Hallsville Quarter

Haworth Tompkins are working with developer Bouygues Development and masterplanners AECOM Design + Planning to design the first phase of a major new regeneration project in Canning Town. The first phase comprises a 7,500 sqm foodstore at ground level with a basement car park. Above the foodstore, 179 new homes will be created around the perimeter of a large, shared, landscaped garden. A mix of unit sizes, types and tenures will be provided including two and four storey houses and wheelchair accessible flats. The scheme also includes a new Energy Centre, which will provide heating and hot water for the whole of the masterplan area.

 

Contract Details

Hallsville Quarter Phase 1

Address: Sites 7 and 1c, Canning Town, London
Completion Date: 2014
Client: Bouygues Development
Affordable Housing Partner: One Housing Group
Foodstore Tenant: Morrisons
Masterplanners: AECOM Design + Planning
Landscape Architects: Landscape Projects

 

 

The North Wall Arts Centre is built in the grounds of St Edward's School, shared in use by the school and as a public arts centre. It houses a flexible 300-seat theatre, a rehearsal space, dance studio and an art gallery. The design unites an ancient stone boundary wall, a Grade 2 listed Victorian former swimming pool and a new building, to form a carefully scaled streetscape to the public side and a new courtyard to the school.

“A delightful transformation of a listed Victorian swimming pool into a vibrant school arts facility...A skilful and imaginative scheme, showing careful detailing and a high standard of design which should provide inspiration to both pupils and visitors. A welcome resource for both the city and the school. ”

Judges Citation, Civic Trust

The scheme has been envisaged as a linear series of connected 'barns' built against the weathered stone boundary wall. Vernacular forms, contemporary detailing and traditional but unfamiliar materials emphasise the building's role as a place for innovation and creativity within a sensitive historic environment.

The walls and roof of the building are clad in unseasoned English oak shakes (hand-split shingles) and thin vertical slats, designed to bend and twist into organic, patinated surfaces that will vary in colour and texture according to orientation and exposure. The combination of vernacular forms, large frameless windows and a traditional primary cladding material is intended to appear both familiar and striking in the red brick and clay tile setting of the school and its immediate surroundings.

 

Contract Details

The North Wall Performing Arts Centre

Address: St Edward's School, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Completion Date: September 2006
Construction Cost: £2.66M
Client: St Edward's School
Contractor: Benfield & Loxley (Oxford) Ltd
Structural Engineer: Price and Myers LLP
Services Engineer: Max Fordham LLP
Quantity Surveyor: Bristow Johnson & Partners
Theatre Consultant: Charcoalblue
Acoustic Engineer: Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design
CDM Coordinator: PFB Construction Management Services
Access Consultant: Tom Lister Associates

Awards

Civic Trust Award
RIBA Award (South Region)
RIBA National Award
RIBA South Conservation Commendation
RIBA South Conservation Award