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Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2020

Disclaimer: The Pineapples 2020 submissions closed in April 2020 and presentations took place in November 2020. The process and details provided for each project may have changed since.

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2020

Leeds Dock

In 2012 Allied London bought what was then known as Clarence Dock. We had a vision to take the existing area and re- brand, re-invest and create Leeds’ first tech, media and creative industries hub: Leeds Dock. Allied London’s placemaking strategy has established Leeds Dock as a key destination in the city for enterprise, community and culture, with a portfolio of contemporary creative workspace, complemented by independent food and drink operators.

Winner for Completed Place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Westgate Rooftop Gardens

The original Westgate centre was built in the 1970s and Landsec consulted heavily with the local community when it bought the site in 2010. The ambition behind the new development, which opened in 2017, was to transform the reputation of Oxford as a modern retail destination.

Shortlisted for Completed Place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Spinningfields

This dynamic city centre quarter has become the city’s leading business destination, a legal quarter, a place to live and work as well as a place to eat, drink, shop and be entertained. Over the last decade, Spinningfields has evolved to become the home for over 165 commercial organisations.

Shortlisted for Completed Place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

KAMPUS

KAMPUS is a new £250 million neighbourhood by HBD and Capital & Centric in Manchester city centre. Once home to Manchester Metropolitan University, the site is being transformed into over 500 apartments to rent across buildings, including Victorian canal- side warehouses and the brutalist 1960s tower. Rich with history and character KAMPUS will rediscover a forgotten part of Manchester.

Winner for Place in progress - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Aberfeldy

Aberfeldy Village, soon to be rebranded Oxbow, is a landmark redevelopment in East London, ten years into a 20-year timeline. In 2012 housing and community association Poplar HARCA and EcoWorld London, at the time known as Willmott Dixon Regen, formed the Aberfeldy New Village LLP joint-venture partnership (The Partnership) and gained planning permission for a widescale redevelopment.

Shortlisted for Place in progress - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Place in Progress

Climate Innovation District

The Climate Innovation District represents a pioneering new approach to delivering sustainable places in the UK. The district spans both banks of the River Aire in the east of Leeds city centre and will comprise family houses, apartments, office spaces, retail spaces, a primary school, a small care home, and a community café. The district is designed to reduce carbon emissions at every stage.

Shortlisted for Place in progress - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Place in Progress

Greenford Quay

Greenford Quay by Greystar is London’s largest purpose-built rental community and will ultimately deliver 2,118 new homes set within a new public realm overlooking the Grand Union Canal in Ealing. The first phase of the development, Tillermans, opened its doors to residents at the end of 2019, offering a range of amenities and facilities not normally associated with rental housing in the UK.

Shortlisted for Place in progress - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Place in Progress

King’s Cross

King’s Cross is home to 67 acres of architecture, offices, destination restaurants and retail, homes and education. The landmark development is not due to complete until 2023; however is already seen as a lively place to visit, day and night. The area’s industrial past has inspired the 50 new and 20 repurposed buildings. The public spaces between them are a mix of parks, streets, squares, and gardens, with Granary Square at its heart.

Winner for Place in progress - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Place in Progress

Brooklands Square

Showing placemaking at its best, Brooklands is a mixed- tenure scheme in Milton Keynes that will provide a total of 2,500 homes all supported by a raft of facilities and amenities, including schools, shops and leisure facilities as well as green spaces that emphasise biodiversity and environmental sustainability.

Shortlisted for Place in progress - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Place in Progress

Future Energy Campus

By the mid 2020’s there will be a massive global demand for electricity boosted globally by five billion smartphones, the switch to electric vehicles, online retailing, AI, automation and climate change. Flexible low carbon electricity to replace retiring coal/natural gas capacity and complement variable solar and wind generation demands a rethink about new nuclear.

Shortlisted for International Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

International Future Place

Oktyabrsky Island

Seventy-five per cent of Russians now live in cities which grew exponentially during Soviet-era industrialisation and are now struggling with built environments unable to respond to climate breakdown and how people live today. Everywhere, major roads dominate and sever communities.

Winner for International Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

International Future Place

Mahindra World City Jaipur - Social Infrastructure Zone

Mahindra World City Jaipur (MWCJ) will be Asia’s first and the world’s largest project to receive C40 Climate Positive Development Stage 2 Certification. The new development will deliver 25,000 new sustainable homes in walkable neighbourhoods, tailored to the needs of the rapidly growing city of Jaipur.

Shortlisted for International Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

International Future Place

Beam Park

Beam Park is the culmination of a significant collaboration between public and private sector bodies to accelerate housing delivery for two London boroughs on a large, complex and constrained brownfield site.

Shortlisted for Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Future Place

Soapworks

Soapworks, which consists of 165,000 sq ft of existing buildings within a 2.25- acre site, is located on the edge of Bristol city centre, close to Bristol Temple Meads station and between the city’s business district at Temple Quay and cultural quarter at Old Market.

Shortlisted for Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Future Place

Mayfield, Manchester Mayfield Partnership (U+I, Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester and LCR), Studio Egret West, Bennetts Associates, Morris + Co

Located adjacent to Manchester’s Piccadilly train station, at 24- acres and with a central, well-connected location, Mayfield is a significant urban regeneration opportunity. Yet, previous attempts to kickstart regeneration have stumbled. In 2016, the Mayfield Partnership (regeneration specialist U+I, Manchester City Council, Transport for Greater Manchester and LCR), was formed with a new brief to ensure the long dormant site reaches its potential.

Winner for Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Future Place

Brent Cross Town

It has been over a decade since the first plan for the redevelopment of Brent Cross Cricklewood – a 373- acre area on both sides of the North Circular – was approved by Barnet Council and the Mayor of London. In 2015 Argent Related won an OEJU bid process to form a joint venture with the Council to deliver the southern portion of the site, known as Brent Cross Town.

Shortlisted for Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Future Place

Union Terrace Gardens

Union Terrace Gardens is a landmark Aberdeen City Council project. Ringed by some of the City’s finest architecture, and dating back to 1878, UTG is Aberdeen’s most important green space. At times, the Gardens have been a magnet for anti- social behaviour. Dwindling footfall has affected the vibrancy of the surrounding area, which is home to shops and businesses.

Shortlisted for Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Future Place

Winstanley & York Road Regeneration

The brief for Winstanley & York Road Regeneration is to develop an attractive new neighbourhood. Following a successful resident ballot, Wandsworth Council selected Taylor Wimpey as their JV partner. HTA has developed a masterplan for over 2,500 homes, centred around a new park, with a leisure centre, library, nursery, a medical centre, retail and commercial space.

Shortlisted for Future place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Future Place

Poplar Works

Poplar Works is a fashion workspace and training centre, developed by Poplar HARCA, London College of Fashion, UAL (LCF) and The Trampery. We used a strip of under-used garages straddling the A12 to re-establish fashion at the heart of Poplar’s local economy, creating links to LCF’s forthcoming East Bank campus, and facilitating learning and networking opportunities for our community.

Winner for Contribution to place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Mayfield

Based on its philosophy of ‘worthwhile’ rather than meanwhile use, U+I has turned Mayfield into the city’s most spectacular new cultural venue. The site’s vast depot has been refurbished into a 10,000-capacity performance, community and studio space (Depot Mayfield), its railway arches became the home of a weekly independent street food market, and vacant warehouse space has been used to create the UK’s largest indoor mountain bike track (Dirt Factory).

Shortlisted for Contribution to place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Support for Jack Tizard School

Jack Tizard School, based on South Africa Road, approximately 1000 feet from White City Place, is an outstanding school for pupils aged 3- 19 years with a range of severe learning difficulties.

Shortlisted for Contribution to place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

North Cator Park

Drawing upon the history of a lost river that crossed the site, the Lower Kid Brooke, a new chalk stream forms the backbone of the landscape approach, connecting the existing water bodies with a dry riverbed, acting as a path and inviting the public to discover and interact with the natural environment.

Winner for Contribution to place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

Royal Wharf Pier

Royal Wharf Pier is a new riverboat terminal in Ballymore and Oxley’s Royal Wharf development in London’s Royal Docks, and at 130m long, incorporates London’s first floating public space on the Thames.

Shortlisted for Contribution to place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

The Drumsheds

The London Borough of Enfield is currently delivering one of the largest regeneration schemes in the UK – Meridian Water – in the Upper Edmonton area of North East London.

Shortlisted for Contribution to place - The Pineapples Awards 2020

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