Masterplanning Projects

Masterplanning

Salisbury Square Development, London

A wealth of experience with urban design in a masterplanning role White City Masterplan, London

TWI, Granta Park, Cambridge

Deansgate, Manchester

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Introduction Eric Parry Architects' urban design throughout the UK and especially in the cities of London and Westminster is summarised here in the themes of Vision, Transformation, Community, Value, and Identity. They have for many years been at the centre of our work at the urban scale. We begin Vision with the familiar viewpoints and cityscape of Piccadilly, as a point of departure to the luxury of the Alpine scenery and the green natural beauty of Malaysia.

These range from a deeply rooted sense of the value of each site to its future ambition.

So in Value, we see designs often found at the centre of deeply-set historic fabric and institutions. An example of this is the London Stock Exchange at 10 Paternoster Square. This dialogue of the urban life and the nature of each site is explored in Identity, where we gave special focus to our rehabilitation of St Martin-in-the-Fields and its entire surroundings by Trafalgar Square.

Designs of this scale always entail a sense of Transformation the reader will see illustrated in our projects for London and Cambridge.

Every sensible transformation involves the lives of many people; and in Community, we see projects responding to a variety of daily needs and aspirations.

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Salisbury Square Development London

The City of London Corporation is leading a major project to create a new headquarters for the City of London Police and an 18-courtroom facility combining Magistrates, Crown and Civil Courts for HM Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS). After winning a restricted competition in November 2018, Eric Parry Architects and a wider design team were instructed to develop the design proposals to form a planning submission for the redevelopment of the site.

The objective of the Salisbury Square Development project is to create a world class and state-of-the-art civic site, ensuring our globally renowned justice system has everything it needs to thrive in the 21st century whilst also taking into account

changing public health needs and working requirements. The brief calls for a flagship facility for the City of London Police and the Ministry of Justice, creating a new legal quarter through a synergy of law enforcement and legal excellence with a focus on Fraud, Economic and Cybercrime. The three new buildings are proposed to sit, together with a retained and re-purposed Grade II Listed building, within a generous and fully accessible public realm designed by BHSLA. The public space incorporates and extends the historic Salisbury Square and its surroundings.

The new civic centre will be on the south side of Fleet Street, in the historic Square Mile and at the heart of the capital’s legal and financial services cluster. The Central Criminal Court (or Old Bailey) is just 500 m away to the east and the Royal Courts of Justice is 650 m to the west.

The Salisbury Square Development will also help to re-establish and reinvigorate this part of the local area, famous as the former home of the newspaper industry.

This site prominently located in the ‘processional route’ between Westminster and St Paul’s Cathedral with enormous traditional significance and is still used as the Annual Lord Mayor’s Parade route and for other significant events. The area

became associated with the legal profession in the 16th century, and it was due to the educational and legal centres at Inner Temple and their consistent demand for printed literature that the site was later developed for the purposes of printing and publishing, which in turn led to the 20th century developments for the newspaper industry and baron palaces.

The designs will consider not just the particular and complex needs of the City of London Police and HMCTS, but also how we can create welcoming public spaces, a more open and accessible environment for pedestrians and cyclists and a much better experience for those who live and work in the area.

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One Chamberlain Square Birmingham

Historically Birmingham and the Black Country has a strong connection with glazed ceramics, craft and manufacturing and a proximity to the Potteries.

The curvaceous eight-storey One Chamberlain Square was the first building in Argent’s £700m Paradise scheme in the heart of Birmingham to be delivered. It offers 150,000 sq ft of office space fitted with floorto-ceiling glazing and 22,000 sq ft of ground floor restaurant and retail space.

One Chamberlain Square sought to echo and pay tribute to this history in its finelycrafted bespoke façade of a lustrous twicefired faience with a grey/white ceramic glaze, which reflects the Anglesey limestone material palette of the nearby town hall.

The complex façade incorporates polished pre-cast, antique bronze-framed shop fronts at ground level and extensive glazing with vertical extruded glazed clay fins on the upper office levels that complement the neighbouring civic architecture.

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The organic curved form of the building was developed to respond to its 360-degree aspect and provide a dynamic form with different urban conditions for each façade.

It reflects a sense of movement to the surrounding squares and streets and is continually changing depending on the daylight and the position of the observer.

From a sustainability point of view the project is exemplary. Its external façades were modelled extensively and the heat gains reduced with the deep reveals articulated by the vertical ceramic fins and horizontal shades, which provide added solar control to the glazing. High efficiency LED lighting was used throughout.

At level 6 the building provides a large landscaped roof terrace (of over 600 sq m) with granite paving and a faience guardrail.

From here the building’s occupants enjoy an elevated vantage point with panoramic views across to the museum, town hall and city beyond.

The whole building was successfully pre-let to PwC during construction to serve as their regional HQ. The firm recognised it offered them the opportunity to attract and retain the best talent in the city.

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4 Pancras Square London

The Argent development at King’s Cross is one of the most significant new urban developments in London and one that will receive worldwide attention. The site is located to the north of the existing King’s Cross railway station, adjacent to St Pancras International Station on brownfield land.

At that time the cast iron gasometer was still located on the site of the proposed Pancras Square and this informed the proposal for an expressed steel frame to this office building.

Eric Parry Architects was commissioned in 2003 to prepare an initial design for 4 Pancras Square to test the Masterplan proposal.

The building consists of 10 storeys of office above ground floor reception and retail with two floors of basement below and was completed in June 2017.

The materials of the façade consist of weathering steel and white glazed ceramic for the horizontal brise soleil shading.

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The Goodsyard London, E1

The client is a Joint Venture between Hammerson and Ballymore. Eric Parry Architects has been commissioned to develop a building for Plot 2 of The Bishopsgate Goodsyard masterplan to allow a detailed planning application to be submitted as part of an overall outline Planning Masterplan.

Our building at Plot 2 is the flagship commercial building on the western prow of the Goodsyard delivering approximately 47,000 m² NIA office space and retail uses at ground and the Platform level and is integrated into the heritage-rich, partly-listed world of brick archways, the remains of the Bishopsgate Goodsyard Station.

The new building will include 15% affordable office space and 25-30% co-working spaces. (The affordable space may be part of the co-working space).

Plot 2, The Goodsyard Client: Ballymore Properties Limited Hammerson UK Properties plc

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Granta Park Great Abington, Cambridgeshire

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The first phase was Granta Park, a development of new R&D labs totally 50,000 sqm in the Green Belt, which meant demonstrating the need for specialised high-tech workspace as well as achieving exacting standards of sustainability and design quality.

The creation of Granta Park, a joint development between MEPC and TWI in the 1990s, provided the first opportunity to make a significant investment into the existing building stock of the Welding Institute Facilities and provide much needed modern accommodation.

Working with Latz + Partner, we turned agricultural land into a working environment for science and technology, meeting the standards of research laboratories as well as minimising impact on the environment. It has sustainable traffic, water and sewage systems, as well as series of amenities which foster communal interaction, such as a cricket pitch, restaurant and conference facilities. Its profits went towards The Welding Institute’s own expansion plans.

The original masterplan was started in 1992 with the acquisition of 87 acres of farm land, on which Granta Park Phase 1 is now built with the basic concept of a high quality, low density, fully landscaped development.

The masterplan for the park was developed in consideration of ecological criteria, with the aim of preserving and enhancing the existing rural landscape and ensuring the site would be easily accessible.

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The Cambridge Science Cluster is world renowned for research and education and makes an excellent base for multinational innovative companies.

Throughout the subsequent 15 years the site was transformed from arable farmland to the highly successful science park it is today. With a vision to provide the very best purpose-built research facilities in a high quality landscape setting, Granta Park is recognised as a highly successful science park. After Granta Park successfully generated funds for The Welding Institute’s own development, we moved onto phase 2 of the masterplan in 2011.

The brief was to create extended facilities to the existing Welding Institute, including new catering facilities as well as further office and research spaces.

This involved careful analysis of The Welding Institute’s operational needs and costs as well as planning regulations. Our goal was to set out an optimum path to transform an existing estate to fit it for the future needs of this complex organisation. Working with the planning authority, we devised an optimum path within appropriate parameters of cost, planning, conservation and daily use, identifying which buildings have potential to suit future purposes and where selective new build will be most effective.

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In 2015 we were commissioned to undertake an outline planning application for a Phase 3 masterplan addition to the original Granta Park development. The concept of the masterplan proposal is to create a new landscaped park that links the listed Abington Hall and Repton landscape scheme at its foreground with the new crescent-like pavilion style buildings by a 400m stretch of new beautiful landscaping.

The series of lakes created will link the developments together visually and will provide a foreground setting to the buildings.

Granta Park Client: Granta Park Landscape Architect: Latz + Partner; Jo Morrison Date: 1996 - 1999 Uses: Research & Development (offices and labs) Areas: Landscaped park and master plan: 550 ha; R&D: 50,000 sqm

The original vistas and avenues as well as sightlines created by the Phase 1 masterplan were carefully considered with this proposal in order to link the two phases together and enable long east-west vistas through the entire science park.

Water will be a predominant feature that is introduced as an integral feature to the centred landscape. The series of lakes created will link the developments together visually and will provide a foreground setting to the buildings.

Thresholds and landscape interfaces have been carefully considered as part of the design development to create a sense of continuity between landscape and buildings.

Granta Park Amenity Building Client: Granta Park Landscape Architect: Latz + Partner; Jo Morrison Dates: 1998 - 2000 Uses: Restaurant, conference rooms and start-up offices

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The Welding Institute Granta Park

Eric Parry Architects was commissioned to design the Masterplan for Granta Park in the mid 1990s by the then owner MEPC. Throughout the subsequent 16 years the site has been transformed from arable farmland into the highly successful science park it is today.

Following the recent completion of a restructuring of the ownership of Granta Park, The Welding Institute have been able to transform their site and create the accommodation suited to their needs.

Three new buildings house amenity operations, a NSIRC education facility and an engineering hall including heavy and light engineering laboratories and office accommodation.

The project won a RIBA National & East Region Award (2017).

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Cambridge Assessment Cambridge

Cambridge Assessment is the agency of Cambridge University which oversees school exams worldwide, and has transformed ways and means of assessing educational achievement many times over the last 150 years.

We have arranged these in short wings around courtyards, which recall the college quads. This also makes use of existing trees, maximises natural light and ventilation while allowing flexibility of layouts and team sizes.

...maximising natural light and ventilation while allowing flexibility of layouts...

The project is designed to accommodate 3,000 employees, with very limited carparking and ample facilities for bicycles.

A smart bus route adds to the transport management plan.

Looking to transform their working methods to keep it at the forefront of research and practice in educational assessment, they approached us to devise a masterplan which would provide a physical framework for this transformation. The 2.5 ha site is in a suburban part of Cambridge, which suggests a relatively low rise development of 4-5 floors.

The new complex marks one of the most important points of entry to Cambridge, by rail, road or bicycle. Its function and design recalls the University’s traditions and in replacing Cambridge University Press’s book warehouse symbolises their ongoing transformation in the 21st century.

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Norwich & Norfolk Hospital Norfolk

Located at the outskirts of Norwich as an open green field on the threshold between rural and urban communities our proposal for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital aims to move away from the homogeneity and centralisation of traditional hospital design with its focus on technology in favour of a smart decentralised approach orientated towards the patient, the family (visitor) and community The hospital is interpreted and organised as part of a town, structured yet differentiated, allowing individual areas to be treated with more freedom, greater respect to the conditions of the lives of the patients and the possibility of future expansion.

In creating a coherent setting of interdependent buildings around a central garden we considered the historic tradition of landscaping and nature as a restorative power of physical and spiritual well being. The therapeutic healing centres of the ancient Greeks at Asklepion of Pergamon or the Medieval Monastery Gardens of Germany (– e.g. Abbey Disibodenberg & Hildegard von Bingen) understood the vital connection between the green health of the natural world and the holistic health of the human being.

“No ward is in any sense a good ward in which the sick are not at all times supplied with pure air, light and due temperature”.

Florence Nightingale

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Landscape The landscape plays a fundamental role in the design of the hospital, the relationship between gardens, and physical and spiritual healing, plants, and medicine, has many historic precedents.

A series of differentiated territories are defined using changes in level, natural gradients, walls hedges and groupings of trees providing shelter from sun and wind both within the garden and the buildings.

Buildings are arranged towards the edge of the site, focussing inwards to the protective central garden.

Each building has a relationship and looks into the heart of the plan, a central garden, which is historically associated with the regeneration and recovery, both spiritual and physical.

At the more civic end next to the urban square, the landscape is characterised by more formal, crisp, and controlled planting, to the south the landscape changes into a cultivated wilderness of an informal woodland where diversity of planting of native species is a priority and the buildings are being carved into the solid mass of the trees.

The central garden is the heart of the scheme, around which smaller differentiated gardens are related to the specific activities such as therapeutic gardens, children’s gardens, herb gardens.

The central garden is regarded as a public place that can be enjoyed by staff, patients and visitors as means of access to the different parts of the hospital or simply for relaxation and reflection Public facilities such as tea pavilion, an aviary, a botanical garden, a herb garden, an arboretum, should encourage the public to visit the gardens for their own sake and thereby reinforce the relationship between the community and the hospital.

The buildings are themselves surrounded with individual gardens functioning as a means of healing specific to the hospital they serve.

Paved courtyards and enclosed gardens contain more controlled planting and create quiet spaces of different qualities, reflecting the various treatments.

Gardens associated with physical therapy provide opportunity for active participation, for the elderly the immediacy of seasonal changes provide familiar features reflecting a home environment.

Enclosures defining territories and specifically designed structures enhance a sense of involvement and even “ownership” for patients so they can identify with their part of the garden.

Water is attributed with having healing powers and plays an important role and is used to animate certain spaces with sounds and reflection.

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Paternoster’s value lies in the opportunity for large 84 scale new buildings of modern standards to replace the unloved 1950s commercial precinct which was obsolete by the 1980s.

After several false starts in the 1980s and 90s, William Whitfield co-ordinated a masterplan that found the necessary balance between history and commerce. Its brilliance was to create an urban grain that frames views of the cathedral with plots appropriate to modern commercial

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needs. It is centred around a small piazza looking towards the Deanery and Cathedral, but otherwise ringed by commercial buildings with retail and restaurant accommodation on the ground level. The plan also created several narrow alleys which frame iconic views of the cathedral dome, transepts and portico.

These joined the protected view corridors to become a three-dimensional mesh that fixed the volume of the new buildings. Our building, No. 10 Paternoster Square, optimised the complex volume for contemporary commercial purposes, and took advantage of the enhanced public realm so successfully that the London Stock Exchange chose it as their headquarters.

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No. 10 Paternoster Square took advantage of the enhanced public realm so successfully that the London Stock Exchange chose it as their headquarters.

Paternoster Square Client: Mitsubishi Estates Dates: 1999 - 2003 Uses: Offices Office areas: GEA = 33,213 sqm

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Church Path London, WC2N The Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields has a fascinating history and a vital role in social care within central London, as well as a cultural programme and activities for tourists, all of which inform its primary role as a religious centre.

Our main aim was to reset the urban frame for James Gibbs’ church and John Nash’s vestry.

Each of these factors influenced our refurbishment of the church and significant upgrading of its public and social facilities within a new Crypt below, and the reconstructed vestry and school buildings across, the renewed Church Path, and the masterplan for the entire precinct had to reflect this hybrid identity – and contribute to the wider public realm of this part of London which serves residents, commuters, tourists and many others.

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Our main aim was to reset the urban frame for James Gibbs’ church and John Nash’s vestry.

That led us to clear Church Path and churchyard, enhancing the pedestrian route between Trafalgar Square and the Strand.

Within Church Path we made two interventions which are the mirror image of each other: one a pair of interlocking crystal cylinders which provides the entrance to The Crypt, the other a similar shape punched through Church Path to bring light and allow views into The Crypt, and gives a glimpse to passers-by of the work of the Parish.

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Church Path Client: St Martin-in-the-Fields Date: 2002 - 2008 Uses: Church, social care facilities, residential, commercial and retail

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East Village London, E20

Our design for Plot N10 in the Athletes’ Village adjacent to the Olympic Park shows how robust masterplanning principles could provide flexibility to change from serving one community to another as efficiently as possible.

plan for the residential community and our interpretation of its principles within our site.

The overall plan determined the plot and building footprint and height, as well as the presumption of retail uses at ground level.

...an interpretation of the continental urban housing, of a block built out to the perimeter of the site around a private courtyard...

Our site lies at a junction between the main boulevard and an important cross route, which shaves a corner off the edge, with educational buildings to the east. We explored how these given physical conditions could interact with the likely patterns of movement through the area.

The brief required accommodation for 1,700 athletes during the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics – about 10% of the total number of competitors – and subsequent conversion to a total number of 281 apartments. We had to address different scales of masterplanning, with the two most important being the spatial

These in turn helped to give shape to the building itself, which is an interpretation of the Continental urban housing, of a block built out to the perimeter of the site around a private courtyard. Within this basic form we were able to optimise practical features like lift cores and servicing, as well as light and views.

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Rochester Innovation Park Singapore

Our competition entry focused on creating a venue that can enhance the vibrancy of the one-north community through a wide range of F&B offerings, a variety of co-work and serviced offices, exquisite hotel rooms and suites of community programs. It spanned an array of properties revoling round an underground auditorium, 'The Oculus' which is set into the hillside.

On the adjacent area of the site sits the 19-storey high rise building, adorned in glazed ceramic fins featuring an integrated sky garden.

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Nested within the lush greenery, the proposal integrated sensetively with the existing landscape, saught to improve the connectivity of the space and create a cohesive ecosystem of learning, working and living.

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Deansgate Manchester

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Deansgate was an invited competition to develop a mixed use masterplan for a 0.76 ha site located at the eastern end of Deansgate, Manchester. The site is facing the historical Medieval Quarter and Grade I listed Cathedral and is bounded by the River Irwell. The brief asks for 500-600 residential units and a 4 star hotel with 250 rooms set within an area of exemplary public realm.

This allows for easy access across the site from north to south or from Deansgate to the River’s edge to encourage as much public access and interaction as possible.

The buildings vary in height from 9 storeys at a shoulder height at the northern end of the site facing the Cathedral and along Deansgate, up to 26 storeys at the southern end on Blackfriars Street adjacent to the bridge. The shaping of the height has been carefully considered to minimise the impact of the taller buildings on the surrounding streets and existing urban context.

The proposal consists of four buildings, separated by generous pedestrianised streets, and a large landscaped public space overlooking the River Irwell.

A new riverside walkway is provided along the length of the site to the River Irwell connecting Blackfriars Bridge to Victoria Bridge.

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Our design will reconnect the existing Holland Village to the east to Buona Vista and the residential communities to the west through a welcoming porous commercial and residential development.

The material palette follows the traditions of painted masonry, fine finished concrete elements, and a colour palette of dark and white as found in the traditional bungalow architecture of Singapore.

The new Holland Village will be a vibrant landscape focused quarter, that will be a place for the whole community to enjoy during the day and night.

The two taller towers are separated from the base by a generous landscape terrace, which all residents can enjoy. The towers are designed to be like paper lanterns, wrapped in layered translucent glass panels to create a soft light veil to provide shade during the day, and gently glow in the evening.

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The buildings at the southern end in Zone 2 are three storeys. From here the buildings gradually step up in height, through six storeys and nine storey buildings as the crescent sweeps north.

At the northern end of the site, in Zone 1, a six storey elevated lower group of buildings frame the park and act as a base to the two 35 storey residential towers above.

At the southern end of the site the tail of the crescent defines the new public piazza, which acts as a focal point for both the new development and the whole area of Holland Village. The piazza is defined by an open canopy structure to the east, providing shade and shelter to an informal ‘stage’ area and by a four storey building to the north.

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40% of site are will be set aside for the Central Park. Including the greening of the roof gardens, the development will achieve a Landscape Replacement Area (LRA) of more than 100% of the total site area, of which more than 50% is permanent softscape.

Suvretta House St Moritz, Switzerland

Our masterplan offers a vision for the Suvretta House resort to continue providing luxurious immersion in magnificent Alpine scenery at any time for the foreseeable future. Using design to complement changing ideas of comfort. We propose to restore and extend the century-old Suvretta House Hotel, so that it again sets new standards for luxury as it did when it was built.

...the architecture provides a frame for different ways of enjoying nature...

We also introduce various private, highly serviced individual apartments where guests can enjoy the setting on their own, but with the knowledge

that six star service is at hand; and will add a four star ‘sports hotel’ for enthusiastic skiers, together with a new spa and sports school.

In each of these, the architecture provides a frame for different ways of enjoying nature.

The original hotel typifies traditional, formal, luxury; the individual apartments offer contemplative solitude; the sports hotel invites physical exercise as the basis for experiencing the natural world while the spa pampers the body.

Finally the sports school allows its students to broaden and deepen their relationships with nature. All the new development will meet high standards of environmental sustainability.

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Karambunai Malaysia

Our masterplan for 30,000 units on a 200 ha site in Eastern Malaysia combines the spectacular natural conditions of Borneo’s rainforest and coast with the finest traditions of urban planning to create a new city.

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It shows how a settlement can be planned to nurture and appreciate ecology within its urban form. Most successful cities combine nature and artifice, incorporating trees, parks and fountains, but here we bring whole swathes of rainforest right into the city.

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They connect to preserve mangroves at the water’s edge, and balancing raw nature with more cultivated parkways and avenues of trees along the main highways.

It will be a place for experiencing and understanding the natural beauty of the rainforest, in balance with sensitively planned streets, squares and buildings which recall the most attractive attributes of human society.

Conceived as an eco-resort, it will introduce new ways of thinking about how nature and artifice can exist symbiotically.

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White City London, W12

We gained planning consent for this mixed-use masterplan on a 5 ha former dairy site close to the BBC in West London. The masterplan includes 1,150 homes as well as office, retail and spaces for amenities, cafés and leisure activities.

By creating an attractive network of streets, pedestrian paths, public spaces and buildings, we gave a heart to a fragmented part of the city, introducing a new piece of public realm around which the new community can take shape, and a hub for connections that would animate and optimise relationships between people, businesses and amenities across the district.

Our proposal drew on detailed research, consultation and analysis to transform the site’s physical conditions to match its potential in a rapidly developing part of London. This ranges from soil decontamination to offsetting the effects of infrastructure.

Higher buildings, for example, shield the central square from the Westway, while an inviting pedestrian boulevard leads to the new station at Wood Lane, and beyond to local amenities like the Westfield Shopping Centre and workplaces like the BBC. High-quality landscape design throughout adds to the attraction of a well-balanced mix of activities and uses.

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Gateway Building New Bridge Link and Connection Entrance Court Spine Road Central Garden Courtyard Garden Ecology Walk

62 – 63