LANDSCAPE & URBAN DESIGN WORKBOOK
JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS CONTENTS
4 Creating a Sense of Place
“OUR WORK EXPLORES THE UNIQUE AND UNDERLYING Projects 8 Goldsmiths College Masterplan SPIRIT OF ‘THE SITE’. WE DELIVER CONTEMPORARY 10 Birley Fields Masterplan SOLUTIONS THAT CELEBRATE THE PAST, SEEK NEW 11 Heal’s 12 University of Manchester Masterplan OPPORTUNITIES, HEAL BROKEN AND ABUSED PLACES 14 Leeds Student Village AND RE-CONNECT PEOPLE WITH THEIR CULTURE, 16 Sloane Street 18 Heritage Quarter Houses HERITAGE AND COMMUNITY.” 22 Royal BC Museum 26 East Croydon Interchange 28 Euston Circus Masterplan ANDY HARRIS, DIRECTOR, JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS 30 Bolshevik Factory 32 Mosfilm 38 Sugar Factory Masterplan 42 Stanislavsky Factory 46 British Embassy Algiers 50 Tate Millbank Masterplan 52 Thomas Tallis School 54 George Square 58 Wood Wharf 60 King’s Cross Station 62 Northern Line Extension 64 Crossrail Bond Street Station 65 Oxford Road Corridor 66 Dalston Junction Interchange 68 Calsberg Tetley, Thames Wharf 70 Bogota Masterplan 72 Dongguan Botanical Masterplan 76 The Cornhill 78 Fresh Kills Masterplan 81 Max Mara Headquarters
82 Timeline 84 End Matter 4 Landscape 5 Creating a sense of place CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE
Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow, Russia George Square, Glasgow
Urban design and landscape design are directed towards a bold social purpose: to London. important buildings. For example, the nominally different disciplines. But, in create a sizeable, properly connected part Landscape design often plays a key practice’s design of the British Embassy essence, they are closely linked: they of the city that feels “owned” by those who role in our urban design approach. The in Algiers was conceived as part of the make fresh sense, at various scales, of live and work there, regardless of their fundamental challenge inevitably lies practice’s wider landscape design for the our streetscapes, and the very ground demographic status. in deciding how to apply contemporary Embassy site as a whole; the landscape under our feet. John McAslan + Partners’ urban design landscape designs to evolving contexts dovetailed with the radiused plan of the At its best, landscape design produces and landscape studio has designed and that may be historic, or dominated by building, and changes in levels across a heightened sense of the human and delivered schemes in many different cultural imperatives, or are within urban the site. The Embassy’s architecture and material spirit of place, whether it takes ways in a wide range of contexts. They or site areas that are barely coherent. its landscape form a single coherent the form of a specific landmark-space, have included historically important The practice searches for design qualities composition. or as a series of connective or layered civic spaces and commercial hot-spots; that will create meaningful individual In Moscow, the practice’s landscape spaces. The most notable recent example massive city regeneration zones; corporate landscapes, or a spatial and physical design for the regenerated Stanislavsky of a fusion of these qualities can be seen headquarters such as the Max Mara narrative with specific atmospheres, Factory site dealt with a totally different in JMP’sour scheme for the Botanical campus in Reggio Emilia; schools and physical characteristics and purposes that situation: a large asymmetrical site Garden universities; settings for infrastructure will also be durable and highly functional. on which ex-industrial buildings were in Dongguan, China. hubs; and in ambitious proposals such as The practice has applied these design randomly positioned. The landscape Urban design gives logical form to the the vast Fresh Kills landfill site on Staten skills at every scale – from the simple scheme, publicly praised by the Mayor re-ordering of urban areas, sites, of Island. use of excess building materials to create of Moscow, was the first of its kind in the collections of buildings. Ideally, this Recent projects with significant landscape play-mounds at the Lavender Sure Start city. should lead to the finer details of spatial, design elements include historically Nursery School in Merton, South London, A common thread linking all the projects civil, landscape, or infrastructural sensitive courtyard treatments at the to our international competition-winning in this book is the belief that good design innovations that may not have been Heritage Houses site in Doha, the designs for the transformation of London’s can deliver distinctive qualities of place evident at the beginning of the design parkland elements of the practice’s Oxford Street, and Glasgow’s George and community energy to the most process. redevelopment of the 7ha Sugar Factory Square, one of a handful of Britain’s challenging of urban settings. This fusion of the logical and the site in Moscow, and the riverside greatest urban tableaux. stimulating informs all the practice’s landscape design for JMP’s Carlsberg Ambitious landscape design can be Jay Merrick urban design and public realm projects, Tetley Wharf mixed-use development in crucial in redefining the settings of whether they’re for iconic sites such as Sloane Street in London, or to establish greater connectivity and development potential in complex urban situations, such as those around the various sites of the Goldsmiths College campus. Urban design is about more than physical change – sometimes strikingly so. For example, the practice’s masterplan and urban design vision for the CAN district of Bogotá, the capital of Columbia, proposed the creation of a Garden City within the city, and though the elements and layout are generally familiar, its proposals were Hanover Square urban integration study Heals, London Bolshevik Factory, Moscow, Russia PROJECTS 8 Landscape 9 Projects GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE MASTERPLAN LEWISHAM, LONDON
John McAslan + Partners was appointed to prepare a masterplan for Goldsmiths College from 2009 – 2019. This commission involves a comprehensive space management plan of all the buildings and departments within the campus aiming to improve space utilisation and efficiency. The masterplan also establishes a new public realm vision for the campus creating new development sites and linking the College into the wider regenerative initiatives of Lewisham and New Cross Gate. The commission also creates a sustainable masterplan with a coherent approach to the use management and development of the college estate over the next decade.
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Lewisham Way New Cross Road
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civic space Laurie Grove Laurie Dixon Rd
the square garden student gardens
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gardens new entrance St Jame’s St
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Above: site masterplan; right: view of proposed masterplan 10 Landscape 11 Projects HEAL’S BIRLEY FIELDS MASTERPLAN CAMDEN, LONDON MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
John McAslan + Partners has completed The practice was commissioned to produce the first phase of the redevelopment a strategic development framework for the of the Grade II * listed Heal’s Building 12 acre Birley Fields campus in Hulme, on Tottenham Court Road, a project a mixed-use proposal regenerating an commissioned by Threadneedle Property existing brown field site. The development Investors and The Bedford Estates. unites some 6,000 students training to The scheme redevelops former factory become teachers, nurses, social workers buildings and showrooms, improving and other health care professionals within a connectivity and access. Two dramatic single site. The proposals for Birley Fields, 4-storey atria spaces are linked by an seek to create the greenest university internal ‘street’, terminating in a newly campus in the UK, with environmental landscaped courtyard garden. The sustainability integral to all design. 40,000 sqft of office space has a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating.
Above and right: masterplan model and masterplan in context
Right; view of internal walkway; below: courtyard view. 12 Landscape 13 Projects UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER PUBLIC REALM MASTERPLAN MANCHESTER
This complex, award-winning example of urban design and design co-ordination has provided the University of Manchester with a revitalised campus, and one which links physically, socially and visually with the city of Manchester. The design includes significant new open spaces to extend the public realm into the site, supported by new cycle and pedestrian routes across the campus. At the heart of the design brief was the university’s desire to reduce the sense of divide between ‘town and gown’ in this part of the city, and foster a more democratically inclusive image of higher education.
Right: site plan; opposite and below: informal landscape areas 14 Landscape 15 Projects LEEDS STUDENT VILLAGE LEEDS
The practice together with a team of leading consultants, are commissioned by Downing to undertake design work for a masterplan, landscape design, refurbishment works and a new 21-storey student accommodation tower as part of their proposed Student Village. The landscape is crucial in ‘knitting’ the disparate buildings and architecture into an integrated whole. With a 6m change in level from one end of the site to the other, the design needed to overcome numerous topographic challenges, but makes the most of the opportunities afforded through the creation of terraces and seat walls set into the slope. The predominantly green campus space unfolds around a central square: a new gathering space at the heart of the student community.
Opposite: deep flower borders and planting soften and enliven the many public routes across the campus; above: site plan; right: visualisation of phase 1 scheme 16 Landscape 17 Projects SLOANE STREET KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, LONDON
John McAslan + Partners has been appointed by Cadogan Estates to develop a new urban design vision for the world famous Sloane Street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. Although home to some of the most exclusive fashion houses in the world, the character and quality of the street could be considerably enhanced. Our work has investigated the wider network of streets, through evidence based analysis, and established strategies for urban renewal, enhanced connectivity, traffic management and public realm enhancements.
Top: shopping map of central London, showing ‘nodes’ of activity, with Sloane Street; right: axonometric diagram showing how the scheme proposes to unlock further potential on this high profile street. The study assesses existing land use, street furniture, accessibility, utilities, movement patterns and landscape in order to understand how these physical and functional conditions affect the street’s economic, social and cultural character; opposite bottom right: views of Sloane Street’s prestigious retail amenities 18 Landscape 19 Projects HERITAGE QUARTER COURTYARDS DOHA, QATAR
This collection of historically important houses in Doha are being refurbished and re-instated as museum buildings as part of the ambitious Msheireb Downtown Doha project. The public realm aspect of the design unifies the site into a single, distinctly legible environment. The museum’s landscapes are extraordinarily diverse in their programme and function. The Museum of Slavery Courtyard at the Al Jelmood House is an evocative and metaphoric landscape ensemble that has real meaning and resonance. Company House is at the centre of the Cultural Quarter and the external courtyard has been designed to accommodate large scale events and exhibitions.
Right: site plan; below: aerial view of the Heritage Quarter at night; opposite: View of Bayt Jelmood Courtyard. 20 Landscape 21 Projects
Top: aerial view of Bayt Jelmood Courtyard; above left: view of courtyard at night; above right: aerial photograph of Doha, dating from the early 1950’s; opposite top: View of Bayt Mohammed Bin Jassim courtyard; opposite below: view of typical courtyard. 22 Landscape 23 Projects ROYAL BC MUSEUM VICTORIA, CANADA
In 2013 John McAslan + Partners completed the public realm and landscape masterplan for the Royal British Columbia Museum in British Columbia, Canada as part of their 2017 vision for the Museum. JMP’s role has been to re-invigorate the internal and neglected external spaces of a currently fragmented site, and enhance the presentation of the Museum to the wider urban context. The landscape approach has been to piece together a hitherto disparate series of spaces into a clearly legible, purposeful and connected museum campus. The design will help attract new visitors to the site and expand the Museum’s wider recreational appeal, as well as enhanced external display spaces.
Above: aerial view of proposed Museum grounds; opposite and overleaf: the proposed external Museum experience 24 Landscape 25 Projects 26 Landscape 27 Projects EAST CROYDON INTERCHANGE CROYDON, GREATER LONDON
Our masterplan for East Croydon Interchange will transform Croydon’s primary arrival point,- East Croydon Station and its surrounding transport modes - tram stops, bus interchange and taxi ranks. The scheme specifically addresses the pedestrian experience, particularly the link between the ECI area westwards towards Croydon’s town centre. The masterplan unifies and rationalises these different transport modes and enhances public realm by creating new plazas - with improved lighting, planting and street furniture. The masterplan will assist orientation and create a sense of civic pride in what has been hitherto a confusing and challenging urban environment.
Top right: site plan; right: photograph of the site prior to redevelopment; below: section through enhanced intermodal interchange; opposite: visualisation showing detail of proposed public realm treatment 28 Landscape 29 Projects EUSTON CIRCUS MASTERPLAN CAMDEN, LONDON
John McAslan + Partners and Hyder Consulting were appointed by Transport for London to develop Urban Design and Landscape Proposals for this important site, located on the Euston Road in Central London. The scheme is transforming the site from a traffic- dominated road junction into an attractive and pedestrian-friendly public space. At the heart of the scheme is an organising ‘frame’ giving structure to the space and creating a legible pedestrian environment. Overlaid on and adjacent to the ‘frame’ is a suite of high quality paving materials, furniture and tree planting. John McAslan + partners are liaising and consulting closely with the TFL, London Borough of Camden and the Mayors Design Advisory Panel.
Above right: site plan; below: view of new hard surfacing and benches
Above: elevated view of completed scheme; left: view of Euston Circus prior to redevelopment 30 Landscape 31 Projects BOLSHEVIK FACTORY MOSCOW
The Bolshevik Factory comprises 17 buildings of varying ages and styles, including listed buildings dating from 1884 which were the first buildings in Moscow to boast electric light. The 50,000 sqm redevelopment will feature covered ‘streets’ and office space with exceptional views over Moscow city and beyond. The scheme is a model of adaptive re-use, transforming an important example of the city’s great industrial heritage into a high quality environment for contemporary commercial use.
Opposite: glazed internal ‘streets’ connect the blocks of office accommodation; above right: site plan; below: the project features generous landscaped gardens, unusual in Moscow commercial developments 32 Landscape 33 Projects
MOSFILM MOSCOW
John McAslan + Partners has won an international competition to design a world-class mixed-use scheme on the site of the celebrated Mosfilm studios, located in one of Moscow’s most prestigious residential areas. Mosfilm produced widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Eisenstein to Tarkovsky. The practice is appointed as lead architect, masterplanner and landscape architect and the scheme will include a significant commercial element as well as a new concert hall.
Opposite: view of proposed redevelopment; below: site plan; overleaf: night view showing main entrance to the site 34 Landscape 35 Projects 36 Landscape 37 Projects
Left: view of the proposed redevelopment; top: view of one of the original studio buildings; above: visualisation showing proposed reconfiguration of the main atrium space 38 Landscape 39 Projects SUGAR FACTORY MASTERPLAN MOSCOW, RUSSIA
This significant residential development is located centrally within Moscow City centre in the area of Big City on Mantulinskaya Street. The accessible city centre location together with waterside location and existing parkland amenity, provides a unique opportunity to provide a sustainable community of upwards of 1000 residential units. Covering an area of more than 7 hectares and over one quarter of a mile in length from east to west, the project was conceived within the challenging constraints imposed by the future adjacent infrastructure initiatives planned by the City Authorities and strict health and safety and planning rules relating to the adjacent hospital site. John McAslan and Partners were responsible for the masterplanning of both architecture and landscape.
Overleaf above: site locations; overleaf below: site plan; above: visualisation showing site; left: visualisation showing courtyard; right: visualisation showing park view. 40 Landscape 41 Projects 42 Landscape 43 Projects STANISLAVSKY FACTORY MOSCOW, RUSSIA
The award-winning transformation of the historically important Stanislavsky Factory site in Moscow, originally developed in the 19th century by one of Russia’s leading industrialists and cultural patrons, the Stanislavsky family, has sensitively linked refurbished historic elements and new interventions. This mixed-use business and cultural scheme consists of thirteen buildings, including offices, luxury apartments, a hotel, restaurant, and theatre. The landscape design, a new approach in urban Moscow, created a series of linked public and semi-private open spaces of considerable variety, despite considerable challenges in terms of public access, building orientation, and major level changes of up to 4m across the site.
Opposite and below: planting is arranged in a clearly defined arrangement of raised planters; right: site plan; below right: timber decking creates a contemporary new public space, a vibrant focal point within the scheme, enlivened by the activities generated by the theatre 44 Landscape 45 Projects
Left, top and above: the landscape scheme creates a sequence of linked, publicly accessible green oases, a unique amenity in Moscow 46 Landscape 47 Projects BRITISH EMBASSY ALGIERS ALGERIA
The design of the British Embassy in Algiers reflects the cultures of both Britain and Algeria. The 1,770sqm three-level building is set out on the axis of the retained neo-Moorish Ambassador’s Residence dating from 1902. The design, preserving views out over the Bay of Algiers, was conceived as a series of curved, parallel walls carving gracefully through the sloping landscape to enclose the primary circulation space and office accommodation. The circular geometry of the new landscape provides a dramatic setting for both new and old elements.
Opposite top: site plan; opposite below, above, right and overleaf: the design of the new structure and the landscape scheme was conceived as a coherent whole, the curving geometry creating clearly defined areas of varied and distinctive planting 48 Landscape 49 Projects 50 Landscape 51 Projects TATE MILLBANK MASTERPLAN WESTMINSTER, LONDON
John McAslan + Partners’ investigation of urban initiatives to enhance the identity of the Millbank Neighbourhood and Tate Britain reinforces the physical, social, cultural, and economic connectivity to surrounding districts and the River Thames. Tate Britain, situated between Westminster, Vauxhall, Chelsea, Victoria and Pimlico, is part of a wider cultural and heritage corridor linking to Westminster and Parliament, and on to the National Gallery and the West End. The Millbank Urban Strategy reinforces Tate Britain’s role as an important cultural destination whilst improving the character and setting of the local neighbourhood, as well as reconnecting Millbank with the River, resolving the barrier caused by the road and the poor quality of riverside amenities.
Below, right and opposite below: proposed connections to strengthen the relationship between Tate Britain and its urban context 52 Landscape 53 Projects THOMAS TALLIS SCHOOL GREENWICH, LONDON
The landscape design comprises a rich mix of urban style courtyard spaces, informal landscape areas and ecological/ flood mitigation areas. At the heart of the school are predominantly hard landscape spaces providing flexible areas for outdoor teaching, gatherings and events, and which are also available for use by the surrounding community. Surrounding the main teaching and administrative blocks is a softer, picturesque landscape providing areas for informal seating, play, recreation and sports. Susceptible to flooding, the scheme also includes flood mitigation techniques that have also been used to increase biodiversity.
Opposite and below: the design of the school and its extensive landscape setting creates a cohesive environment; above: site diagram 54 Landscape 55 Projects GEORGE SQUARE GLASGOW
George Square is one of Britain’s handful of great city-centre civic spaces. Its architectural and spatial set-piece qualities date back to the 1780’s. The practice’s competition-winning design proposal heightens the synergies between the architectural and spatial qualities of the square. The design accentuates its pivotal position in the city as a unique breathing space, at precisely the point where the original Georgian central grid meets its Victorian extension. Because of the increasing social and commercial energy around George Square, our scheme avoided radical interventions, but ensured that this great space would have a re-energised civility for decades to come.
Opposite: view of the Square as proposed by the new design; top: plan identifying the Square’s relationship with other key city hubs; right: the competition-winning masterplan, creating a greater formal presence, a more robust geometry and greater flexibility of potential use 56 Landscape 57 Projects
Top and above: the Square has always been a focus of civic life in Glasgow; bottom and right: the scheme proposed greater flexibility of uses, whilst reaffirming the Square’s important civic presence and historic identity 58 Landscape 59 Projects WOOD WHARF CANARY WHARF, LONDON
John McAslan + Partners was selected to complete a masterplan for the next phase of Canary Wharf (regarded as the most successful development of its kind in Europe, with a working population of 200,000). The Canary Wharf Group was looking to develop the site immediately to the East around the existing Grade I listed West India Docks. Our designs provided 8,000 new homes, a school, library and commercial space in a range of buildings located around the dock edge. Within the development, a new Ramblas style road would connect West to East, comprising parkland, retail pop-ups and pedestrian areas.
Opposite: a restrained palette of high quality materials defines key areas of public realm; below: masterplan; above right: 3D site plan highlighting the graceful linear park running across the site 60 Landscape 61 Projects KING’S CROSS STATION CAMDEN, LONDON
Widely praised for its design and refurbishment of the Grade I listed Station, the practice also undertook much of the urban realm and landscape work including the St. Pancras Plaza entrance to the north, surrounding streetscape and the Western Concourse and the Station platforms. Our team also acted as advisors for the design of the recently completed square to the south of the Station entrance. The carefully choreographed ensemble of landscape, street furniture, wayfinding and architecture is one of the great successes of the station refurbishment.
Opposite and right: the practice’s role as lead architect ensured that all aspects of this highly complex scheme were coherent, including key areas of public realm, both internal and external; below: masterplan 62 Landscape 63 Projects
NORTHERN LINE EXTENSION SOUTHWARK, LAMBETH & WANDSWORTH, LONDON
The practice is at the heart of the £1billion infrastructure investment project to regenerate Nine Elms, creating 25,000 new jobs and 16,000 new homes. JMP is developing the above-ground elements of two new stations and their urban context. These schemes include a significant over- station development at Nine Elms. The practice is working alongside Halcrow, who are leading a technical team designing the subsurface infrastructure, and design work has been progressed on the layout of the stations and shafts.
Above: view of new pedestrianised street at Nine Elms; right: two new stations are being created at Nine Elms and Battersea. Kennington Station is being upgraded and two new ventilation shafts are being provided at Kennington Park and Kennington Green 64 Landscape 65 Projects CROSSRAIL BOND STREET OXFORD ROAD CORRIDOR WESTMINSTER, LONDON MANCHESTER
The practice is delivering Crossrail’s Bond This ambitious masterplan for a 215 ha Street station. Consisting of two distinct tranche of Manchester realigned a number station elements at Davies Street and of smaller local regeneration initiatives Hanover Square, the scheme forms part to provide the basis for a unified urban of Europe’s largest single construction development strategy based on spatial and project. The new Bond Street Station economic impact analyses. A new creative consists of two deep east-west platforms, media zone, housing, and community emerging at street level via two new ticket business development will activate halls south of Oxford Street. Connecting to threshold regeneration on the eastern the existing London Underground station, edge of the ORC. Oxford Road would be the new interchange will serve 230,000 revitalised, and a new science park created, people daily when complete in 2018. The helping to reinforce Manchester’s position practice is also undertaking an urban as the ‘Knowledge Capital’ of the North. integration and landscaping study in collaboration with the City of Westminster, Grosvenor and Great Portland Estates, to embed the station in its immediate and wider context.
Below: underground tunnel construction; Right: urban integration study.
Above: masterplan; above right: regenerative proposal to create a unified public realm and development strategy 66 Landscape 67 Projects DALSTON JUNCTION HACKNEY, LONDON
The practice designed this major residential development in Dalston, which includes a new station and a public square. The scheme comprises 309 apartments and forms a key component of the East London Line extension linking Hackney to the North with Croydon to the South. The scheme has become the pivot-point of a part of London that, until a few years ago, had no widely-known social or cultural cachet. The situation is very different today, and this scheme has played a central role in raising the profile of Dalston as one of London’s most fashionable cultural hot-spots.
Right: view of completed scheme; opposite below: site plan; opposite: view of completed development and public realm 68 Landscape 69 Projects CARLSBERG TETLEY WHARF NEWHAM, LONDON
John McAslan and Partners were commissioned to develop a mixed use masterplan for a high profile riverside location opposite the Millennium Dome known as Thames Wharf, in the London Borough of Newham. The design team developed the scheme within the context of significant site constraints, including the flight path requirements of the nearby City Airport, Flood mitigation measures and the existing DLR and Silvertown Way that run adjacent to and through the site. Responsible for both the architectural and landscape masterplans, JMP’s proposals eschew the typical windswept docklands typologies in favour of a traditional Thameside village narrative; with buildings and neighborhoods centred around streets, squares and commons. At the same time the site’s industrial heritage and stunning waterside location is celebrated.
Opposite: site location; below: visualisation of site. 70 Landscape 71 Projects BOGOTÁ MASTERPLAN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA
Our masterplan vision for the 85 hectare CAN site proposes an urban tableau anchored to a grand, car-free 2km promenade – an extraordinary public amenity which will link the area between the National University and Simon Bolivar Park. The scheme is founded on the idea of creating a 21st-century Garden City within Bogotá, where nature and landscape can encourage the natural mixing of different people and different purposes. The central parkland knits CAN’s urban plan together – a large and democratic green space designed to be shared equally by government administrators, students, business people, householders, shoppers and performers.
Opposite: masterplan; above: visualisation showing the scale and civic impact of the proposed masterplan 72 Landscape 73 Projects BOTANICAL GARDENS DONGGUAN, CHINA
The indoor and external spaces of this spectacular botanical garden in Dongguan, China, will, when completed, provide a landscape that facilitates both botanical research and offers an exhilarating experience for visitors - interpreting the natural processes and splendour of a tropical rain forest. The practice worked alongside botanical experts in China to achieve educational and botanical objectives in an innovatively instructive way. Rope bridges, rock faces, intimate contact with waterfalls and plants, were key requirements of the brief, which was intent on replicating the physical and environmental drama of rain forests. Opposite top: part section through the scheme; opposite bottom and overleaf: visualisations showing the proposed internal landscape; below: diagram showing proposed landscape composition 74 Landscape 75 Projects 76 Landscape 77 Projects THE CORNHILL IPSWICH
Centred on Ipswich’s main square, the practice’s proposals for this two-stage competition included a thorough analysis of the urban and retail context, in order to fully address the challenges Ipswich faces as a fading retail centre. Our scheme examined the potential to re-inforce the historic link between The Cornhill and the thriving waterfront, and an ambitious strategy aimed at encouraging a self sustaining range of uses around the perimeter of the Square, that would once again place The Cornhill at the heart of civic life in Ipswich.
Right: site diagram; opposite: visualisations of The Cornhill viewed in varying weather conditions 78 Landscape 79 Projects FRESH KILLS MASTERPLAN STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK
Following an open international competition, the practice was selected as one of three finalists for the Fresh Kills Landfill to Landscape competition. The jury commended our scheme as “compelling, well researched and comprehensive”. Covering over 2,000 acres on the west coast of the Island, the site is unique, containing the largest capped landfill in the world together with a significant area of intact tidal wildlife habitat. As the largest ongoing landscape project in the region, Fresh Kills is intended to be a key open amenity for the Island, the City and the region.
Right: visualisation showing the rich potential of the vast site for a wide range of leisure and sporting activities; below: site plan; opposite below: view of the existing site 80 Landscape 81 Projects MAX MARA HEADQUARTERS REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY
The practice won an invited international competition in 1996 to design this 45,000sqm headquarters complex for Max Mara, Italy’s leading fashion house. Completed in phases by 2004, this low energy-use development on a 30ha rural site south of Milan relates to its historic landscape setting in a distinctive and architecturally timeless way. The principal buildings are individually expressed using a distinctive architectural vocabulary of concrete, steel, brick and glass. The landscape design is deliberately formal, with strong linear arangements, creating an impressive setting for the new complex.
Opposite and this page: the scheme creates a formalised, contemporary interpretation of the classic Italian landscape 82 Landscape 83 Projects PRE 2006 2007 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 -
Fresh Kills Masterplan (2002) Goldsmiths College Masterplan University of Manchester Thomas Tallis School George Square King’s Cross Station Heritage Quarter Courtyards Bolshevik Factory Sugar Factory Masterplan Sloane Street Masterplan Staten Island, New York London Manchester London Glasgow London Doha, Qatar Moscow Moscow London
Max Mara Headquarters (2004) Oxford Road Corridor British Embassy Algiers Leeds Student Village Royal BC Museum Bogotá Masterplan Euston Circus Bond Street Urban Reggio Emilia, Italy Manchester Algeria Leeds Victoria, Canada Colombia London Integration Study, London
University of Lancaster (2006) Stanislavsky Factory Wood Wharf Botanical Gardens Dalston Junction Crossrail Lancaster Moscow, Russia Canary Wharf, London Dongguan, China London London
Tate Millbank The Cornhill East Croydon Interchange Heal’s Mosfilm London Ipswich Croydon, Greater London London Moscow
Birley Fields Masterplan King’s Cross Station Manchester Metropolitan University London END MATTER 85 Projects
Fresh Kills Masterplan Thomas Tallis School The Cornhill Bolshevik Factory Client City of New York, Department of Planning Client Babcock International Group Plc Client Ipswich Borough Council Client 01 Properties / Tactics Group Dates 2002 & Greenwich Council Dates 2013 Dates 2012 – 2015 Area 1,100 ha Dates 2007 – 2011 Area 0.25 ha Area 50,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Area 2 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Arup Team John McAslan + Partners GIA Equation, Buro Happold Miwel NSD, Davis Langdon Appleyard & Trew LLP, DTZ Buro Happold Max Mara Headquarters BDP, Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd The Fountain Workshop Limited Spectrum Client Max Mara Fashion Group AB Development Dates 1996 – 2004 Leeds Student Village Heritage Quarter Courtyards and Public Realm GIA Equation Area 30 ha Client Downing Client Msheireb Properties Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2010 – 2014 Dates 2011 – 2014 Mosfilm Intertecno SpA Milan, Arcdesign Area 4.4 ha Area 2.6 ha Client Mosfilm Peter Walker & Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2014 - onwards Ambiente Europa,Unieco S.c.r.l Alan Johnson Partnership Buro Happold, Davis Langdon, Arab Area - Frabboni S.p.A Omega Fire Engineering, Bureau, TIME Qatar Team John McAslan + Partners
University of Lancaster Masterplan George Square Euston Circus Masterplan Sugar Factory Client Lancaster University Client Glasgow City Council Client Transport for London Client Sugar Factory Dates 2006 – ongoing Dates 2012 Dates 2011 – 2013 Dates 2013 - 2017 Area 7.4 ha Area 5 ha Area 1 ha Area 41,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Theobald & Gardner Arup Hyder Consulting Dalston Junction Interchange Goldsmiths Masterplan Royal BC Museum Sloane Street Client Barratt East London Client Goldsmiths College, London Client Royal British Columbia Museum Client Cadogan Estates Transport for London Dates 2007 – 2019 Dates 2012 Dates 2013 – ongoing Development Agency and Area 3.5 ha Area 1.8 ha Area 5 ha London Borough of Hackney Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2004 – 2014 Arup, Gardiner & Theobald Arup WSP, Space Syntax Area 33,000 Sqm Team John McAslan + Partners University of Manchester Masterplan Wood Wharf Masterplan Bond Street Urban Integration Study Goddard Manton Client University of Manchester Client Canary Wharf Group Client Crossrail Ltd ATK II Dates 2004 - 2007 Dates 2012 Dates 2009 – 2018 Whitecode Design Associates Ltd Area 10 ha Area 4.7 ha Area 3 ha Barratt Homes Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners AA Projects, Bucknall Austin WSP, Balfour Beatty Management Crossrail Bond Street RW Gregory, Gifford and Partners King’s Cross Station Corderoy Client Crossrail Ltd PDA Partnership Client Network Rail Dates 2009 – 2018 Dates 2007 - 2013 Oxford Road Corridor Area 30,000 Sqm British Embassy Algiers Area 1.7 ha Client Manchester City Council Team John McAslan + Partners Client British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2004 - 2007 WSP Dates 2005 – 2009 David Bonnett Associates Area 214 HA Balfour Beatty Management Area 4.5 ha Team John McAslan + Partners, Corderoy Team John McAslan + Partners Bogotá Masterplan Tribal HCH, Faber & Maunsell Arup, MACE Client Empresa de Renovacion Urbana Virgilio Northern Line Extension Barco Client Transport for London Stanislavsky Factory Dates 2013 Birley Fields Masterplan Dates 2012 – ongoing Client Horus Capital Area 85 ha Client Manchester Metropolitan University Area 5km long corridor Dates 2004 – 2009 Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2008 - 2009 Team John McAslan + Partners Area 6 ha Area 45,000 sqm Halcrow Team John McAslan + Partners Dongguan Botanical Gardens Team John McAslan + Partners, StudioDare Client Vanke Arup, Gardiner & Theobald, Buro Happold Tate Millbank Masterplan Dates 2013 Colin Buchanan and Partners, Corderoy Client Tate Britain Area 0.6 ha Drivers Jonas Dates 2009 Team John McAslan + Partners Area 2 ha Buro Happold Heal’s Credits Team John McAslan + Partners Client Threadneedle Property Investments Essay Jay Merrick, architecture critic Drivers Jonas East Croydon Masterplan Ltd and The Bedford Estates Design Lisa Sjukur, April Client London Borough of Croydon Dates 2008 – 2014 Dates 2013 Area 5,000 sqm Area 2 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Tuffin Ferraby Taylor LLP WSP Cundall, McLaren Montagu Evans LLP Credits Essay Jay Merrick, architecture critic Design Lisa Sjukur, April `We create architecture which improves people’s lives. We We believe that the city is one of humanity’s most aim for an architecture which is rational and poetic, robust impressive and precious cultural achievements. We also and delightful; we tread carefully and build with conviction; believe that cities are more than a collection of buildings; we tackle problems head on and think laterally; we cities are about connections, transport, communications, deconstruct the brief and let a design emerge from a close public spaces and joy. We believe in locating our buildings examination of the pieces; we don’t necessarily take ‘no’ firmly into their contexts - not as slavish repetition but for an answer; we believe the power of architecture extends as a considered response to site, materiality, amenity, much further than the dimensions of individual buildings; scale and culture. we believe architecture is about making life better. We don’t believe in the value of a house style; if we have We believe that buildings should be underpinned by a a house style it is one of process, not of form. We are powerful idea; that the idea should be an intelligent and functionalists. We believe a good building is an expression logical response to functionality and a sense of place; and of a clear and rational diagram. We believe in the value the power of that idea should be embedded in the built of research. We believe in contemporary design for a form. That way, clients get the buildings they need and changing world.’ society gets the architecture it deserves.
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