Regeneration & Conservation
Inspiration
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A new city area is developed along the river Elbe, brining together workplace and residential uses, culture and leisure, tourism and retail facilities.
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The masterplan's concept was the urban horizontal and vertical mix of uses with a framework of a variety of city quarters, serving as a good departure for old port sites.
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Neighbourhood focusing on living and leisure with several thousand job opportunities.
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A new city area is developed along the river Elbe, brining together workplace and residential uses, culture and leisure, tourism and retail facilities.
HafenCity in Hamburg is Europe’s largest inner - city development project that was started in 1997, due for completion by 2025-2030. It is an area of 157 hectares. This lively new urban space is accommodating a mix of office and residential uses, retail as well as cultural and leisure facilities.
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New, urban residential location for interaction with water will make it an ideal place for leisure and sport activities - brining a new identity to the area.
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This project has an aim to preserve the harbour structure and to create a blue densely built waterfront.
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Proposals were to regenerate and renew the historic part of Fleetwood's history.
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This mixed-use site includes a hotel, restaurant, botanical-themes visitor attraction, exhibition hall, retail, leisure and residential property
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The historical coastlines and the post-industrial docklands will have a positive effect on Fleetwood Quays development.
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Proposals were to regenerate and renew the historic part of Fleetwood's history.
The Fleetwood Quays, UK is a development covering around 50 hectares that was started in 2016. This dock development will create a new, all year round visitor destination to revitalise an existing waterside property.
It is accommodating a new space focused on leisure, retail, housing and tourist attraction facilities, therefore, renewing a historic part of Fleetwood's fishing industry.​
This project has an aim to create a sustainable and distinctive seafront with a mix of facilities, good connectivity and quality of life with enhanced built developments.
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Pancras Square is the new tranquil centre piece to the commercial heart of King's Cross, UK. The square represents one of the most exciting and significant development and regeneration opportunities within the UK, where over 40% of the land area has been allocated as public open space.
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As a centre piece to the square, a tiered water features gently cascades downhill providing sound and movement. A variety of tree species introduce scale and filter views that, combined with hedges, planting and lawn area, provide an attractive green environment. Seating has been located to edges of the water feature and lawn areas, allowing plenty of places to relax and spaces for cafe and restaurant outdoor seating.
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This project has an aim to preserve the harbour structure and to create a blue densely built waterfront.
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Royal Docklands will have a good transport infrastructure, including good quality of new and existing roads, technical concepts will be applied to prevent traffic noise near the residential housing
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Semi-closed residential housing will form inner courtyards
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High standards of sustainability - for example, the use of renewable energy sources
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More generous landscaping of open spaces - increased areas for people to use for socialising and outdoor activities
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Integrating the whole site together - making the area more interconnected with the centre, for example, the community floating performance activity area