From the archives: Planning Canary Wharf, 1982-88

By Tom Lowe2025-02-06T07:00:00

Building charts the early years of what would become one of the world’s largest commercial districts

The transformation of the Isle of Dogs into one of the largest commercial districts in the world was arguably the biggest UK construction story of the 1980s. Mentioned in one form or another almost every week in the pages of Building, its creation was an epic saga which came to define the decade’s economic revival, and its boom and bust culture.

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