PROPOSAL
GILLESPIES SUBMITS
GLASGOW HARBOUR
LIFESTYLE OUTLET
PROJECT FOR PLANNING
APPROVAL
PROPOSAL
PLANS REVEALED
FOR THREE ‘NEW
AND IMPROVED’
GREEN SPACES IN
LONDON’S WEST END
Camden council and landscape
architecture firm LDA Design
have revealed new designs for
three “new and improved” green
spaces in London’s West End.
The transformation of Princes
Circus, and Alfred Place and
Whitfield Gardens off
Tottenham Court Road form
part of the council’s £35m West
End Project.
The plans include a “dramatic
redesign” of Princes Circus on
Shaftesbury Avenue, with a new
pedestrianised area improving
access between Covent Garden
and the British Museum. A new
park will be created in Alfred
Place, turning a road into a
“green oasis” lined with wild
flowers, lawns, places for play
and a meandering path.
This proposal involves
removing traffic from sections
of Bloomsbury Street and
Shaftesbury Avenue to create a
larger, traffic-free public square,
with widened pavements and
safer cycle routes.
Gillespies has submitted its Glasgow
Harbour Lifestyle Outlet project
for Approval of Matters Specified in
Condition planning application.
Gillespies has been working for Peel
Lifestyle Outlets and a team, including
Glasgow-based ADF Architects, over
the last few months to prepare the
designs.
The proposals will create a 350,000
sq ft mixed-use development at
Glasgow Harbour, located close to
Glasgow’s West End and next to the
existing Riverside Museum.
The project aims to become a
waterfront destination on the River
Clyde and will include retail space,
restaurants and cafes, a waterfront
promenade, a new cinema, gym, family
leisure facilities, public square and
event space.
Gillespies has designed the
streetscapes, events spaces and
riverside routes, working closely with
the architects and client to create a
carefully considered interface between
the architecture and public realm.
Peel Lifestyle Outlets aim to
complete the project by 2021.
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Landscape Insight | September 2018
In numbers
350,000 sq ft
That’s how large
Gillespies’ Glasgow
Harbour Lifestyle
Outlet project will be.
COMPETITION
STEVEN HOLL
ARCHITECTS
WINS UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE DUBLIN’S
FUTURE CAMPUS
COMPETITION
University College Dublin
(UCD) and Malcolm Reading
Consultants (MRC) have named
Steven Holl Architects the winner
of the University College Dublin’s
Future Campus competition.
The New York and Beijing-
based studio’s (SHA) masterplan
won the competition with a
design that features “seven new
quadrangles designed around
historic features and woodland”.
The international jury judging
the event was “hugely impressed”
by SHA’s design proposal for a
‘Centre for Creative Design and
Entrance Precinct’ masterplan
vision, for a 24-hectare area of the
overall campus.
Holl’s design strategy focuses
on creating an “exhilarating
gateway presence” which
branches off to seven new areas
of open green space, designed
to enhance the campus’ historic
features and woodlands.