Urban Space Reviews

Fabulous Thames-side bar, complete with deck chairs and stellar views Weds-Sun, plus a cafe and burger bar.

One of the best kept secrets in London, A visit is must so much to take in admire if your an art lover

Cute little lighthouse. The longplayer is strange and worth a look.

Lovely place to visit lots of history and great views.

Ten minutes walk from Canning Town Station. Great arts centre and home of Long Player ( in the lighthouse). Good reasonably priced food and drinks available locally.

Good venue to have events and can have food and got on a bit to the o2

Great place to visit. Plenty of hip cafes and a great view of the thames

Beautiful art dotted all over very quiet place in the heart of the city

Went on Saturday looked like it would be interesting but not much going on .

Trinity Buoy Wharf is the site of London's only lighthouse, which incidentally doesn't work anymore. Now the site is a exhibition, art studio and office complex made from recycled sea shipping containers and former naval buildings, hence the name of "Container City".

Lots to see and do around this creative hub in East London, but more for professional artists than anything else as it didn't look like you could enter the workshops.

Hidden gem, nice artifacts to look at and Fatboy's nearby to have something to eat.

Amazing place characterized by art installations, innovative architecture based on shipping containers and historical landmarks, like the Bow Creek Lighthouse.

No longer functions but well preserved, the lighthouse today is used as location for art projects. I am not sure, but I don't remember any other lighthouse in London, so this is just incredible!

The wharf was once a maintenance depot and storage for the many buoys that time ago were used along the Thames to aid the navigation.

A cool place to chill out for an hour, visit Longplayer, Faraday s hut, and the cafes... seep in the art culture. A really chilled place to visit away from the hustle and bustle of London.

While your there make sure you find and answer the phone.

Great for exploration weekend, with the lighthouse , and the long place it's a place of zen!

Amazing, incredibly historical place and two lovely cafes on the site.
Faraday worshop, The old lighthouse, Lightship vessel ....the list goes on!

Beautiful scenic spot.. with nice cafe/coffee shop and diner. A number heart galleries and made this area their home as the environment has lots of character to it. Little bits of history about Michael Faraday are also on display.

Tucked away, but worth a visit. Ultra cool container park full of artists and creatives. Great to walk around as it's right by the Thames opposite the O2 Greenwich.

Tons of history, Faraday's hut is very cool.

Container city and an excellent example of mixed use that offers constant flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Amazing centre/base for independent arts, in amongst an otherwise gentrfied/regenerated pocket of London

Went to Longplayer. Really enjoyed seeing the bowls and chilling in the listening point. Great views of the river and a good photo spot.

Fantastic venue personal for your individual requirements. The facilities were clean. The staff helpful. Had a gr8 time at the wedding of Mr and Mrs Onilude 26.8.17. The weather made it exceptional too

Cool area on the bend of the Thames facing the O2 Arena. Home to artist studios, rehearsal spaces, cafes and more.

A relaxing spot! Awesome views of the bank. A Good view of the O2 arena

Spent the afternoon and evening at a wedding here. First of all the location on the Thames with the O2 on the opposite bank is pretty unique and made a brilliant location for a wedding ceremony and the party afterwards. Secondly it is a historic location with the Thames's only lighthouse and Faradays shed. Well worth a visit if you don't have a wedding to go to even better if you do!

Interesting place with good reviews of canary wharf and O2 across the river.

Quite an interesting place, from the lighthouse with the Long Player Himalayan bowls, humming their way through 1000 years, to the tiny Faraday museum-in-a-shed, the container architecture and the metal sculptures dotted around. On this More

An historic place with information boards to tell you the full history. A bit run down at present because of the building work . An excellent coffee shop in an old container.

I love this space, our kids do Parkhour there but it is so cool and so much history, great food and great stuff to see.

It is so amazing. It's a world of its own with so many quirky thing lurking round each corner looks beautiful at night!

Nice place to have a wander around! The easiest access to get to the wharf is from East India DLR station, although I walked from Canning Town through the City Island development.

There are a number of things to see at the Wharf including various event spaces - for example, there was a wedding reception being held whilst I was there.

I have separately reviewed Fatboy s diner , however I feel it is worth mentioning here that the food is really good.

There is also a separate cafe, container workshops, the red lightboat which I believe is a recording studio, a small museum about Faraday called The Faraday Effect , and Longplayer an art installation which has been playing music non-stop for nearly 20 years.

Lovely scenic views of the Thames, lots of super artistic companies work out of here too

Cool art installations. Nice River view. Great little cafe.

One of the great places in London where people live in luxury yet affordable containers, has the smallest museum in the world dedicated to discoverer of electro magentism and also its sits adjacent to the birthplace of West Ham United FC, the ironworks. Not a West Ham fan

The height of cool alongside practicality, artists studios and a 50's diner, amazing little secret quiet pocket of london including a very cool cafe some great history.

Decided to take a random ride into this place. It's quiet. Not much to do but it's really relaxing.

Really enjoyed my visit as part of Open Day. Met the founder and other staff. Walked through sensory gardens. Saw art piece on loan from Damien Hirst. New beer bottle bar seeking a name. Number of activities happen here. Opportunities to volunteer. Historic photos showing how the women used to move coke to fire the power stations of London. Demonstrates the power of renovation in a very industrial area. Right on river and they hope for Lea Walkway to fully open up which would make a lovely canal walk.

Nice area to visit but not easily accessible by public transport

Getting better, waiting for GLH to complete and place to get livelier and more services.

It's a small area, quite but interesting in terms of landscape. An amazing views of O2 arena and nearest skyscrapers. Good food in local shops and an interesting art center.

Travelled here for a wedding, absolutely lovely views, bit tricky to find via walking, but there's plenty around: food, travel and sighs(O2). Enjoyed my day there.

Some interesting places but at the moment just a development will definitely come when Finished!

Really beautiful modern location with gorgeous views

Fantastic spot,full of artist studios,a great cafe and lovely pieces of sculpture,good view across the Thames

Interesting area stumbled upon accidentally when out for a bike ride. Home to an art school, American diner, lighthouse, lovely cafe overlooking the river, offices, large events space and a variety of brightly coloured container studios.

One of my favourite spots in London. Packed full of history and interesting modern business.

It's quite difficult to walk to as there's lots of major building work around the site but worth going.

A very nice place to have private event. The oldest clock tower etc.

A motley but not incongruous complement of studios, workspaces, galleries, museum?, a school, cafe, s-crap metal, a tidal clock, boats, what's-his-names and what-have-we-here's randomly scattered about here. Intriguing, baffling and worth the effort. Check it out.

Interesting place for a visit - good options for a snack nearby

Great food great price. Nice environment inside and out.

Nice place with not too many people walking around a two little cafes . A gym . Nice views careful where you park though also not alot of spaces not easy to get to without car

Excellent structure
The tennis court very comfortable in addition to beautiful and large

Not much happening here, or at least not on the day I went. The views of the O2 and Canary Wharf are nice though...

The area is lovely and it's being developed. We popped into a small cafe next to the river.

Super discovery, small place where the ride is limited but there is plenty to discover, a small cabin, apparently the place belongs to a single man who rents premises and apartment.

Keep an eye out for some of the amazing graffiti on the walk down!

Fascinating place. Don't quite know how to describe it. A lot of empty space, a parkour academy, a fat boy American style diner, a cafe, all sorts of curious art installations and London's only lighthouse you can climb to the top and listen to a never ending music installation. See the mouth of the lea river. The place has quite a history and there is plenty to read there all about it.

Wonderful place very historical and great views across the Thames of the O2, good food in Fat Boys Diner

If you are in the area the wharf is worth a visit. There are notice boards with information about the history of the wharf. We were there on an open day and had the opportunity of trying a little stone masonary. There is an American style diner and a cafe.

A quirky, arty, bohemian area of London, the Trinity Wharf area is worth a visit before it becomes commercialsed beyond recognition. Lots of historical information signs line the road leading to the wharf and they're present around the wharf itself. A lot of the original wharf buildings, the Farady experimental lighthouse, a couple of cafes, art installations, etc., can be seen, as well as container city, a development of studios and live/work spaces in recycled shipping containers. A great view of the river and the 02 dome to boot.

Really quirky, creative enclave hidden away in the Docklands. The little cafe has a black cab on the roof with a tree coming out of it. Worth checking out if in you're in the area to see the art displays.

This is my favourite place in the whole of London. I've been to most areas of this amazing city to cover in my London Lifestyle Blog called Homegirl London. Trinity Buoy Wharf is stunning. It is an industrial wharf / docks which used to make buoys. It is now home to artists and creative businesses. Look around and you will spot art sculptures dotted around. There are colourful shipping container offices. You can eat at Fat Boy's American Diner or The Orchid Cafe. Make sure you visit if you love art, industrial landscapes and want to see something interesting. You get a great view of the O2 Arena which is opposite. You will find a lighthouse here as well!

Weird. They have a warehouse full of trees. Trees!!!

Really cool place with interesting installations and a wonderful diner

Excellent location for a wedding and lots of parking, beautiful views of canary wharf and o2

Great place to go if you are looking for a different aspect of London. History, and interesting details on lighthouses, buoys etc. I would not have missed it.