Proposal Model @ 1:500

The tree urbanism takes the form of a series of landscape blocks running north-south. Each block has a direct relationship to an adjacent city block. The composition creates a succession of diverse unprogrammed 'column and canopy' spaces. The space directly behind the Tate is occupied by a new timber building of two flexible colonnaded hall spaces.

This is a pleasure garden for Londoners, harking back to the private gardens, public bear-baiting pits, illegal inns and whore-houses that made Southwark the City's 'pleasure garden' in the 15th and 16th centuries.