This scheme when complete will have set the standard for the major regeneration of this once declining London Satellite. Barking Central I involved the construction and fit out of a new library framed by a colonnade and topped by two parallel housing blocks separated by a communal residential roof garden and the creation of an open and a wooded public square designed by Muf. Barking Central II will complete the masterplan by connecting the colonnade to the existing street and shopping centre by way of a ‘bike’ store and shop building. An eighteen story tower, an office and two further residential buildings reset the new wooded square in an open frame, close off some backs and reintroduce historical routes and connections.