New 7,000-capacity warehouse venue set to open on Thames

Ironworks, located at a historic riverside site, will launch in October with a limited run of six shows.

The venue aims to create an immersive experience that combines festival-scale production with the raw energy of warehouse spaces.

Ironworks set to bring 7,000-capacity events to capital this autumn (Image: Grant Walker)

The 7,000-capacity venue, developed by LWE in partnership with placemaking organisation PROJEKT, features an open-air terrace overlooking the Thames.

The site, formerly home to the Thames Ironworks and shipbuilding yards, is steeped in history.

The development aims to pay homage to the site’s industrial past while creating a new space for electronic music fans.

The venue has been designed to incorporate the building’s history, with cutting-edge sound, lighting, and visual production working with the architecture to deliver high-impact, immersive shows.

A visual installation by the Museum of Youth Culture will explore the history of warehouse culture in London, bringing the stories and spirit of the scene into the fabric of the space.

Riverside space to host large-scale shows with immersive production (Image: Grant Walker)

The launch of Ironworks marks a return to first principles for LWE, a team long associated with London’s warehouse culture.

Over the past two decades, they have delivered landmark events at spaces including Turnmills, Great Suffolk Street, and Tobacco Dock, and played a defining role in the delivery of iconic music venue, Printworks London.

The launch of Ironworks also represents a commitment to the area.

The project works with local networks, independent businesses, and creative communities.

This includes dedicated ticket access for residents, opportunities for independent food traders, and employment connected to the venue’s launch and ongoing programme.

Ironworks is set to host just six shows this year, offering a rare opportunity to experience some of electronic music’s most in-demand figures in a raw warehouse setting with the highest quality sound and light production.

The full lineup details are set to be announced in June.

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The venue also aims to be a space for creative collaboration, with its supporters drawn from independent London-based collectives.

This approach reinforces the venue’s connection to the city, shaping it by its people and its creative communities.

In a city where independent cultural space is under increasing pressure, Ironworks offers something increasingly rare: room to gather, to lose yourself in sound, and to experience electronic music at scale in a setting that remains connected to the values that shaped it.

The launch of Ironworks also signals a new chapter for the Thames Wharf site.

The venue’s launch is set to bring thousands of people together around a shared moment that won’t be easily repeated, reactivating a piece of London’s industrial history for the present.

Ironworks is set to open in October 2026.