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Cascades Tower is a 20-storey residential building and a distinctive local landmark on the Isle of Dogs in Millwall, east London.[1] It was designed by Rex Wilkinson, a partner in the architectural firm CZWG, and built in 1987–88.[2][3]

The building has a concrete frame with details inspired by riverside industry and nautical themes. It has 168 residential units.[4]
Overlooking the River Thames on Westferry Road, it stands on land just south of the old western entrance to South Dock of the original West India Docks.[5]
The total height of the building structure is 194 feet (59 m). Cascade Tower was the first private high-rise housing development undertaken by The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to regenerate the depressed east London Docklands area.[6] 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".[7][8] The building is an exemplary architecture project of British Post-Modernism style.[9]
Cascades was the Winner of Architectural Brickwork Award in 1989,[10] and Grade II listed building in 2018.[11][12]
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Gallery
- Cascades Tower taken from the Britannic Hotel, Marsh Wall. September 2004.
- September 2009.
- March 2012.
- Cascades and Canary Wharf viewed from River Thames. August 2013.
- October 2014.
- Southwest View of the Cascades. August 2021.
- Cascades, Landmark Pinnacle, Landmark West and East Towers. February 2020
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