THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE WELCOME Welcome to this public consultation on proposals for Three Chamberlain Square at Paradise Birmingham. We value your thoughts and are eager to hear from you. Your comments will help inform the final proposals that will be submitted to Birmingham City Council. If you have any questions or wish to make comments you can either email us directly at: [email protected] or complete the questionnaire on the website within the ‘Have Your Say’ section. 03 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE A GAME- Centenary CHANGING Square SPACE The Hotel Three Chamberlain Square’s pioneering Three architecture will deliver a landmark building Chamberlain which will set new standards for sustainability Square and design in Birmingham and beyond, while Chamberlain paying homage to its historic location. Square This innovative and impressive The design is based on high building will deliver 180,000 sq ft of environmental aspirations to create Town Hall space over 10 storeys as part of the a low energy, low carbon building plans to be brought forward for the that will be both a beautiful and fourth office building at Paradise. inspiring workplace that promotes health, sustainability and wellbeing. It has been designed by renowned architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) following a Victoria design competition held in 2020. Square 04 05 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE PARADISE Paradise is a £700m transformation at the very heart of Birmingham, creating a new destination, and attracting new businesses, jobs and visitors to the city. Outline planning permission They are working as part of for the Paradise development, a public private sector Joint including up to ten new buildings Venture (JV) with Birmingham was granted in 2013. We have City Council, the Local Enterprise now completed Phase One with Partnership and Federated our first commercial buildings Hermes International (a global and new public realm and are investment management bringing forward further detailed company) to bring forward up to 2 planning proposals to complete million sq ft of new development the next, second phase. in the heart of the city. The development managers, The aim is to create a new MEPC, are highly experienced place, and contribute to the in bringing forward large, mixed identity of Birmingham by use commercial developments. designing buildings that are both desirable and inspiring. Chamberlain Square 06 07 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE Birmingham Town Bullring Grand The Cube Paradise is right at the Museum Hall Shopping Central & Art Gallery Centre centre of everything Birmingham has to offer. SNOW HILL STATION NEW STREET STATION TOWN HALL METRO LIBRARY METRO Library of Centenary ICC & Symphony Jewellery Quarter Colmore Row Birmingham Square Hall Mailbox Brindleyplace 08 09 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE PHASE ONE Dishoom Rosa’s Thai The first phase of Paradise has already been successfully delivered, and is helping to create new jobs and to promote new skills within the region. As well as new public realm Two Chamberlain Square is and the historic, and iconic home to DLA Piper, Knights, Chamberlain Square itself, Mazars and more professional the first two commercial services organisations. buildings are now complete. Rosa’s Thai Café has One Chamberlain Square is home opened on the ground floor Chamberlain Square to PwC’s largest regional office overlooking Centenary Way with more than 2,000 staff. and more restaurants and bars, including award winning Indian-Irani eatery Dishoom Vinoteca, are set to follow. opened at One Chamberlain Square in spring 2020 and has already made its mark on the city’s restaurant scene. Two Chamberlain Square One Chamberlain Square 10 11 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE PHASE TWO Ratcliff Square The second phase of development has started with our next office building, One Centenary Way, set to complete in 2023. This will bring a further Both of these buildings will front 280,000 sq ft of commercial Paradise Street as well as face space to the city as well as the new public realm which is new retail and leisure units. an integral part of our plans. To complete Phase Two we are The new public realm will now bringing forward proposals improve legibility for the wider for a new hotel on the south west city centre, creating new links corner of the development site for pedestrians and improving along with a further office building, access and connectivity to public Three Chamberlain Square. transport networks for all. One Centenary Way Hotel 12 13 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE INDICATIVE PHASING PLAN PHASE ONE One Chamberlain Square 150,000 sq ft let to PwC Two Chamberlain Square 183,000 sq ft PHASE TWO One Centenary Way 280,000 sq ft Three Chamberlain Square 180,000 sq ft Octagon 370 Build to rent homes Hotel 150 bed boutique hotel PHASE THREE Three Congreve Square 120,000 - 175,000 sq ft Two Centenary Way 90,000 - 105,000 sq ft One Congreve Square 100,000 - 165,000 sq ft 14 15 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE A LANDMARK BUILDING WITHIN A LANDMARK DEVELOPMENT Paradise will contain an array of impressive modern buildings, and Three Chamberlain Square will be no different. It has been designed to co- exist with and enhance its existing environment. The building has an important building could each be expressed and sensitive relationship with while having a consistent the Grade I Listed Town Hall. overall design language. The different characteristics of This approach enabled us One Chamberlain Square and Two to develop a proposal that is Chamberlain Square allowed us sympathetic to its neighbours to consider Three Chamberlain while being unique and a Square as an object, where standout contribution to the the base, middle and top of the city’s skyline in its own right. View along Paradise Street 16 17 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE 10 180,000 STOREYS sq ft FLOOR 9 FEATURES A 21,000SQ FT 3,120 SQ FT TYPICAL 270 FLOORPLATES ROOF BASEMENT BICYCLE TERRACE SPACES AND LOCKERS MOST FLOORS FEATURE 24 SHOWERS AND Winter Gardens CHANGING SPACE 18 19 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE A NOD TO HISTORY Three Chamberlain Square’s design pays homage to Birmingham’s historic Queens College Chambers , Paradise Street - Civic Gothic revival terracotta architecture while enhancing the architectural language that is manifesting in this part of the city as Paradise comes to life. While having its own distinct decorated in ‘tracery’, that character, the building borrows borrows from the Gothic revivalist from references to Classical buildings of Paradise Street and and Gothic architecture. that used to exist across the city. Inspiration was taken from Contrasting in tone allows the Birmingham’s tradition of Town Hall’s ‘silhouette’ to be beautifully crafted red terracotta read clearly from distant views buildings and will reinstate some and gives Three Chamberlain of the historic tones that once Square its own distinctive look existed in and around Paradise. while paying tribute to the past, This material approach has been meshing comfortably with both its applied to a ‘lighter’ building historic and modern surroundings. Birmingham School of Art - Red brick and terracotta with stone dressings 20 21 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE THE TOWN HALL EFFECT The building’s response to the Town Hall and the relationship to Paradise Street is to give View across Chamberlain Square the east and south elevations primacy over the north and west, without downgrading the other elevations or creating a back. The internal arrangement of floors set back more generously the building also follows this from the upper floors opposite approach with the main entrance, the Town Hall to extend the public winter gardens and roof terrace space around the building. all fronting the eastern side of the building, creating a strong The elevation adjacent to the relationship internally and Town Hall is expressed with externally with the Town Hall. special moments; a series of winter garden spaces and a continuous Ground level activity around rooftop terrace that breaks the building spills out into the down the elevation and provides landscape, creating vibrancy and interest from distant views. life at all of the building’s primary entrances, with the bottom two Three Chamberlain Square spills out into Ratcliff Passage 22 23 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE WINTER The outdoor spaces will help ♦ Offering unique views promote wellbeing amongst those across to the Town Hall who will work there, as well as: and civic heart of the city GARDENS & ♦ Bringing fresh air into the These spaces encourage a heart of the building true sensory response to the building from those outside ♦ Encouraging collaboration as well as inside its structure; and a sense of community bringing the natural world TERRACES amongst occupants onto office floorplates. ♦ Promoting a new type of space They also promote one of our to reflect new working patterns key themes, of an inside-outside approach, where individuals The unique asset of a series of Winter ♦ Bringing animation and interest can relax in the gardens year to the outside of the building round and where groups can Gardens and terraces will help elevate enjoy the space together. Three Chamberlain Square beyond being just another commercial building. Rooftop Terrace 24 25 PARADISE THREE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE MAXIMISING VIEWS As well as incorporating an external design befitting its importance and status, it was also important to consider the way the building interacts with its environment. The building’s orientation has The design is also mindful of been utilised to maximise views the relationship to the overall out to the east and south, Paradise masterplan and the across the city and towards proposed office and hotel major landmarks, offering accommodation to the north and stunning vistas of Birmingham’s west, where care has been taken skyline from upper levels.