The first stage in the Masterplan for the Town Centre of the London Borough of Barking, was to provide 200 flats in two new parallel blocks illustrated in the commercial photography and architectural photography.  They are built above the refurbished library which is to become a child and adult education facility fronted by a new public square designed by Landscape Architect Muf and provide a good subject for commercial photography and architectural photography. Its roof is the shared private garden between the blocks.  Elevations have a distinctive aluminium skin with coloured glass mosaic balconies that create strong commercial photography and architectural photography images and suggest the varying programme.

Phase 2 of the development around Barking Town Hall and its new plaza completes an architectural ensemble grouped on either side of a compact urban woodland called the Arboretum.  To the immediate east of the new Arboretum is the recently completed apartment building and Learning Centre of Phase 1 which establishes the identity of the whole scheme and commercial photography and architectural photography.  To the West and North are four of the new Phase II buildings, and one further residential block on Axe Street to the East of Phase 1. They are deliberately mixed in both character and size and great subjects for commercial photography and architectural photography.  The residential accommodation in the scheme contains a variety of high specification 1, 2 and 3 bed units, each with private amenity spaces.

The scheme incorporates a sustainability strategy providing 10% renewables through bio mass heating and wind turbines. Consideration is given to the material choices and the scheme includes both brown and green roofs.