Carnegie Pavilion at Leeds by Alsop Sparch

Carnegie Pavilion is a semi-freestanding ‘dual-use’ pavilion on five floors, comprising a gross internal area (GIA) of 4,000m², and broken down into three sub-zones: exclusive Leeds Met spaces + exclusive YCCC spaces + ‘dual-use’ spaces (comprising 70% of total area). Leeds Met areas are primarily for teaching kitchen, hospitality and staff accommodation, and YCCC areas for player’s facilities and staff accommodation. ‘dual-use’ lecture rooms are used primarily by Leeds Met, during the academic year, and by YCCC, during the cricket season, as corporate hospitality suites. Similarly, ‘dual-use’ meeting rooms are used primarily by Leeds Met, during the academic year, and by YCCC, during the cricket season, as TV and radio commentary boxes.

Carnegie Pavilion Play Time

• Architects: Alsop Sparch
• Project: Carnegie Pavilion
• Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
• Client: Leeds Metropolitan University
• Stakeholder: Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC),
• Regional Development Agency: Yorkshire Forward
• Project Manager: Gardiner & Theobald
• Architect: Michael Crook
• Structures; Building Services; Acoustics; Fire; Traffic; Sunlight: Arup
• Planning: DTZ
• Cost Management: Ryder Levitt Bucknall
• Landscape Architect: Whitelaw & Turkington
• BREEAM: White Young Green
• CDM: Bowman Riley
• Party Wall Surveyor: DK Brown
• Ecology: Brooks Ecological:
• Contractor: BAM
• MEP: NG Bailey
• Rainscreen Cladding: Locker Group Ltd
• Curtain-Walling: Henshaw
• Concrete Frame: Bell & Webster
• Steel Frame: Elland Steel
• Lifts: Thyssen
• Auditorium Fit-Out: CPS
• TIMELINE:
• June 2007: Leeds Metropolitan University/ Yorkshire County Cricket Club issue revised brief
• 18 April 2008: Detailed Planning Application submitted to Leeds City Council
• September 2008: Leeds City Council award Detailed Planning Consent
• 22 September 2008: BAM appointed Preferred Bidder
• 23 February 2009: BAM submit Best and Final Offer for client approval
• 09 March 2009: BAM commence work on site
• 21 June 2010: BAM achieve Practical Completion
• 21 July – 25 July 2010: Pakistan v Australia 2nd Test Match at Headingley

Carnegie Pavilion Facade from inside

The key spatial requirements included:

• YCCC offices to be visible from and accessible from Kirkstall Lane
• Direct access to existing covered concourse / lower tier seating
• Leeds Met flagship teaching kitchen and hospitality visible from main entrance
• YCCC player’s facilities with direct access and visibility of pitch/ wicket
• New upper tier seating to replace seating demolished along with Winter Shed Stand
• YCCC Hawke Club (corporate hospitality suite) with prime view of the wicket
• Lecture rooms used as corporate hospitality suites outside term time
• Stepped auditorium used as media centre for the written press during cricket matches
• Social learning apaces adopted as media break-out space outside term time
• Meeting rooms adopted as TV / radio commentary boxes outside term time
• Leeds Met flexible office space for 100 staff

Carnegie Pavilion Exterior view 4

In addition to the highly constrained site itself in the historical heart of Headingley the key design constraints included:

• Site bounded by western and eastern stands and winter shed stand lower tier seating
• Entrance from Kirkstall Lane lies between level of pitch and top of lower tier seating
• Demolished winter shed seating to be replaced on likefor- like basis
• Covered concourse below lower tier seating and groundsman’s store to be retained
• Axis of test match wicket intersects plot at eastern end closest to residential properties
• Corporate hospitality / media centre requiring uninterrupted views of Test Match wicket
• Home and away team balconies requiring uninterrupted views of the Test Match wicket
• External TV gantry on the axis of the Test Match wicket
• Radio commentary boxes all on one floor on the axis of the Test Match wicket
• TV Invision studios / commentary boxes all on one floor on axis of Test Match wicket

Carnegie Pavilion Exterior view 1

History
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has a strong relationship with Leeds Metropolitan University which demonstrates a positive desire to work together for the long-term benefit of the game of cricket. YCCC still owns the land and has granted the rights to build on that land to Leeds Metropolitan University on a long lease – with Yorkshire County Cricket Club then leasing back the space inside the building for use as a cricket pavilion and Media Centre.

Carnegie Pavilion exterior view 2

Alsop Sparch worked closely together with a team of specialist consultants including: Arup (Structures; Acoustics; Fire; Traffic; Building Services), DTZ (Planning), RLB (Cost Management), White Young Green (BREEAM) and Gardiner & Theobald (Project Manager). The design evolved through numerous iterations in consultation with Leeds Metropolitan University and Yorkshire County Cricket – as well as many other takeholders including Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Cricket Writers Association, Sky, BBC, as well as local community representatives and planning officers.

Carnegie Pavilion exterior view 3

The Duke of Gloucester formally opened the Carnegie Pavilion on 21 July 2010.

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Background

The shared vision of Leeds Metropolitan University in partnership with Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) to replace the existing, substandard Wintershed and Media Centre with the new dual-use ‘Carnegie Pavilion’ – providing Leeds Met with a unique new teaching faculty and YCCC with new world-class Media & Hospitality facilities – has been realized in the form of a stunning new landmark in the heart of Headingley.

Screen from inside

Although there is a degree of operational overlap, during the academic year, the Carnegie Pavilion will operate mainly as a university teaching faculty and, during the summer holidays, mainly as a cricket pavilion and media centre. At the heart of the project is the concept of a more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable approach to education and sport: one building replacing the need for two, that will be occupied all year round, and be more engaged with the local community.

View from inside

The Headingley Carnegie Pavilion will accommodate Leeds Metropolitan University’s School of Tourism, Hospitality and Events (THE), where students will benefit from direct exposure to real life sporting events and hospitality. The development will incorporate a full-scale teaching kitchen as well as lecture theatres and faculty offices. Students of Digital Journalism will also be based in the building, and will work with the hi-tech facilities of the new Media Centre. It will be the location for a unique blend of education in a professional setting and a professional sporting base for Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

View from inside 2

Together the project will create a high quality, educationally exciting and high profile professional face for sport in Leeds. The Carnegie Pavilion is part of Leeds Metropolitan University wider strategy to become a world-class regional university, with world-wide horizons: to be a university of festivals and partnerships creating a culture of celebration which values pioneering relationships with other world-class regional organizations across education, the arts, sport, business and wider community life. LeedsMetropolitan University promotes rubbing shoulders with, and learning from, champions – which is embodied in the partnership with The Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

View from the bleechers

View - looking up from inside

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Structure

Site Plan

Tags: Leeds, UK, West Yorkshire

Categories: Pavilion, Stadium

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