Although we know a lot of what will be going up in the area there's also many question marks - plots marked for redevelopment that easily make up the size again of what is being built on at the moment. Myself and Matt Bowker took a look at this and tried to work out just what the Canary Wharf area will look like in the years to come. The result is startling, even I was surprised at the incredible density of the whole CDB.

Copyright James Newman 2003. Click to Enlarge.

As you can see the changes are shocking, the area is so incredibly dense it gives any CBD in the world a run for its money. Although this illustration doesn't show the whole of South Quay as the view dissects the middle of it you get a real idea of cluster as it stretches from West (left) to East (right). Every single building is in scale to the nearest 4inches so it's also completely accurate.
The Riverside South Towers stand pretty much alone thanks to the geography of the area with roads cutting through the far west, but then it quickly rises up. We put a standard building on the Tarmac Heron Quays site as boring and corporate as the other Heron Quays buildings. Arrowhead Quay is completely dwarfed by the yellow Allsop proposal which despite some criticism for it's avante garde design makes a hell of a difference by living up the whole area. To it's east is an empty plot so like all good CBDs we stuck a standard observation tower in. You can see the existing Canada Square behind it.
Infront of Citigroup is 1 Millharbour residential development as proposed by Ballymore and just behind Citigroup you can make out one of the North Quay towers to the West and a tower on Billingsgate to the right. A second Billingsgate tower is visible behind Barclays h.q.
The five towers on the far right of the picture in the East are on Woodwharf which we expect to see between 3 and 4 million square feet of space built on. As you can see they step down in height as they get nearer to the edge due to the proximity of the area to City Airport.
Don't take this as gospel as it isn't, it's just a look at what could happen. Let's hope it does.