The proposals comprise two podium structures that define street blocks and, springing from them, a sequence of four residential towers that create a focal point within the marina. Varying in height between 18 and 42 storeys, the towers are arranged in an asymmetrical composition with the elements facing each other across a small harbour. Retail, [...]
The competition site lies to the North of the city in the The King Abdullah Financial District. The stock exchange headquarters is one of a cluster of five tall buildings that share a piazza and are all linked by ‘sky-walks’. The proposals comprise an elegant tower whose asymmetry derives from the geometry of the urban [...]
By the middle of the 19th century Forest Gate was a comfortable London suburb, although the next hundred years saw a steady decline in the quality of its commercial and physical environment. To arrest this trend, the local authority established a town centre Conservation Area in 1999, to protect the numerous Victorian buildings that had [...]
Originally the area marked the transition between the dense residential ‘back to back’ streets of Hulme and the industrial fabric of Knott Mill centered on the River Medlock. Subsequently it was disconnected by the construction of the Mancunian Way ring-road which severed the local streets and became neglected. The development framework secured stakeholder commitment to [...]
Situated to the north-east of the city centre, the site is bisected by the Rochdale Canal and encompasses its intersection with the Ashton Canal. Several of the original basins, wharfs and warehouses survived but were neglected. The proposals re-engage the waterside with the urban core and reinstate the economic value of the historic fabric. They [...]
