No. 1 Soho Place in Westminster combines a 600 seat theatre with contemporary office and retail spaces. Spanning 26,000 sqm, this is the first new theatre in the West End in 50 years. The latest development from Derwent London by AHMM, this £300m mixed-use project is part of large-scale regeneration around the Elizabeth line’s Tottenham Court Road station.
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The £4.6m Hackney Bridge development will serve as a 12-15 year temporary space until the development of Olympic Legacy Plan housing. This is the third project from incubator company Make Shift. Five buildings totalling 2630 sqm bring together workspaces including maker’s shops, co-working spaces, and artists’ studios; as well as a public market hall, events space, and food and drink vendors.
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The Storyteller Library, Cinema, and Housing fully opened in Summer 2023. It consists of a three-screen independent cinema; a cafe; nine apartments; co-working space; a gallery; and a “Changing Places” sanitary facility. The £6.2m development is located on the high street of suburban Sidcup. The project is DRDH’s first public building in London.
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With a construction value of £25.1m, the Appleby Blue Almshouse brings a new retirement community to Bermondsey. Of the 57 new homes, 51 are one bedroom flats and 6 are two-bedroom. The building includes a community centre, lounge, activities room, communal kitchen, spa and beauty room, as well as a garden.
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Completed in 2021, Gloucestershire’s Living Wetland Theatre forms part of a £4.4m funding awarded to WWT Slimbridge by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Alongside a new lagoon, new stream and waterscapes aviary, a 360-seat theatre with shelter from the elements allows visitors to pause and learn about the local wildlife through immersive experiences and activities hosted by the Wetland Centre.
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Completed in November 2023 as a new work campus for 6,000 Santander UK employees, the Unity Place development at 200 Grafton Gate in Milton Keynes includes 44,000sqm of office space across eight stories. Designed to achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ and WELL ‘Gold’ standard, the £150m project also gives public access to an “urban market,” retail outlet, community spaces, health facilities and a terrace cafe.
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A 45-min train ride into the city centre on the DART rail link and 5 minute walk from the beach, Sea Gardens in County Wicklow aims to connect the city and coast for the Bray community. The project will provide 1200 two and three-bedroom homes across the 40ha site with an estimated GDV of over £5m and more than 9ha of public open space in addition to the new 5ha Central park.
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The first phase of the Harkness Memorial Masterplan concerns 128ha of land adjacent to the Gilgai Woodlands Nature Conservation Reserve. The project will address challenges posed by Melbourne’s rapidly growing western suburbs, with new and improved public spaces across the site, in a reimagining of the public cemetery. Melbourne’s largest memorial site, Harkness will be adapted as a multi-use space for memorialisation and community needs.
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UArchitects’ development proposal for coastal locations in Bangladesh comprises 1ha of water based infrastructure – a fixed island to combat the intensification of floods. Micro Colony proposes accommodation for approximately 50 people initially, with trade for up to approximately 10 families. A small school and a medical centre are attached to the ‘community island’ as a ‘colony hub’, with further public resources.
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The Kallang Kolam Ayer masterplan sits across two districts either side of the Kallang River and Pelton Canal. With 1.3km of river frontage, the Makers Land proposes a new arts district for the existing residential community and industrial estates. Arup’s masterplan details a riverfront SoHo as a place to live, work and play, making better use of space by integrating industrial and non-industrial uses.
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A three-phase development being developed across a 3.2ha site, The Britannia Project is expected to be completed in 2026. Included in the £154m plan is a leisure centre to replace the former Britannia Leisure Centre; a 1,140 student school and hundreds of new homes. 290 of the homes will be for outright sale, 30 for shared ownership, and 51 homes for social rent.
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The Stockport Town Centre redevelopment plans for 3,700 new homes as well as 1m sq ft of office and community space. The £1b project will span over 30 hectares of brownfield to create a pedestrianised centre including a 2ha park. The £140m transport interchange and rooftop park opened to the public in March 2024.
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Rochester Riverside is developing a 50ha brownfield site adjacent to the historic centre of Rochester and its new railway station. Plans include a 2.5km river walkway, commercial units, parking, green spaces, a primary school, care home and hotel. The £419m project will bring 1,400 new homes, 25% of which will be made affordable.
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Within the boundaries of Overbury Road and Eade Road, the Harringay Warehouse District comprises a total of 2.35ha. In addition to commercial spaces and new shipping container work units associated with a communal garden, 5000sqm of co-living is proposed alongside a cafe, work/artist studios and public realm improvements at the Seven Sisters site.
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Redevelopment of the Western Campus of the University of Glasgow includes the refurbishment of four buildings; one of which, the Adam Smith business school required £50m of the £430m total project budget. The project encompasses 85,000sqm of student accommodation, learning, teaching, and research space; 26,000sqm of which will be the Keystone Building.
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The Verdean is a £520m development set to create 1,228 new homes, 455 of which will be affordable. Two residential towers, the Oak and the Aster will contain 160 and 170 homes, respectively. Six percent of commercial spaces totaling 780sqm will be allocated to local businesses. The scheme will incorporate additional public realm community connectivity improvements and green spaces.
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Through the closure of a three lane carriageway, the St Paul’s Gyratory Transformation Project will create a 3000sqm public area focused on green infrastructure and sustainable water management. Phase two will remove the rotunda and roundabout outside the former Museum of London site. The £14m project will contribute to a biodiversity corridor which will be part of a new Leisure Walk from Peckham to Epping Forest.
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The £150m project will see the rejuvenation of over 65,000sqm of public realm, split across seven key development areas. Aberdeen City Vision aims to improve the sustainability of Aberdeen by reducing private motorised traffic, congestion and pollution, and making a more enticing environment for active travel, mitigating carbon use during implementation. The design includes play areas, public art, events spaces, and greening the area with trees, planters and rain gardens.
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Three buildings, set in a new public park, will constitute the Devonshire Gardens project. Seventy build-to-rent homes are designed to meet the city’s net-zero carbon ambitions and operate with no reliance on fossil fuels. Additionally, 11,000sqm of workspace will be developed. With the goal of exceeding conventional environmental standards, Devonshire Garden will incorporate 617 cycle spaces, rain gardens and pollinator habitats.
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The £6bn Meridian Water, one of the largest regeneration projects in London, has a scope of over 25 years. It will provide 10,000 homes over its course with the first twenty delivered in September 2023 including family-sized housing, accessible homes, and single bedroom flats. Enfield Council funded the £46m Meridian Water station, completed in 2019, and considered a linchpin for the development.
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At Beresford Square and Powis Street, Woolwich Town Centre proposes a biodiverse, climate resilient market garden adjacent to a public square. The project will seek to construct a permanent market pavilion structure for hosting public activities and events. The project covers 1,325sqm and has secured £21m in funding from Government and Historic England.
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The transformation of the Dock Branch railway line is a key part of the Birkenhead 2040 framework, which plans to provide 21,000 new homes as well as 900,000sqm of modernised commercial space including industrial space and car storage. The £24.6m already secured for the project include provisions for the transfer of seven bridges and one tunnel into council ownership. The railway line will become a 800m linear park to combine nature and communal space.
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Four buildings in the heart of Egham make up the £90m Magna Square development. The project delivered 67 apartments for private sale or rent, 34 affordable flats and student accommodation; with an additional 1,000sqm of new commercial space at ground floor level.
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Since its first phase 12 years ago, the 23.3ha site at MediaCity now hosts 7,000 residents, almost 10,000 students across five educational establishments, 250 small to medium sized businesses as well as a number of large corporates such as Kellogg’s, Ericsson and ITV.
Shortlisted for Place of the Year - The Pineapples Awards 2024
Your New Town Hall in Brixton has two parcels with a combined 1.68 hectare area. The £68 million scheme to refurbish the town hall includes restoration of the historic Ivor House; a new 11,000sqm civic hub; 1,200sqm new Lambeth Council offices and archive space, and 194 new homes of which 40% are affordable.
Shortlisted for Place of the Year - The Pineapples Awards 2024