Defining a Vision for Place
UCL Summer School Place Alliance
Laura Mazzeo, Partner What is it all about?
• Understanding the bigger picture
• ‘Place’ as the client
• Growing around transport hubs
• Height versus density: Typologies for work, live, play
• Streets of the future: Autonomous Vehicles Understanding the Bigger Picture Euston Road : from thoroughfare to public space Re-thinking roads and streets From thoroughfares to civic spaces Re-thinking roads and streets From thoroughfares to civic spaces Re-thinking roads and streets From thoroughfares to civic spaces Euston Circus
Before (2004) After (2014) Re-thinking roads and streets From thoroughfares to civic spaces St Giles Circus and Bloomsbury, retro-fitting existing streets Client: TfL, UCL, Design for London others Local Authority: Westminster City Council, London Borough of Camden St Giles Circus and Bloomsbury, retro-fitting existing streets St Giles Circus and Bloomsbury, retro-fitting existing streets Old Oak Common: Avoiding ‘cock-ups’ OLD OAK COMMON: A UK and European Transport Super Hub
Old Oak Common: Current vision Vision for New Queens Park City-wide place review There are 34 bridges in London but only one east of Tower Bridge
Place Review: What is it?
• Holistic – not just ‘red line’ of planning applications • Early - to understand issues at village, town and city scale • Collaborative – with local communities and local government participating through workshops and charrettes • Broad – including hospitals, housing estates, public realm and transport infrastructure Farrell Review: Two years on ‘Place’ as the client
Earls Court Masterplan Shaping West London Earls Court Today
West Kensington Estate Pelham Crescent
Earls Court 1 TFL Depot A history of continuous change
London’s Lost Rivers
1841 1897 1907 1945
• 18th Century: estates and market gardens • 19th Century: canals, rail, industry • 20th Century: conferences & exhibitions • 21st Century: 2012 Olympics… What change is needed now?
● More of London and what makes London great…
● Monoculture to multi-culture • Informal ● Multi-polarity • Varied • Delightful ● Differentiation and Diversity • Humane • Inclusive • The work of many hands The Core Vision
Four Villages and a High Street Four Villages
West Kensington Village
Warwick Green Village
North End Village
West Brompton Village A 21st Century High Street and Broadway Open Space Strategy and the Lost River Park A Strategy for Movement
Cycle Routes Bus Routes
Pedestrian/Cycle Routes Tube/Rail Stations
Wider Connections Service Vehicles Cars & Taxis A Strategy for Diversity
A 21st Century High Street
Before After Integration with Local Centres The Masterplan…
…in context
Earls Court, planning ahead Earls Court, planning ahead
West Kensington Station
Transport Earls Court Interchange West Station Brompton Station Growing around transport hubs Locations of London’s great railway stations & Circle Line THE TUBE – London Underground
London Underground Railways map, 1926
Piccadilly Circus cross-section – ‘the stomach diagram’ INTEGRATED CONNECTIVITY: Networks and self-ordering, roads
Proposed “motorway box” As built: M25 and North / South circulars GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE: Farrells Projects
Kowloon Station development – Hong Kong Incheon Airport - Seoul Beijing South Masterplan and integrated High Speed Station Waterloo Station Beijing South Station
Beijing South Station – Same Scale Comparison Kings Cross Station
St. Pancras Station
Kings Cross & St Pancras Stations New Guangzhou Station
Guangzhou Station – Same Scale Comparison Guangzhou Station ALL infrastructure in the UK builds on the power of networks… To create INTEGRATED CONNECTIVITY London’s success as the world’s most successful ‘super-aerotropolis’ is based on its constellation of airports…
• At 135m passengers per year, London’s market is much bigger than New York (106m) Tokyo (91m) Paris (88m) Beijing (81m) • Each airport makes a unique contribution in a dynamic market • The constellation provides capacity, competition, and choice • It provides resilience and flexibility INTEGRATED CONNECTIVITY: Planning the South East
Green Corridors
Growth Corridors Gatwick 2025: the airport masterplan Gatwick 2025 – One simple airport gateway – a new transport interchange and passenger services hub
New station – Direct trains to the City and London Victoria 175 stations directly accessible from Gatwick Height versus density: Typologies for work, live, play
Streets of the future: Autonomous Vehicles
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