Commercial Projects
THE TEAM SIMON KITCHIN DIRECTOR
Thea Thompson Associate
HAY JOUNG HWANG Landscape Architect
Gavin Hepp aite Landscape Architect/ Garden Designer
mike brizell Associate
Kasia Kaszowska Landscape Architect
Randle Siddeley Associates is an award winning, internationally recognised firm of landscape architects and designers that specialise in high quality design and implementation schemes for a broad range of clients. Our team of experienced professionals undertake innovative, sustainabledesignscombiningattentiontodetailwithpracticality. We pride ourselves on our ability to accurately interpret clients needs and aspirations in order to deliver excellence everytime.
Nathan Gulman Senior Landscape Architect/ IT Supporter
DIVYA UMAKANTH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Suzanne lange Landscape Architect
MINA JO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT ASSISTANT
Ali Paterson Consultant Architect/ Garden Designer
Jonathan Leavens Consultant Landscape Architect
HELEN BOWN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Jeremy Back Office Manager
RANDLE SIDDELEY MANAGING DIRECTOR
PROJECTS Randle Siddeley Associates have played a key role in a range of high profile commercial developments, with particular focus on the residential, leisure and retail sectors. Our experience in interpreting the complex social, economic and environmental factors of a site results in creative and appropriate design solutions.
Selection from our Portfolio New Wembley Masterplan UK Masterplan for regeneration scheme including boulevards infrastructure, public realm and residential.
City Quays, London Carefully balanced design for the new and historic dockside.
Arena Square, New Wembley Design for an elegant city square intended as a new cultural destination with a central interactive fountain.
The Oracle, Reading Design of a waterside promenade as part of a regeneration scheme.
Langham Hotel, London Contemporary landscape design for the external spaces at the Langham Hotel.
Richmond Lock, Surrey Residential development including 103 housing plots with private gardens.
Dollar Bay, London Public spacefor a 48 storey glazed landmark tower based on West India Dock.
The Woods, Bishops Avenue, London Landscape design for 14 luxury residential apartments within a 2 acre woodland setting.
Lots Road Power Station, London Sustainably designed, high quality, public and private realm adjacent to the River Thames.
Greenwich Millennium Village - Phase 1B Landscape design of private gardens and communal open space for innovative residential regeneration project.
Campden Hill, London Prestigious residential project overlooking Holland Park.
Greenwich Millennium Village Square Landscape design for communal Public Square
Marco Polo, London Landscape masterplan for a high density residential development.
Greenwich Millennium Village - Phase 3,4 & 5 High quality streetscape and public realm landscape design for a major residential regeneration project.
Founders Place, Lambeth Design of a number of courtyard gardens and public open spaces as part of a wider regeneration scheme.
Kirkstall Forge, Leeds Development of a landscape masterplan for a 23 hectare residential led masterplan.
Imperial College Masterplan Management and maintenance design for soft and hard landscape.
Chatham Waterfront Landscape masterplan to regenerate an existing open space on Chatham Waterfront.
King’s Road, Chelsea Sensitive design of highly decorative courtyards and urban park.
Great Covert Park, Hampshire Landscape Masterplan for a residential-led development within a woodland setting.
DRAFT VIEW OF SCHEME
NEW WEMBLEY MASTERPLAN LONDON
Client: Quintain Estates & Development Plc
New Wembley is the project driving the regeneration of 55 acres of land surrounding the Wembley Stadium in north west London. Working alongsideRichardRogersPartnershipforQuintainEstates&Development, RSA has formed the landscape strategy for the public realm and all external space across this site. The strategy aims to create a new cultural destination for north west London, a vibrant new quarter and a setting for the National Stadium. The landscape strategy, establishes a hierarchy of external spaces: the streets,squares,gardens,parks,courtyardsandfootpathsthatmakeupthe public and private realm. The strategy seeks to achieve a choreographed experience. Arrival at a key area such as the Stadium or Arena should be a memorable culmination of a sequence of experiences. Routes across the site read as a clear axis, linkingtheprinciplepublicspaces,formingapedestriandominatedroute through the site.
THE COMPLETED SCHEME
ARENA SQUARE WEMBLEY, LONDON
Client: Quintain Estates & Development Plc
At the heart of the vision for Wembley lies the new elegant city square for Wembley Arena and London. This is intended as a new cultural destination, a ‘South Bank in NorthLondon.’Thesquareprovidesadramaticsettingforseasonal and cultural events, Arena warm-up shows and celebrations, as well as a permanent ‘people watching’ space in continuous use by people living, working and enjoying themselves. RSA worked with architects Richard Rogers, engineers Buro Happold and special features designers Pyott Nicron to create a design focused around a central interactive fountain. High quality materials are used throughout and combined with elegant detailing. Special effects are focused on the theatrical lighting of the Arena facade coordinated with the fountain, lighting columns and audio effects. Banks of steps define the square and form an informal amphitheatre. A temporary stage can be placed over the central fountain for special events. Central to the vision for Arena Square is thatofflexibility,therebyallowingforarangeofdifferentfunctionswithinthe square as the surrounding infrastructure develops.
CHARACTER SKETCHES
LANGHAM HOTEL LONDON
Client: Langham Hotel The Langham Hotel was opened in 1865 as Europe’s first Grand Hotel and has hosted royalty, foreign dignitaries and celebrities in luxury for over 140 years. ThisVictorian landmark has been restored and expanded to incorporate 21st Century luxury and contemporary spaces over the years. RSA designed a green layer to the stone facade by importing mature trees from Italy and adding extensive planting. Recently RSA were appointed to create an English Rose wedding courtyard garden for the hotel. The brief was to provide a flexible space that could accommodate a central wedding marquee or alternatively be laid out as a cigar terrace. The bland open courtyard has been replaced with a series of intimate spaces which have been created by moveable planters and benches.Tall decorative metal obelisks and standard bay trees create an evergreen structure with year round interest. Roses and seasonal underplanting offer considerable colour, fragrance and charm.
DOLLAR BAY LONDON, UK
INTERGRATED PLAY SPACE
WATERFRONT PROMENADE
Ian Simpson Architects
Client: Londonewcastle
Dollar Bay is situated at the east of the West India and Millwall Dock in London. The architectural master plan for Dollar Bay creates a slender urban marker in the form of a tower which is composed of two angled forms. In response to the architectural masterplan and the context of the development, the landscape proposals aims to enhance the public realm and provide improved views across the site and beyond. Proposals are for creating a visually stimulating, practical and usable space for residents and children including aspects of integrated play, seating, bike stands and outdoor cafe space. A private garden rich in planting is proposed to provide space for passive recreation and promote biodiversity. The waterfront promenade housing the cafe at the tower base and a planted edge provides an opportunity to enrich and animate the quayside.
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CAMPDEN HILL HOLLAND PARK, LONDON
Client: Nativeland & Grosvenor Estates
RSA were commissioned in March 2010 by Nativeland and Grosvenor Estates together with John McAslan Partnership as consultants to provide landscape and urban realm services for the prestigious Campden Hill residential project overlooking Holland Park. The overall concept for the landscape is to create a design that is harmonious with its surroundings. The design seeks to achieve an elegant, calm, balanced and a well proportioned composition, which responds well to the site context. The strategy is to create a formal landscape at the centre of the site which responds to the requirements of residents for visual and functional amenity. Towards the edges the site becomes a more informal woodland by extending the qualities from Holland Park. The courtyard at the heart of the site is ordered, formal and symmetrical with an elegant reflecting pool. All ground floor apartments face out onto private courtyard gardens. The residents are provided with useful ,attractive and robust spaces.
LOTS ROAD POWER STATION CHELSEA, LONDON Client: Hutchison Whampoa
RSA designed the original scheme for Circadian Ltd, a Taylor Woodrow and Hutchison Whampoa joint venture, between 1999 and 2002. Hutchison Whampoa have commissioned RSA again to update the design and take the project through to completion. The Lots Road site is to form a mixed-use nucleus for this revitalised urban quarter of Chelsea. Adjacent to the River Thames, the site will feature a sustainably designed, high-quality, public and private realm, with 25 and 37 storey residential towers designed by the Terry Farrell Partnership. The landscape proposals comprise four main characters at ground level: creekside park; urban open space; private terraces and garden spaces. The circulation consists of pedestrian priority paths and shared surface thoroughfares through the landscape. TheplanningprocessinvolvedsignificantcollaborationwiththeEnvironmental Agencytoachieveasustainabledesignforthecreek’sbanksthatmitigatesthe tidal effects and allows wildlife habitat creation and potential for recreation in different tidal scenarios.
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MARCO POLO BATTERSEA, LONDON Client: Anastasia Ltd The client brief was to produce a concept landscape masterplan for Marco Polo House located opposite Battersea Park on Queenstown Road in Battersea London. It is located within the Greater London Authority’s Vauxhall Nine Elms Battersea Opportunity Area (VNEBOA). The site has a total land area of 1.27 hectares. The area is characterised to have high density residential development with opportunities for improvement to the environment and improved site access. As part of the VNEOBOA, RSA needed to ensure the landscape masterplan considered the design of both private and public realm ensuring improvement to the environment and accessibility of the site. The concept design was to include roof terraces and gardens, sunken garden space, tree top entrance walkway, private landscape gardens between buildings, public realm street landscape strategy, traffic and pedestrian circulation and hard landscape and planting. The design was to be presented and approved by the client to a level sufficient to be used in discussions with Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and consultation with the Local Planning Authority (Wandsworth Council).
PLAY AREA UPPER MARSH STREET
COURTYARD GARDENS
PUBLIC SQUARE ROYAL STREET
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VIEW FROM LAMBETH PALACE ROAD
FOUNDER’S PLACE LAMBETH, LONDON Client: Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Trust RSA have been working with Terry Farrell for an exciting new vision for Founder’s Place which is being proposed by the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Charity, together with the Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and the Evelina Family Trust in London, Lambeth. The proposals for the scheme include housing for key worker staffatGuy’s and St. Thomas’Hospital, which is a new health facility. Ronald McDonald House privides free accommodation for the families of sick children being treated in the new Evelina Children’s Hospital and accommodation for the Charity’s long-term tenants. These buildings form part of a wider regeneration scheme for this area of Lambeth.
VIEW OF PUBLIC SQUARE
RSA have developed a design that provides larger areas of secure, well-lit public space by extending pavements and creating shared roadsurfaces, wherepedestrianswillhavepriority. Greeningofthe streets and courtyard spaces will be a major priority, using native tree and shrub species wherever possible. Courtyard gardens will be provided for Ronald McDonald House and all the private flats bordering Archbishop’s Park.
IMPERIAL COLLEGE KENSINGTON, LONDON Client: Imperial College RSA was appointed by the Imperial College Estates Division as Landscape Architects in August 2004 to undertake a feasibility study with outline sketch design proposals for the hard and soft landscape at the South KensingtoncampusofImperialCollege.Thestudyincludesthedevelopment of a management and maintenance strategy. South Kensington is the university’s principle campus and enjoys one of best environments in London, being an area of high architectural quality, that is well served by public transport. RSA have defined objectives that will: • Provide an overall approach to the management and maintenance of both hard and soft landscape for the South Kensington campus. • Assist in achieving an environment that is memorable, legible, safe and is an appropriate setting for a world class university.
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• Achieve an environment that is of benefit to staff, students, visitors and the public.
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KING’S CHELSEA CHELSEA, LONDON Client: King’s Road Ltd
The development of the former King’s College site bounded by the Fulham and King’s roads has given RSA the opportunity to design a series of highly decorative courtyard spaces and a substantial urban park with private and public spaces. The size and location of the site and the presence of listed buildings make the development an important and sensitive issue for the residents of the surrounding area and the local planning authority (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea). Careful application of design skills in the treatment of the listed buildings was vital to deal with all the local issues. Thedevelopmentrequiredincorporationofpublicaccessandthelandscape proposals were developed to comply with this requirement while also maximising the opportunities for the enjoyment of the open spaces for the residents , and also preserving the setting of the historic buildings. The impact of access and vehicle circulation was minimised by creating extended areas of public realm and pedestrian areas.
CITY QUAYS ST. KATHERINE’S DOCK, LONDON
Client: Taylor Woodrow Properties
Situated adjacent to the Tower of London and the River Thames, the stringent requirements of the client, Planning Authority and English Heritage were carefully balanced to achieve an open, elegant setting for the new architecture and historic dockside.
PRIVATE GARDENS
The overall objective was to create an area with ornamental value, in keepingwithexistingenvironmentalfeatures.Thedesigncreatesafeeling of privacy for the residents whilst still allowing views across the boatsand the dock. Seating is provided throughout the dockside to encourage the public to pause and enjoy the landscape. In the Private Terrace Gardens, residents are given space for contemplation and peaceful enjoyment of the gardens and views.
DOCKSIDE WALKWAY
LANDSCAPED RIVERSIDE SPLICE
THE ORACLE READING
Client: Hammerson UK Properties Ltd. The award winning scheme by BURA and Water Ways Trust acheived first place for area based regeneration. The design was developed in association with Haskoll architects and designers. The Oracle has been awarded best international shopping centre in 2001. The Oracle provides a total and comprehensive redevelopment of the River Kennet creating a vibrant riverside environment in the heart of Reading’s town centre. The masterplan links shopping to a leisure destination around a waterside promenade. The large civic spaces alongside the river provide suitable scale and settingforthebuildings whilstallowingleisureactivities tothrivewithout dominating the space.
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RICHMOND LOCK TWICKENHAM, ENGLAND
Client: Octagon Developments Ltd.
A residential development of 13 acres of land on the listed Brunel University campus site, adjacent to the RiverThames. The listed buildings including the Main House, Orangery and Chapel were retained and premium quality residences set in a parkland setting were introduced following the demolition of modern college buildings. The proposal included103housingplotswithprivatelandscapedgardens, new avenue and street planting and a recreational public open space area with a lake and boardwalk.
THE WOODS BISHOPS AVENUE, LONDON
Client: Willow Acre
The landscape strategy sets out to create a high quality podium deck landscaped garden for these 14 luxury residential apartments within a 2 acre woodland setting. The podium deck uses the latest greenroof technology to achieve a contemporary space with a traditional twist. The garden comprises of focal waterwalls, feature drystone walls,naturalstonepathways,clippedhedges,finelawnsand a palette of plants specially selected to provide seasonal interest. The woodland area surrounding the development has been improved and enhanced to create a green envelope for the buildings.
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GREENWICH MILLENNIUM VILLAGE PHASE 1B LONDON
Client: GMVL
Greenwich Millennium Village is one of five projects chosen for a gold Building for Life Standard award that recognises design excellence and is sponsored by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). Masterplan architects Erskine Tovatt, together with EPR Architects, designed the three vaulted buildings of Maurer Court, which encloses a secluded garden, designed by Randle Siddeley Associates. Responding to the housing’s distinctive architecture, the innovative landscape design provides private gardens and a communal focus for the residents. The main public space, while being a means of access and a place to sit and play for the occupants, is also a rich, verdant space to benefit the flats above. The area is shaped by an undulating lawn and an arc of self bound gravel and wood deck, punctuated with decorative stone.
COMMUNAL FOCUS FOR RESIDENTS
GREENWICH MILLENNIUM VILLAGE LONDON LONDON Client: GMVL
RSA have been appointed by GMVL to develop the design for the Village Square. The key objective for the square is to ensure the design of the square becomes the heart and focus for the village by creating a vibrant public space. The square has a southerly aspect which is ideal to create a space that can function throughout the year and provide opportunities for events, as well as a creating breakout areas for simple ‘people watching’ . The concept has taken the most successful elements of the design created by Desvigne and Dalnoky within the Central and Southern Park, the axial hard landscape, structured native planting, grid woodland planting and a hierarchy of street furniture.
GREENWICH MILLENNIUM VILLAGE PHASE 3,4 & 5 LONDON
Client: GMVL
RSA have been appointed to provide landscape services for the final phases of the GMV. High quality landscape and open space is a key feature of GMV. The streetscape and public realm creates a strong unifying framework for the development and the proposals build on the principles set out within the Tovatt Erskine Masterplan. These are: • Reinforcing logic of public realm and open space. • Connecting existing phases with the proposed scheme. • Creating a route with invitations for activities. • Ensuring permanent, flexible and transient activities. • Providing an identity and character for the place.
CONCEPT & CHARACTER SKETCHES
The elements of the landscape within phases 3/4/5 will encompass a pedestrian spine route including seating, landscaping and public art which connects to the previous phases, public piazza with breakout areas for retail use, play areas providing a range of facilities for children within safe access from residential units, and the first phase of linear park creating a strong and distinctive urban edge to the village.
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Landscape Masterplan
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KIRKSTALL FORGE LEEDS
Client: Commercial Estates Group
RSA were appointed to develop the landscape masterplan and Phase 1 works for the 23 hectare residential-led masterplan for the Commercial Estates Group (CEG). The abandoned industrial site occupies a unique landscape setting within a steeply wooded valley with the River Aire, the Leeds Canal and mainline railway passing through the site. The masterplan features over 1300 new homes including townhouses andapartments,anewrailwaystation,offices,retailandculturalelements to create a new urban riverfront quarter all within 10 minutes by bus or train to Leeds city centre. RSA were involved in the judging of the Phase 1 architect’s competition and will be developing the landscape and public realm strategy to deliver the first tranche of development to Forge Square thus giving it a new focus to create a sense of place.
CHATHAM WATERFRONT UK
BARRIER GARDENS
MEDWAY WALK
Client: Medway Rennaisance
RSA were invited to develop a landscape masterplan for an existing under used open space on Chatham Waterfront. Key factors for the masterplan were the redevelopment of the waterfront to establish a mixed use development to include residential, commercial, retail with the incorporation of a new a feature building, a Theatre. The area also had to incorporate a new transport hub which would coordinate buses as well as reorganising cycle and pedestrian connections from the riverfront to the town centre. The concept developed by RSA established five integrated areas for the masterplan which would establish a series and variety of destination within the Park which would regenerate the character and spaces of the park as well as maintain the connection with the water. Also incorporated into the design were the key landscape features of the existing site. These landscape features incorporated historically significant landscape elements to the site which included a scheduled ancient monument.
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GREAT COVERT PARK HAMPSHIRE
Client: 8CU
The residential-lead mixed use development of Great Covert Park provides some unique opportunities. The design will provide 1,050 new homes developed around the concept of a Hampshire village. The landscape design follows the village concept by developing the built form of the site around a focal open space of a village green, which links directly with a village square bound by offices, shops and a pub. The design also includes extensive facilities for use by residents and the existing local community including a health centre, primary school and nursery, horse riding school, play areas, sports pitches, allotments, public gardens, a leisure centre and an indoor swimming pool. All of these new facilities will be connected by a network of cycle ways and footpaths, which will be integrated within the whole development area. The sustainability of any new development is of paramount importance and Great Covert Park provides the opportunity to take a new and fresh look at how best a new housing development can be planned and executed. The development is established in a woodland setting, the concept of developing a new village also takes into consideration the latest Government advice with respect to an Urban Extension. EXISTING WOODLAND
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