Cascades Tower is a 20-storey residential building and a distinctive local landmark on the

Isle of Dogs The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England, which includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts. The area was historically part of the Manor, Ham ...

in East London. It was designed by Rex Wilkinson, a partner in the celebrated architectural firm

CZWG CZWG Limited is a British architecture practice established in 1975 by Nick Campbell, Roger Zogolovitch, Rex Wilkinson and Piers Gough. The practice is known for its work in the postmodern style. Projects * Aztec West, Bristol * Bankside S ...

, and built in 1987–88. The building has a concrete frame with details inspired by riverside industry and nautical themes. It has 168 residential units. Overlooking River Thames, Cascades Tower is on 4 Westferry Road,

Canary Wharf Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Canary Wharf is defined by the Greater London Authority as being part of London's central business district, alongside Central Lo ...

, E14 8JL. It stands on land just south of the old western entrance to South Dock of the original

West India Docks The West India Docks are a series of three docks, quaysides and warehouses built to import goods from and export goods and occasionally passengers to the British West Indies on the Isle of Dogs in London the first of which opened in 1802. Follow ...

. The total height of the building structure is . Cascade Tower was the first private high-rise housing development undertaken by The

London Docklands Development Corporation The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was a quango agency set up by the UK Government in 1981 to regenerate the depressed Docklands area of east London. During its seventeen-year existence it was responsible for regenerating an a ...

(LDDC) to regenerate the depressed east

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area. It was completed at a time “when high rise was still a discredited building form for residential purposes, and two or three storeys was the norm”. The building is an exemplary architecture project of British Post-Modernism style. Cascades was the Winner of Architectural Brickwork Award in 1989, and

Grade II listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

building in 2018.Cascades, A Grade II Listed Building in Canary Wharf, London
ritish Listed Buildings, History in Structure. Retrieved 11 Feb 2023.

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Postmodernism in London , Touring a two bed in Cascades Tower
ouTube. Retrieved 11 Feb 2023 * Canary Wharf buildings Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Architecture of London Residential buildings completed in the 20th century Millwall {{London-struct-stub