NoChintz pushed fitness concepts to the next level with the interiors for WIT’s flagship space in central London. The new home for this Strength and Conditioning fitness brand opened in January 2018 and is located on the doorstep of the iconic St Paul’s Cathedral, London.
The 638sqm ex Superdry store is split across two floors. Now home to an inspirational training space on the lower ground, which is brought into the retail space on the ground floor; where retail display withstanding and encouraging workout use.
Bloomberg’s new European headquarters is respectful of its location in the heart of the City of London, close to the Bank of England, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the church of St. Stephen’s Walbrook. In its form, massing and materials, the new building is uniquely of their place and time – a natural extension of the City that will endure and improve the surrounding public realm. It is a true exemplar of sustainable development, with a BREEAM Outstanding rating – the highest design-stage score ever achieved by any major office development. Occupying a full city block, the 3.2-acre site comprises two buildings united by bridges that span over a pedestrian arcade that reinstates Watling Street, an ancient Roman road that ran through the site. Bloomberg Arcade is now a key route for people moving around the City, with restaurants and cafes at ground level, set back behind an undulating façade under a covered colonnade. Three public plazas, located at each end of the arcade and in front of the building’s entrance, provide new civic spaces in the heart of the Square Mile.
Foster + Partners Team list: Norman Foster, Michael Jones, Kate Murphy, Simona Bencini, Owe Schoof, Stefan Behling, Grant Brooker, David Nelson Spencer de Grey, Stefan Bench, Robin Blanchard, Saxbourne Cheung, Federico De Paoli, Jon Fielding, Irene Gallou, Rie Hasloev Dancey, Mike Holland, Lucas Mazarrasa Chavarri, Bruno Moser, Vladimir Shukhov, Christopher Trott, Rene Wolter, Tsutsui Yusuke, Aike Behrens, Ruben Bergambagt, Giovanni Betti, Peter Brittain, Stefano Capra, Luca Carraro, Atisthan Charoenkool, Christopher Christophi, Emilio Cimma, Victor Corell Gasco, Salmaan Craig, Begona De Menaca, Rodriguez Avial, Jan Dierckx, Petru Dragoiu, Julia Cordero Eisman, Gavin Fung, Giuseppe Giacoppo, Charles Gillespie, Philip Goodman, Florian Goscheff, Pietro Gottardi, Neil Gray, Luigi Grosso, Jens Hoffman, Elisa Honkanen, Brandon Hubbard, Agnete Jukneviciute, Arjun Kaicker, Thomas Kalkhoven, Tamika Kawabuchi, Alastair King, Jedrzej Kolesinski, Javier Lahuerta, Ignacio Larracoechea San Sebastian, Natalie Latacz, Christopher Lee, Jean-Francois Lemay, Isabel Lopez Taberna, Milena Marucci, David McGowan, Joao Mendes, Rebekka Mueller, Wolfgang Muller, James Murray, Premveer Nagpal, Liz Ng, Laura Nieto Mendez, Nicholas Oldroyd, Ollie Battle, Brett Ormrod, Robert Henry Parr-Young, Ino Protopapa, Jonathan Rabagliati, Giorgio Ramponi, Maria Sagrario M Torres, Francesco Sasia, Behdad Shahi, Laura Smith, Ryan Sorrell, Dimitrios Sotiropoulos, Dimitra Tampaki, Harsh Thapar, Dimitrios Themelis, Arthur Van Der Harten, Sarin Varadul, Thomas Wagner, Michael Ward, Vincent Westbrook, James White, Nicholas Wong, Ronald Wong, James Wroot
Set within Wembley Park, London, Flanagan Lawrence’s Alto development is a large-scale residential development for Quintain. Inspired by the adjacent stadium’s leading-edge design, the development forms a key part of one of the UK’s most ambitious regeneration projects. Quintain is transforming what was a derelict brownfield site into a dynamic mixed-use neighbourhood located just 12 minutes from Central London.
Recently named Development of the Year at the 2018 RESI Awards, the Alto development has been designed as part of Quintain’s larger masterplan for the 85 acre site, which also delivers 42 acres of public realm, creating an urban oasis with pockets of green and open space. Seamlessly integrated public realm is a key feature of the scheme, which includes Elvin Gardens, and adjacent pocket parks.
FORMstudio’s latest completed project is a response to the Mayor of London’s Policy to optimise the re-use of small sites across London.
Malcolm Crayton, Director at FORMstudio comments: “The GLA’s draft New London Plan calls for an increased focus on small sites, which need to play a much greater role in housing delivery. Boroughs are encouraged to pro-actively support well-designed new homes on small sites through both planning decisions and plan-making in order to significantly increase the way in which challenging small sites can meet London’s housing needs – Benbow Yard is a perfect response to this policy.”
Restaurant design specialist, Faber, has completed the design for Thai Express’s new flagship store in Birmingham city centre.
Headquartered in Canada, Thai Express opened its first store 10 years ago, and now has more than 200 locations worldwide.
Faber was enlisted to adapt the global quick-service brand’s concept for the UK market. The design created for the Birmingham store will be rolled out across multiple locations nationwide, with another store opening in Derby city centre soon.
Make Architects has completed work on its London Wall Place project, a new commercial scheme offering the largest set of public gardens developed in the City of London since the post-war brutalist Barbican estate on behalf of Brookfield Properties and Oxford Properties.
The scheme comprises two office buildings surrounded by extensive public realm including a series of public gardens and reimagined elevated pedestrian walkways to link the neighbouring Barbican with the City of London.
Chapman Taylor’s concept design was selected following a competitive process to select a scheme for the building, occupying a prominent waterside location and adjacent to the award-winning MediaCityUK, the building is the largest single occupancy building in Manchester.
Health and wellbeing was at the core of the design brief and we have designed light open spaces, fully glazed façades and a large central atrium which creates a vibrant working environment within. Circulation stairs are finished to a high standard with natural daylight to encourage staff to get active and stay healthy.
A striking brise soleil wraps the southern faces of the building to create shade and avoid excessive solar gain, while maintaining views out across the water. The ground floor opens out onto landscaped areas linking to the waterfront.
Portsoken Pavilion, a sculptural monocoque structure by Make Architects, has been unveiled as part of the City of London Corporation’s transformation of a former gyratory into a high-quality public space.
The former complex roundabout, with its series of pedestrian subways, has been the subject of intense development for over six years to reroute roads, block off unsafe subways and transform the area into the new Aldgate Square—one of the largest public spaces in London’s Square Mile.
The pavilion, which will be run by local social enterprise Kahaila as a café and multifunctional community space, sits proudly in this new landscape, delivering a public amenity as well as improving the connection between the two distinctive listed heritage buildings that sit either side of the new square: the St Botolph without Aldgate church and Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School.
A new artist studio for a sculptor and a printmaker nestled along a a small industrial mews in New Cross, London. An 18th century wash-house once sat on the site, long since demolished.
Elmwood court is a 5 storey, 22 unit affordable housing scheme for Peabody in Battersea, London. The building is situated on an open, underutilised car park within an existing Peabody Estate. The new residential block continues the land-use pattern of the remaining Victorian terraces along Battersea Park Road, with ground floor retail and housing above.
There are two well defined residential entrances to separate cores flanking the retail space which will enliven the urban realm and fill a void in the streetscape. The street façade comes forward to the line of adjacent buildings, maximising the courtyard space to the rear.
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