm white eggshell paint finishes. Brick slip tiles optional to selected walls.

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High-performance membrane roofing overlaid with pre-cast paving and bio-roofs where applicable.

Balconies Ceilings

Windows

Where applicable, painted metal balconies constructed with painted steel handrails and composite decking boards.

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Double-glazed composite windows including opening lights, double-glazed composite doors to balconies with durable paint finish.

Suspended plasterboard with high-level feature recess ceilings with optional exposed concrete finish.

Composite stone worktops fitted with under-mounted stainless steel sink with contemporary deck mounted matt black taps. Feature tiled splash-backs. Concealed LED lighting to underside of overhead cupboards. Integrated

Fitted with custom designed modular cabinets in semi-matt finish with contrasting interior colour. Composite stone worktop with stainless steel under mounted sink and contemporary deck mounted taps with matt black finish. Tiled splash-backs in feature tile. Integrated appliances, comprising combination stainless steel multi-function electric oven, induction hob, concealed extractor hood, fridge-freezer, integrated dishwasher and combined washing machine/tumble dryer located in separate utility cupboard.

Fitted with white enamel bath with chrome finish thermostatic mixer tap. Feature shower and frameless glass bath screen. White ceramic wall-mounted WC with concealed cistern. Custom made white ceramic wash hand basin, with chrome lever mixer tap. White ceramic tiled walls with black feature border and floors tiled with matt finish hexagonal ceramic tiles. Bespoke wall mounted mirror finished cabinet in all bathrooms. Chrome finish heated towel rail.

Shower rooms

Specification as bathroom but fitted with white ceramic shower tray, thermostatic mixer and fixed showerhead with frameless glass shower screen.

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Kitchen
Oven
Product name: European manufactured single electric fan-forced oven. Location: All apartment kitchens.

Location: 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartment bathrooms.

Heating and hot water

Individually metered system provides heating and hot water from the developments central plant. Centralised wet heating system throughout.

Wall Mounted Shower Set

Hob

Product name: Contemporary style shower set. Finish: Polished chrome. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

Product name: European manufactured induction hob with stainless steel and black finish. Location: All apartment kitchens.

Shower Control

Electrics

Integrated Dishwasher

Product name: Contemporary style thermostat module. Finish: Polished chrome. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

Product name: European manufactured dishwasher with integrated panel. Location: All apartment kitchens.

Heated Towel Rack

Integrated Fridge Freezer

Product name: European manufactured fridge freezer with integrated panels. Location: All apartment kitchens.

Product name: Contemporary style heated ladder towel rail. Finish: Polished chrome. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

Energy efficient lighting in kitchen, hall, bathroom, shower room and ensuite, where appropriate. Switch plates and sockets in accordance with IEE regulations. TV/FM and telephone points for broadband internet access in living room and bedroom; communal satellite dish with connection points in living room and master bedroom. (Purchasers are responsible for their own connections and related charges for cost of services). Smoke/ heat detectors fitted as standard.

Toilet roll holder

Deck mounted kitchen sink mixer

Product name: Contemporary style deck mounted sink mixer tap. Finish: Matt black. Location: Deck mounted to all apartment kitchen work tops.

Product name: Contemporary style toilet tissue holder. Finish: Polished chrome. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

Management and security

WC, wall hung toilet pan.

Kitchen Extractor

Product name: Sanitary grade porcelain. Finish: Glazed white. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

Management and 24 hour security services located in the central estate management office. Video entry phone system connected to main entrance door. CCTV system provided to cover the whole estate.

Product name: European manufactured concealed extractor fan. Finish: Stainless steel. Location: All apartment kitchens.

Lever Flush

Kitchen Sink

Product name: Stainless steel undermounted sink. Finish: Stainless steel. Location: All apartment kitchens.

Product name: Contemporary style concealed cistern with push plate flush operation. Finish: Polished chrome. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

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Limited car parking at extra cost and subject to availability.

Elevators External

Vanity Washbasin

Elevators serve all floors.

Washing Machine

Product name: European manufactured Washer Dryer. Location: All apartment utility cupboards.

Product name: Wall hung white ceramic vanity washbasin. Finish: Glazed white enamel. Location: Suites, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom bathrooms.

Integrated Bath

Ground-level areas laid out and finished with a combination of architect-designed hard and soft landscaping with feature lighting.

Bathroom
Deck Mounted Basin Mixer
Product name: Contemporary style deck mounted taps. Finish: Polished chrome. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

Product name: Built in bath. Finish: White Enamel. Location: 1, 2 and 3 bedroom Bathroom apartments.

Leisure Facilities

Shower Tray

Health club with heated outdoor swimming pool, steam room, sauna, gymnasium and exercise areas.

Product name: Solid cast shower tray. Location: All ensuite and suite shower rooms.

City Island social club

Social club with private club amenities and games area.

Wall Mounted Bath Mixer with Shower Set

Wall Mounted Cabinet

Product name: Contemporary style. wall mounted bath mixer with shower set. Finish: Polished chrome.

Product Name: Bespoke mirrored wall mounted cabinet. Finish: Mirrored. Location: All apartment bathrooms.

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At Ballymore we dont just create properties but neighbourhoods. We want people to feel enriched by the places in which they live, and proud to be defined by them.

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PLACE MAKING
And we think the best way of achieving this is by exploring a locations surrounding culture, seeking out the people who are powering it and asking them to work with us to create something new. For City Island, we looked south to Trinity Buoy Wharf. In 1996, this formerly disused complex was transformed into a dedicated and vibrant centre for arts, enterprise and culture. A rolling programme of investment saw the waterbound enclave grow into one of Londons most remarkable creative districts, all gathered around a nineteenth-century experimental lighthouse. What was once a site for the making of coastal beacons and buoys became a home to creative entrepreneurs, artists studios and livework accommodation, its historic buildings repurposed for performance, exhibitions, cinema and installations. Powering it all was the imagination and drive of placemaker Eric Reynolds, whose company Urban Space Management has seen that Trinity Buoy Wharf remains a thriving community of businesses and artists to this day.
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Now, as placemaker and curator for City Island, Reynolds will work with Ballymore to bring a singular vision to this new part of Leamouth.

An area on its way to taking its place on a list of destinations such as Spitalfields, Greenwich and Camden Town, each also transformed thanks to Reynolds knack for harnessing Londons creative energy. Spitalfields, just east of the City of London, is a perfect example of this, having evolved into perhaps Londons most credible shopping venue thanks to a reinvention of the listed arts and crafts-style market hall. Camden Lock Market, founded at a formerly overlooked canal-side wharf in the mid 1970s, is now the focal point of Londons single most popular tourist attraction.

And the retail offering in Greenwich sees many thousands of weekend visitors throughout the year attracted by the idea of shopping and eating in an historic Thames-side setting.

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Ballymore and Eric Reynolds were instrumental in transforming Old Spitalfields Market into todays shopping and events destination.
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To define the neighbourhood of City Island, Ballymore will be work with Reynolds to extend and enhance the cultural energy found at Trinity Buoy Wharf. A curated programme of arts and events theatre performances, pop-up exhibitions, specialist food markets will sit among the carefully selected range of boutique shops and outstanding eateries.

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Ballymore has a reputation for bringing new large-scale projects into London in a way that responds to the local area, working closely with local stakeholders and leading design teams to create stunning developments that will be cherished by those who use them.
We believe that built developments mean nothing if they dont in some way improve, enrich or enhance peoples lives. Our past and future work in London stretches all the way from Hayes in the borough of Hillingdon towards Londons western boundaries to Minoco near the Thames Barrier, and we are proud of every project we are involved in. In the Docklands alone our projects include developments at New Providence Wharf, Mastermaker Rd, Baltimore Wharf, Pan Peninsula and Minoco, meaning City Island occurs in a geographical context we understand deeply. At New Providence Wharf, between City Island and Canary Wharf, we are creating a major new mixeduse riverside development featuring two towers the Ontario Tower and the Providence Tower and the Radisson Edwardian Hotel. Many parallels can also be drawn between this exciting evolution of City Island and our development at 21 Wapping Lane, further to the west but still within the vibrant creative districts of East London. Historic Wapping was also a maritime peninsula, and a home to the mighty docks of the British Empire, and has also reinvented itself as a cultural district. Our development at 21 Wapping Lane is an entirely modern intervention, that also draws from a locations past without being confined by it. Five new buildings at this address provide 385 new residential units. At Embassy Gardens in Battersea, we have been fortunate enough to be involved in one of the most exciting and ambitious development opportunities remaining in London. With the US government building their new embassy on 5 acres, we are developing the retained 15 acres, drawing inspiration from the attractive residential and commercial estates which evolved over time in cities like New York and Boston not inappropriate, we feel, as the new US embassy quarter will be a close neighbour. The two thousand new homes here will be served by more than 100,000 sq. ft of retail and leisure space part of which will also include a members club. In Londons northwest, at West Hampstead Square, we are not just opening up four shops, a restaurant and a new food market in a garden-heavy complex offering almost two hundred new homes, but creating a brand new public square in the heart of London. And in Hayes, out along the historic Grand Union Canal, is High Point Village, which, within easy reach of Heathrow, Paddington and on the route of the forthcoming Crossrail, has been designed to be an oasis of calm and community within an otherwise busy, driven world. Ballymore has been behind many of the most stunning and creatively executed new developments that this great metropolis has seen. City Island is one of the most exciting yet.

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WEST HAMPSTEAD SQUARE -

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Beaux Arts Building -

A new public square for London, one of the most exciting residential opportunities in central London this year West Hampstead SQ, a bold blend of past and present right in the heart of London. West Hampstead SQ is a fusion of local heritage with contemporary tastes to create innovatively styled apartments and a new village hub in the form of the square all the while retaining the hallmark of quality that Ballymore is renowned for.

An award-winning development of 180 loft apartments and penthouses. Originally built in 1909, the Beaux Arts Building has been transformed to offer a range of unique luxury loft apartments and duplex penthouses with a grand exquisitely detailed foyer to the monumental faade.

A SELECTION OF PROJECTS BY BALLYMORE

High Point Village Hayes, London

St Johns London

Arranged around the ancient gardens of St Johns in Westminster, this is an awardwinning development of superior apartments close to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. Originally of NeoGeorgian brick and stone construction, St Johns is a blend of contemporary style with traditional build quality.

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Since our restoration and redevelopment of the grade 2 listed buildings at Old Spitalfields Market, it has become a lively meeting place, with thriving market stalls, shops, bars, restaurants and cafs, and it is now ranked as one of Londons top ten visitor attractions.

New Providence Wharf, including Ontario Tower and Providence Tower, stretches back some 400m from the river, with a depth and a substance few other riverside developments have achieved. It has received worldwide acclaim as a fine example of residential, hotel, retail and leisure development.

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Our development at 21 Wapping Lane is an entirely modern intervention in one of Londons oldest village settlements, designed to offer primarily residential accommodation, but also retail, leisure and recreation facilities. It brings a new interpretation to riverside life with an injection of bright urban vitality.

High Point Village offers everything youd expect from a new, urban quarter within easy reach of Heathrow, Paddington, the City and Canary Wharf. It has been designed to offer an oasis of calm in an otherwise driven world, giving its residents a sense of community often lacking in more anonymous city developments.

Embassy Gardens Nine Elms, London

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Few development opportunities in London can offer the sheer scope of the Nine Elms project in Battersea. Next to the site of the new US embassy building, we are creating an entirely new district for London, drawing inspiration from the residential and commercial estates which evolved over time in New York and Boston.

Standing head and shoulders above any other residential development in London, Pan Peninsula is a fine example of how inspired thinking can rise to the occasion. Drawing inspiration from North America and South East Asia, Pan Peninsula is a spectacular building that has become an outstanding London landmark.

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The Ballymore Design Cube is an inspired workplace for our Sales and Creative teams, fostering creative thinking and innovation.

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BALLYMORE We are an international property investment and development company, focused on large scale projects across Europe. A leader in urban regeneration, Ballymore is distinguished from other property developers by the breadth of our involvement, the way in which we lead projects every step of the way. And we remain fully committed to our buildings, through our estate management teams, long after the last unit has been sold and the marketing suite has been moved out. Importantly, we never forget that were building for people; if anything can be said to characterise a Ballymore development, it would be its human dimension. If we can also create buildings that make a positive, sustainable and lasting impact on the landscape, so much the better.

local context. The formula combines imaginative promotion, close involvement with the arts, and above all nurturing of small business, in which a market is often an important ingredient.

Camlins The manner in which we inhabit the land and the marks upon it which result are the raw materials of landscape architecture. Camlins aspire to interpret this archive and ultimately to achieve fluency in the language of landscape. Having deciphered the code or sequence of signals bequeathed by nature and the lands former inhabitants, contemporary marks may then be made with conviction. Founded in 1980 by Robert Camlin, and formerly trading as Camlin Lonsdale, Camlins now possess a portfolio of award winning Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Masterplanning projects throughout the UK and Ireland.

GLEN HOWells ARCHITECTS Glenn Howells Architects has built a strong reputation over the last 22 years for delivering design excellence and high quality, award-winning projects. In addition to being short listed for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2007 and winning the British Council for Offices, Best of the Best Award in 2010, we have received over 80 national awards. With offices in Birmingham and London, we have a broad range of expertise from master planning, infrastructure, feasibility studies, concept design through to full architectural construction design, landscape and urban design. Our diverse range of national and international projects include offices, sustainable housing communities, theatres, visitor centres, aparthotels, education buildings and mixed use schemes for both private and public clients.

Woods Bagot Woods Bagot is a leading global architecture and consulting firm, with a team of over 700 people working across Australia, Asia, Middle East, Europe and North America. The firms unique One Global Studio philosophy drives unprecedented knowledge sharing and true collaboration across time zones, producing innovative, inspired and functional design solutions. Underpinning Woods Bagots knowledge culture is Public, our research arm, created in collaboration with leading thinkers and academics. Specialising in the key sectors of Aviation and Transport, Lifestyle, Workplace, Education, Science and Health, our diverse portfolio of highprofile projects spans more than 140 years, a legacy of design excellence.
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Urban Space Management Urban Space Management has been a prime mover in the creation of attractive, affordable retail initiatives since the company was started by Eric Reynolds in 1970. Whether the challenge is breathing new life into derelict sites, reviving jaded retail centres, conserving heritage buildings or creating vibrant new places, USM has long and wide experience in practical development, common sense consultancy, hands-on retail management, and bringing national expertise to the

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This brochure and the information contained in it does not form part of any contract, and while reasonable effort has been made to ensure accuracy, this cannot be guaranteed and no representation or warranty is made in that regard. Apartment designs and layouts are indicative only and may change. The specification of the apartments is the anticipated specification as at the date this brochure was prepared, but may be subject to change in accordance with permitted variances under the apartment sale contracts. Computer generated images and photos are indicative only. All sales remain subject to contract. All information regarding prospective commercial or retail tenants represents current intention only, and the final identity of the tenants may change. Furniture shown in Computer Generated Images and photos is not included in sales. London City Island and City Island are marketing names only and will not necessarily form part of the approved postal address. Neither the agents nor any person in their employ has any authority to make or give any representation warranty or guarantee (whether written or oral) in respect of or in relation to the development (or any parts thereof).

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