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BDP designs and creates inspiring places for people. With international teams of architects, engineers, designers and urbanists we work from studios throughout the UK, and in Ireland, the Netherlands, the UAE, India and China on projects around the world. Founded in 1961, BDP is now one of the best known global interdisciplinary practices and has won over 900 awards for design quality. Our housing design teams deliver high quality and successful design solutions by taking a holistic view which is based upon: achieving the highest design quality site specific responses, producing contextual and memorable designs an intelligent and integrated approach to sustainability collaborative working, taking account of construction and financial considerations from the outset achieving the highest design quality a design process which places residents needs at its heart. 3
Abito Salford Quays & Greengate, Manchester Abito explores an innovative approach to the design of low cost private housing. Conceived from the inside out to exceptionally tight space standards, each apartment contains a centrally located services pod and has a prefabricated hook-on balcony. High ceilings increase the sense of space and as everything is recessed or hidden there is ample space to sustain a modern urban lifestyle. 4
Abito refines a modular solution, precision engineered to give more for less. The design sets the apartments at the perimeter of the site around a protected courtyard in order to benefit from daylight and views. Not bigger. Just smarter. That s Abito. 5
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Armada Housing, s-hertogenbosch Netherlands Longhouses and Tallhouses are set along a watercourse, creating a striking centrepiece at the heart of a new urban quarter in one of the Netherlands most beautiful historic towns. The building forms are shaped around a microclimatic and social idea. The apartment buildings enclose garden spaces related to the water s edge, and form warm microclimates for the enjoyment of the residents. Stainless steel curved roofs face south to enhance solar warmth, accentuating each apartment s prospect of that big Dutch sky. Car parking is concealed below the longwater, with direct access to each apartment building. 7
Tollgate Gardens, London This flagship regeneration project successfully increases the density of a 1960s estate by reinstating street edges and creating a large communal garden within the heart of the site. Car parking sits under the garden to maximise open and play space for residents. The design creates a mixed community of 248 private and affordable homes with a variety of housing types. 8
Palace View, London Situated opposite Lambeth Palace overlooking the River Thames, 69 new homes are created in this outstanding location. Each apartment is shaped so that living space and balconies have multiple aspects and maximised views and daylight. The design celebrates its corner location with a sweeping curved elevation which wraps around a south facing courtyard at podium level. 9
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Parkway Newbury A new residential community has been created as part of this historic town centre redevelopment. A total of 184 residential units, apartments and houses, and community gardens form a private world above this bustling shopping centre. 11
Hampden Gurney Housing, London This scheme was described in the 2001 edition of London Residential Research as the most innovative development in central London and forms a new landmark that has revitalised this previously decaying end of Marylebone. A courtyard wrap of residential and school building recreates the city block in keeping with the urban fabric. 52 apartments in seven and five storey buildings are orientated to create a sun-filled courtyard garden, enjoyed from cantilevered balconies. The vertical school, with its playdecks and classrooms rising up to the tented rooftop, acts as a centrepiece to the residents garden. 12
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St Andrew s Park, London A 150,000 sq ft residential development on the former RAF Uxbridge site. 200 apartments ranging from studio, one bed and two bed typology are designed around the sloping site, with roof terracing enabling high level views overlooking the new public realm and parkland. 14
Goodricke College, University of York This simple, yet considerately designed student accommodation ranges from study bedrooms and studios to six room flats and eight room town houses. Skillfully manipulated in scale and massing it gives the scheme its distinctive undulating roofscape, enclosing a sequence of sunny courtyard spaces. The open nature of this edge of city site demanded a high quality approach to public realm including pedestrian and cycle linkages to the existing and new teaching areas. 15
Unite Angel Lane, London Situated in the newly regenerated area of east London, Angel Lane is within walking distance of one of Europe s largest shopping centres, Westfield Stratford. Housing 760 students in cluster flats the city block form of the building is open to the south enclosing a central green heart space. Common rooms, informal spaces and external terraces create social spaces for students. 16
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Hale Village Masterplan, London Hale Village is a major sustainable, mixed use regeneration masterplan for Lee Valley Estates on a 4.9ha site adjacent to Tottenham Hale Station in North London. The scheme includes 1,200 residential units, a 100 room hotel, 700 student accommodation rooms, offices, retail, a primary school, crèche and neighbourhood management office. There are significant areas of high quality greenspace and connections between the open spaces at the heart of the development and the Lee Valley Regional Park. 18
Bedford Square, London The refurbishment and fitout of a Grade I listed terrace, located in one of the best preserved Georgian squares in London, is a unique opportunity to return the building back to a single high quality family house after years of neglect, unsympathetic repairs and arbitrary adaptations. The project focuses on the sensitive repair of the historic fabric and the provision of modern accommodation for a large family and staff, including full mechanical ventilation and cooling, state of the art AV facilities, a new lift to make the house fully accessible and new bathrooms. 19
Witham Wharf, Lincoln This project took an unattractive 1970s precast concrete office building and reinvented it as 114 luxury apartments overlooking a marina, with new restaurants, cafés and shops at ground floor. 20 20
Buchanan Gardens, Glasgow Bespoke one, two and three bedroom single and duplex apartments designed and built to the very highest specification, offer contemporary living in the heart of Scotland s most vibrant city. A private sky garden creates a haven of peace and tranquillity, and many of the apartments have private outdoor spaces with terraces and balconies overlooking Glasgow s most stylish shopping destination. 21
Owens Park, Manchester This is a masterplan for a state-of the-art village to accommodate 3,200 students for the University of Manchester. Replacing outdated facilities, the accommodation is designed as clusters of town houses and apartments around a village green with a new student services centre, shops and a doctor s surgery. 22
Store Street, Manchester An iconic high quality residential addition to the Manchester skyline and new landmark close to the future HS2 terminal, the plan form of the building has been shaped by its context to maximise long distance views, address adjacent key heritage assets and minimise overlooking and daylight issues with the neighbouring village. 23
Backaplan, Gothenburg, Sweden A masterplan for a new district at the heart of Gothenburg s River City strategy for the growth of the city through the regeneration of former docklands. Three sustainable new neighbourhoods are set around a new cultural and commercial centre with a new tram and bus interchange, connected to the historic centre by a new bridge across the River Göta. 24
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Cornmill Gardens, Lewisham, London We have been working with the London Borough of Lewisham for many years creating new public spaces as part of its urban regeneration exercise. At Cornmill Gardens underused and unsafe spaces are transformed into award winning cohesive and legible places for the community and create important links from a new housing estate to the town centre. 26 26
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Mayfair and Belgravia masterplans, London We have been producing public realm schemes in Mayfair and Belgravia for Grosvenor since 2008. The vision is to set new standards for urban life in London and regain and enhance the human scale that lies at the heart of this central London estate. The schemes all improve the pedestrian experience and reduce vehicle domination. Public spaces are enhanced with high quality and robust materials which strengthen their distinct identity and create vibrant new places for people to live, work and visit. 28
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Whitechapel Masterplan, London A masterplan to reflect the collaborative vision of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and local stakeholders for the regeneration of the area. Focusing on six key areas, including the revitalisation of Whitechapel Road and the creation of a striking civic hub, the design will deliver over 3,500 new homes, generate 5,000 jobs and create seven new public squares and open spaces. 30
Eden Walk, Kingston upon Thames A major retail led mixed use regeneration scheme will enhance the historic market town with 385 new homes created in three separate buildings at the heart of the design, which vary in height in response to the adjacent heritage and local character. A landscaped necklace of public spaces from the River Thames to the north of the town integrates the new square and retail, aiming to elevate Kingston s historic beauty and create new legacies of civic pride and responsible growth. 31
Harrow View, London This mixed use masterplan delivers around 2,000 new homes, employment and community uses, a health centre, primary school and local retail, on the Kodak Factory site in Harrow. The masterplan principles were developed around a network of public spaces, and a series of neighbourhoods, which could be subdivided into a range of deliverable development plots, with inbuilt flexibility allowing the land owners and developer partners to respond to changing market demands. 32
Unite Stratford, London Forming a highly visible gateway close to the Olympic Park and international transport links, the 28 storey building is set around an internal courtyard, orientated to capture the best sun path and provide a tranquil retreat from the urban environment. 951 study bedrooms are designed for a wide range of university students with common rooms, a series of terraces and a roof top conservatory inviting social interaction for groups of all sizes. 33
PHOTOGRAPHERS Craig Auckland David Barbour Sanna Fisher-Payne Martine Hamilton Knight Benedict Luxmoore David Millington Shepherd Construction 34
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