B|D Landscape Architects Review Journal 2010 – 2015 “Landscape Architecture’S Best-Kept Secret (Until Now)”
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B|D Landscape Architects Review Journal 2010 – 2015 “Landscape architecture’s best-kept secret (until now)” Peter Tisdale, THAT Property Man Foreword BY rob beswick, director t has been a busy and productive first five years for B|D During the last five years we have been published in a number landscape architects and this journal is a round-up of of architectural journals and shortlisted for a series of Inew, in progress and completed projects. A reminder for awards. In 2013 we featured in a new book on landscape ourselves, existing clients & collaborators of time well spent, architectural graphics, a dialogue piece in an American and a brief moment of B|D reflection to see where we are design journal and won a Civic Trust Award. In 2014 we heading for the next five years! were published in four books and won a national Landscape Institute award. Through testing times we have grown into a progressive and dynamic landscape practice with an increasing number of I am very proud of what we have achieved in a short space award winning and published projects in the UK and overseas. of time and equally optimistic about where we can get to I take great pleasure in seeing each project develop from for our ten year review. I would like to take this opportunity those first flat white fuelled sketches through planning and to thank all of the talented consultants and forward-thinking construction to the completed scheme being enjoyed by the clients who have commissioned or collaborated with us public. The beauty of landscape architecture is that projects during the first five years. evolve & get better with time. Leaving our mark on the landscape is key - it may relate to my farming heritage or simply be part of our inner psyche - but designing and making is important for B|D. Review Journal 2010 – 2015 [email protected] bdlandarch.com +44 (0)1684 298 582 — B|D LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Sun Street, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5NX Contents 1. Urban 08–11 London South Bank University 12–15 king’s cross: House of Illustration 16–19 king’s cross: Tapper Walk 20–23 king’s cross temporary: q zone 24–29 king’s cross temporary: pond club 30–33 Abbey Sands 34–37 London Road regeneration 2. Campus 40–43 Oxford University: beecroft 44–47 Newcastle urban sciences 48–51 UWE Student Union 52–55 Bob champion building UEA 3. Culture 58–61 THE ARTS SPACE HEREFORD 62–63 spirax sarco 64–65 paradise city 66–67 Torbay velopark 4. Residential 70–73 HAB’s Lovedon Lane 74–75 KING EDWARD’S ROAD 76–77 VICTORIA SQUARE 78–81 Limpley Stoke EcohousE 5. Education 84–89 Emmanuel Primary School & mill lane playscape 90–93 Hilden Grange School 94–97 Eltham Hill School 98–99 city of london freemEn’s school 6. Creative 102–103 Chaumont Festival 104–105 Royal Docks Albert island 106–107 bath parklets 108–109 Slug, Snail & Barnacle 7. The Practice 112–113 about us 114–118 Team profiles 8. Appendix 119 PROJECT INDEX 120–122 Thanks & mentions 1. Urban London South Bank UniversitY king’s cross: House of Illustration king’s cross: Tapper Walk king’s cross temporary: q zone king’s cross temporary: pond club Abbey Sands LONDON ROAD REGENERATION London South Bank University 8 9 London South Bank University: Public Realm Client: London South Bank University Awards: Architects: Hawkins\Brown Winner of a 2014 Landscape Institute Award Landscape Budget: £750,000 Winner of a 2013 AJ Retrofit Award Status: Completed in 2012 Shortlisted for 2013 Design Week Awards Shortlisted for 2013 RIBA London Award The LSBU Student Centre project represented the first and benches that draw pedestrians in from Borough Road ‘anchor’ within the Estates’ strategy for the regeneration of but also allow for colonisation and use throughout the day. the campus. Its goal was to revitalise this key gateway with enhanced public realm - improving connections and legibility *David Bomberg was a member of the prolific Whitechapel between the estate and urban fabric of the area. Boys, a group of Anglo-Jewish artists and writers of the early 20th Century. He taught at the university in the 1940s and The development consisted of infilling the Undercroft area below 1950s and ‘David Bomberg House’, one of the student halls of the Tower Building to provide new student and support facilities residences at the university, is named in his honour. and important public realm entrances from Borough Road & Kell Street. A number of quality London Plane trees line Borough “This was our first completed public realm project in central Road and more varied planting of Alder, Sweet Gum & Beech London for our young practice, so I am very proud to have create a strong tree framework but also add to a shady site. left a small stamp on our capital city with an innovative design and graphic ground plane. I am pleased that we have been Our unique landscape design strategy has succeeded in able to take the strong concept design, which references creating a more attractive public realm with an ‘outward the history and heritage of LSBU, to completion on site looking’ campus and a very special sense of place with life and without losing any of the design integrity in the process. The activity to the enhanced Kell Street and the public square on view from the upper levels of the Student Centre reveals Borough Road. A high quality palette of materials, inspired by the Bomberg-inspired layout in oversize granite planks and the history and heritage of the site, were selected with semi angular lighting which forms a directional ground plane and mature tree planting and rich sensory shrub and herbaceous welcoming public space for students, staff and the public perennial beds promoting and enhancing biodiversity for to inhabit.” urban ecology. — Rob Beswick, Director of B|D Landscape Architects Drawing inspiration from history, most notably David Bomberg* - one of the Whitechapel Boys - who taught in the 1960’s in the surrounding buildings, the aim for the rejuvenated public realm gateway is to be a dynamic ‘carpet’ of quality natural stone that draws out the strong geometry of the undercroft structure into the landscape. This rigidity of structure is fractured and exploded with highlights of lighting, large highlights of contrasting paving 10 “B|D Landscape Architects have given us a great service and we enjoyed working with them and they worked well as part of the design team. Their design has totally complemented the interior design and imaginatively they have referenced a famous 1930’s artist whose work is publically displayed in an adjacent University building as inspiration when designing the hard landscape and external lighting” — Roger Tuke, Head of Development, London South Bank University © Tim Crocker 12 13 King’s Cross: House of Illustration Client: Carillion Construction Services Architects: John McAslan + Partners Landscape Budget: Confidential Status: Completed in 2014 Landscape Architects up to Detail Design: Townshend Landscape Architects Kings Cross is the redevelopment of 72 acres of redundant London Regeneration Consortium hence its original name. rail marshalling yards sandwiched between Kings Cross and In summer 2014, the building was renamed as ‘Two Granary St Pancras stations. It presented one of the most exciting Square’ and is now home to the Art Fund and much talked and significant development and regeneration opportunities about, House of Illustration. The House of Illustration’s within the UK. gallery, education space and public realm is the place to see, learn about, and enjoy illustration in all its forms, from The intention of the Masterplan by Townshend Landscape adverts to animation, picture books to political cartoons and Architects, Allies & Morrison and Porphyrios Associates was scientific drawings to fashion design. to create a fully accessible and integrated piece of the city including a whole range of cultural, commercial & residential The House of Illustration’s first exhibition was opened by Sir uses. Our involvement has been split across areas within the Quentin Blake and Joanna Lumley OBE at the heart of the redevelopment including; House of Illustration, Tapper Walk, Q King’s Cross regeneration area in July 2014 and described it Zone and Pond Club. as “the new hub of London”. We worked with Carillion Construction Services on the planning, detail design and construction phases of this small but high quality phase of the King’s Cross public realm development. The building, previously known as ‘Regeneration House’ was designed by Lewis Cubitt in 1850 and was initially conceived as the nerve-centre of the original King’s Cross Goods Yard. Regeneration House suffered extensive bomb damage during World War II and was refurbished in the 1980s by the 14 16 17 King’s Cross: Tapper Walk Client: Carillion Construction Services Landscape Budget: Confidential Status: Completed in 2014 Landscape Architects up to Detail Design: Townshend Landscape Architects We were appointed to work with Carillion Construction Services on the detail design and construction phase of the Tapper Walk stage of the King’s Cross Masterplan which was completed in summer 2014. Tapper Walk is an important connection from York Way into the King’s Cross development leading to Cubitt Park with level access and a tree lined entrance into the park. High quality York Stone, tactile timber benches and semi- mature London Plane trees comprise the landscape palette with reclaimed granite setts used above the linear tree pits. Clusters of cycle stands define the tree pits and the broad walk providing a great vantage point over the extensive Cubitt Park. 18 20 21 King’s Cross (Temporary): Q Zone Client: Carillion Construction Services & Kings Cross General Partner Ltd Architects: John McAslan + Partners Landscape Budget: Confidential Status: Completed in 2013 Landscape Architects up to Detail Design: Townshend Landscape Architects Working on Zone Q, the third stage of the Masterplan Project, we have designed a new temporary urban recreation park and important piece of public realm connecting York Way with York Street.