LANDSCAPE, MASTERPLANNING & URBAN DESIGN WORKBOOK

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1 LANDSCAPE, MASTERPLANNING & URBAN DESIGN WORKBOOK

2 CONTENTS Creating a Sense of Place Projects Goldsmiths College Masterplan Birley Fields Masterplan Heal s University of Manchester Masterplan Leeds Student Village Sloane Street Heritage Quarter Houses Royal BC Museum East Croydon Interchange Euston Circus Masterplan Bolshevik Factory Mosfilm Sugar Factory Masterplan Stanislavsky Factory British Embassy Algiers Tate Millbank Masterplan Thomas Tallis School George Square Wood Wharf King s Cross Station Northern Line Extension Crossrail Bond Street Station Dalston Junction Interchange Calsberg Tetley, Thames Wharf Bogota Masterplan Dongguan Botanical Masterplan The Cornhill Fresh Kills Masterplan Max Mara Headquarters Timeline End Matter

3 2 Landscape CREATING A SENSE OF PLACE Bolshevik Factory, Moscow, Russia Urban design and landscape design are nominally different disciplines. But, in essence, they are closely linked: they make fresh sense, at various scales, of our streetscapes, and the very ground under our feet. At its best, landscape design produces a heightened sense of the human and material spirit of place, whether it takes the form of a specific landmark-space, or as a series of connective or layered spaces. The most notable recent example of a fusion of these qualities can be seen in JMP sour scheme for the Botanical Garden in Dongguan, China. Urban design gives logical form to the re-ordering of urban areas, sites, of collections of buildings. Ideally, this should lead to the finer details of spatial, civil, landscape, or infrastructural innovations that may not have been evident at the beginning of the design process. This fusion of the logical and the stimulating informs all the practice s urban design and public realm projects, whether they re for iconic sites such as Sloane Street in London, or to establish greater connectivity and development potential in complex urban situations, such as those around the various sites of the Goldsmiths College campus. Urban design is about more than physical change sometimes strikingly so. For example, the practice s masterplan and urban design vision for the CAN district of Bogotá, the capital of Columbia, proposed the creation of a Garden City within the city, and though the elements and layout are generally familiar, its proposals were directed towards a bold social purpose: to

4 3 Landscape Stanislavsky Factory, Moscow, Russia create a sizeable, properly connected part of the city that feels owned by those who live and work there, regardless of their demographic status. John McAslan + Partners urban design and landscape studio has designed and delivered schemes in many different ways in a wide range of contexts. They have included historically important civic spaces and commercial hot-spots; massive city regeneration zones; corporate headquarters such as the Max Mara campus in Reggio Emilia; schools and universities; settings for infrastructure hubs; and in ambitious proposals such as the vast Fresh Kills landfill site on Staten Island. Recent projects with significant landscape design elements include historically sensitive courtyard treatments at the Heritage Houses site in Doha, the parkland elements of the practice s redevelopment of the 7ha Sugar Factory site in Moscow, and the riverside landscape design for JMP s Carlsberg Tetley Wharf mixed-use development in London. George Square, Glasgow Landscape design often plays a key role in our urban design approach. The fundamental challenge inevitably lies in deciding how to apply contemporary landscape designs to evolving contexts that may be historic, or dominated by cultural imperatives, or are within urban or site areas that are barely coherent. The practice searches for design qualities that will create meaningful individual landscapes, or a spatial and physical narrative with specific atmospheres, physical characteristics and purposes that will also be durable and highly functional. The practice has applied these design skills at every scale from the simple use of excess building materials to create play-mounds at the Lavender Sure Start Nursery School in Merton, South London, to our international competition-winning designs for the transformation of London s Oxford Street, and Glasgow s George Square, one of a handful of Britain s greatest urban tableaux. Ambitious landscape design can be crucial in redefining the settings of important buildings. For example, the practice s design of the British Embassy in Algiers was conceived as part of the practice s wider landscape design for the Embassy site as a whole; the landscape dovetailed with the radiused plan of the building, and changes in levels across the site. The Embassy s architecture and its landscape form a single coherent composition. In Moscow, the practice s landscape design for the regenerated Stanislavsky Factory site dealt with a totally different situation: a large asymmetrical site on which ex-industrial buildings were randomly positioned. The landscape scheme, publicly praised by the Mayor of Moscow, was the first of its kind in the city. A common thread linking all the projects in this book is the belief that good design can deliver distinctive qualities of place and community energy to the most challenging of urban settings. Jay Merrick Hanover Square urban integration study Heals, London

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7 new connection Laurie Grove 6 Landscape GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE MASTERPLAN LEWISHAM, LONDON John McAslan + Partners was appointed to prepare a masterplan for Goldsmiths College from This commission involves a comprehensive space management plan of all the buildings and departments within the campus aiming to improve space utilisation and efficiency. The masterplan also establishes a new public realm vision for the campus creating new development sites and linking the College into the wider regenerative initiatives of Lewisham and New Cross Gate. The commission also creates a sustainable masterplan with a coherent approach to the use management and development of the college estate over the next decade. New Cross Road New Cross Road Lewisham Way garden civic space civic space Dixon Rd student gardens garden the square student gardens St Jame s new entrance connection St Donatt s Road stepped garden Above: site masterplan; right: view of proposed masterplan

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9 8 Landscape BIRLEY FIELDS MASTERPLAN MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY The practice was commissioned to produce a strategic development framework for the 12 acre Birley Fields campus in Hulme, a mixed-use proposal regenerating an existing brown field site. The development unites some 6,000 students training to become teachers, nurses, social workers and other health care professionals within a single site. The proposals for Birley Fields, seek to create the greenest university campus in the UK, with environmental sustainability integral to all design. Above and right: masterplan model and masterplan in context

10 9 Landscape HEAL S CAMDEN, LONDON John McAslan + Partners has completed the first phase of the redevelopment of the Grade II * listed Heal s Building on Tottenham Court Road, a project commissioned by Threadneedle Property Investors and The Bedford Estates. The scheme redevelops former factory buildings and showrooms, improving connectivity and access. Two dramatic 4-storey atria spaces are linked by an internal street, terminating in a newly landscaped courtyard garden. The 40,000 sqft of office space has a BREEAM Very Good rating. Right; view of internal walkway; below: courtyard view.

11 10 Landscape UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER PUBLIC REALM MASTERPLAN MANCHESTER This complex, award-winning example of urban design and design co-ordination has provided the University of Manchester with a revitalised campus, and one which links physically, socially and visually with the city of Manchester. The design includes significant new open spaces to extend the public realm into the site, supported by new cycle and pedestrian routes across the campus. At the heart of the design brief was the university s desire to reduce the sense of divide between town and gown in this part of the city, and foster a more democratically inclusive image of higher education. Right: site plan; opposite and below: informal landscape areas

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14 13 Landscape LEEDS STUDENT VILLAGE LEEDS The practice together with a team of leading consultants, are commissioned by Downing to undertake design work for a masterplan, landscape design, refurbishment works and a new 21-storey student accommodation tower as part of their proposed Student Village. The landscape is crucial in knitting the disparate buildings and architecture into an integrated whole. With a 6m change in level from one end of the site to the other, the design needed to overcome numerous topographic challenges, but makes the most of the opportunities afforded through the creation of terraces and seat walls set into the slope. The predominantly green campus space unfolds around a central square: a new gathering space at the heart of the student community. Opposite: deep flower borders and planting soften and enliven the many public routes across the campus; above: site plan; right: visualisation of phase 1 scheme

15 14 Landscape SLOANE STREET KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, LONDON John McAslan + Partners has been appointed by Cadogan Estates to develop a new urban design vision for the world famous Sloane Street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. Although home to some of the most exclusive fashion houses in the world, the character and quality of the street could be considerably enhanced. Our work has investigated the wider network of streets, through evidence based analysis, and established strategies for urban renewal, enhanced connectivity, traffic management and public realm enhancements. Top: shopping map of central London, showing nodes of activity, with Sloane Street; right: axonometric diagram showing how the scheme proposes to unlock further potential on this high profile street. The study assesses existing land use, street furniture, accessibility, utilities, movement patterns and landscape in order to understand how these physical and functional conditions affect the street s economic, social and cultural character; opposite bottom right: views of Sloane Street s prestigious retail amenities

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18 17 Landscape HERITAGE QUARTER COURTYARDS DOHA, QATAR This collection of historically important houses in Doha are being refurbished and re-instated as museum buildings as part of the ambitious Msheireb Downtown Doha project. The public realm aspect of the design unifies the site into a single, distinctly legible environment. The museum s landscapes are extraordinarily diverse in their programme and function. The Museum of Slavery Courtyard at the Al Jelmood House is an evocative and metaphoric landscape ensemble that has real meaning and resonance. Company House is at the centre of the Cultural Quarter and the external courtyard has been designed to accommodate large scale events and exhibitions. Right: site plan; below: aerial view of the Heritage Quarter at night; opposite: View of Bayt Jelmood Courtyard.

19 18 Landscape Top: aerial view of Bayt Jelmood Courtyard; above left: view of courtyard at night; above right: aerial photograph of Doha, dating from the early 1950 s; opposite top: View of Bayt Mohammed Bin Jassim courtyard; opposite below: view of typical courtyard.

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21 20 Landscape ROYAL BC MUSEUM VICTORIA, CANADA In 2013 John McAslan + Partners completed the public realm and landscape masterplan for the Royal British Columbia Museum in British Columbia, Canada as part of their 2017 vision for the Museum. JMP s role has been to re-invigorate the internal and neglected external spaces of a currently fragmented site, and enhance the presentation of the Museum to the wider urban context. The landscape approach has been to piece together a hitherto disparate series of spaces into a clearly legible, purposeful and connected museum campus. The design will help attract new visitors to the site and expand the Museum s wider recreational appeal, as well as enhanced external display spaces. Above: aerial view of proposed Museum grounds; opposite and overleaf: the proposed external Museum experience

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25 24 Landscape EAST CROYDON INTERCHANGE CROYDON, GREATER LONDON Our masterplan for East Croydon Interchange will transform Croydon s primary arrival point,- East Croydon Station and its surrounding transport modes - tram stops, bus interchange and taxi ranks. The scheme specifically addresses the pedestrian experience, particularly the link between the ECI area westwards towards Croydon s town centre. The masterplan unifies and rationalises these different transport modes and enhances public realm by creating new plazas - with improved lighting, planting and street furniture. The masterplan will assist orientation and create a sense of civic pride in what has been hitherto a confusing and challenging urban environment. Top right: site plan; right: photograph of the site prior to redevelopment; below: section through enhanced intermodal interchange; opposite: visualisation showing detail of proposed public realm treatment

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27 26 Landscape EUSTON CIRCUS MASTERPLAN CAMDEN, LONDON John McAslan + Partners and Hyder Consulting were appointed by Transport for London to develop Urban Design and Landscape Proposals for this important site, located on the Euston Road in Central London. The scheme is transforming the site from a trafficdominated road junction into an attractive and pedestrian-friendly public space. At the heart of the scheme is an organising frame giving structure to the space and creating a legible pedestrian environment. Overlaid on and adjacent to the frame is a suite of high quality paving materials, furniture and tree planting. John McAslan + partners are liaising and consulting closely with the TFL, London Borough of Camden and the Mayors Design Advisory Panel. Above right: site plan; below: view of new hard surfacing and benches

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29 28 Landscape BOLSHEVIK FACTORY MOSCOW The Bolshevik Factory comprises 17 buildings of varying ages and styles, including listed buildings dating from 1884 which were the first buildings in Moscow to boast electric light. The 50,000 sqm redevelopment will feature covered streets and office space with exceptional views over Moscow city and beyond. The scheme is a model of adaptive re-use, transforming an important example of the city s great industrial heritage into a high quality environment for contemporary commercial use. Opposite: glazed internal streets connect the blocks of office accommodation; above right: site plan; below: the project features generous landscaped gardens, unusual in Moscow commercial developments

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31 30 Landscape MOSFILM MOSCOW John McAslan + Partners has won an international competition to design a world-class mixed-use scheme on the site of the celebrated Mosfilm studios, located in one of Moscow s most prestigious residential areas. Mosfilm produced widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Eisenstein to Tarkovsky. The practice is appointed as lead architect, masterplanner and landscape architect and the scheme will include a significant commercial element as well as a new concert hall. Opposite: view of proposed redevelopment; below: site plan; overleaf: night view showing main entrance to the site

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37 36 Landscape SUGAR FACTORY MASTERPLAN MOSCOW, RUSSIA This significant residential development is located centrally within Moscow City centre in the area of Big City on Mantulinskaya Street. The accessible city centre location together with waterside location and existing parkland amenity, provides a unique opportunity to provide a sustainable community of upwards of 1000 residential units. Covering an area of more than 7 hectares and over one quarter of a mile in length from east to west, the project was conceived within the challenging constraints imposed by the future adjacent infrastructure initiatives planned by the City Authorities and strict health and safety and planning rules relating to the adjacent hospital site. John McAslan and Partners were responsible for the masterplanning of both architecture and landscape.

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42 41 Landscape STANISLAVSKY FACTORY MOSCOW, RUSSIA The award-winning transformation of the historically important Stanislavsky Factory site in Moscow, originally developed in the 19th century by one of Russia s leading industrialists and cultural patrons, the Stanislavsky family, has sensitively linked refurbished historic elements and new interventions. This mixed-use business and cultural scheme consists of thirteen buildings, including offices, luxury apartments, a hotel, restaurant, and theatre. The landscape design, a new approach in urban Moscow, created a series of linked public and semi-private open spaces of considerable variety, despite considerable challenges in terms of public access, building orientation, and major level changes of up to 4m across the site. Opposite and below: planting is arranged in a clearly defined arrangement of raised planters; right: site plan; below right: timber decking creates a contemporary new public space, a vibrant focal point within the scheme, enlivened by the activities generated by the theatre

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44 43 Landscape Left, top and above: the landscape scheme creates a sequence of linked, publicly accessible green oases, a unique amenity in Moscow

45 44 Landscape BRITISH EMBASSY ALGIERS ALGERIA The design of the British Embassy in Algiers reflects the cultures of both Britain and Algeria. The 1,770sqm three-level building is set out on the axis of the retained neo-moorish Ambassador s Residence dating from The design, preserving views out over the Bay of Algiers, was conceived as a series of curved, parallel walls carving gracefully through the sloping landscape to enclose the primary circulation space and office accommodation. The circular geometry of the new landscape provides a dramatic setting for both new and old elements.

46 45 Landscape Opposite top: site plan; opposite below, above, right and overleaf: the design of the new structure and the landscape scheme was conceived as a coherent whole, the curving geometry creating clearly defined areas of varied and distinctive planting

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49 48 Landscape TATE MILLBANK MASTERPLAN WESTMINSTER, LONDON John McAslan + Partners investigation of urban initiatives to enhance the identity of the Millbank Neighbourhood and Tate Britain reinforces the physical, social, cultural, and economic connectivity to surrounding districts and the River Thames. Tate Britain, situated between Westminster, Vauxhall, Chelsea, Victoria and Pimlico, is part of a wider cultural and heritage corridor linking to Westminster and Parliament, and on to the National Gallery and the West End. The Millbank Urban Strategy reinforces Tate Britain s role as an important cultural destination whilst improving the character and setting of the local neighbourhood, as well as reconnecting Millbank with the River, resolving the barrier caused by the road and the poor quality of riverside amenities. Below, right and opposite below: proposed connections to strengthen the relationship between Tate Britain and its urban context

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52 51 Landscape THOMAS TALLIS SCHOOL GREENWICH, LONDON The landscape design comprises a rich mix of urban style courtyard spaces, informal landscape areas and ecological/ flood mitigation areas. At the heart of the school are predominantly hard landscape spaces providing flexible areas for outdoor teaching, gatherings and events, and which are also available for use by the surrounding community. Surrounding the main teaching and administrative blocks is a softer, picturesque landscape providing areas for informal seating, play, recreation and sports. Susceptible to flooding, the scheme also includes flood mitigation techniques that have also been used to increase biodiversity. Opposite and below: the design of the school and its extensive landscape setting creates a cohesive environment; above: site diagram

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54 53 Landscape GEORGE SQUARE GLASGOW George Square is one of Britain s handful of great city-centre civic spaces. Its architectural and spatial set-piece qualities date back to the 1780 s. The practice s competition-winning design proposal heightens the synergies between the architectural and spatial qualities of the square. The design accentuates its pivotal position in the city as a unique breathing space, at precisely the point where the original Georgian central grid meets its Victorian extension. Because of the increasing social and commercial energy around George Square, our scheme avoided radical interventions, but ensured that this great space would have a re-energised civility for decades to come. Opposite: view of the Square as proposed by the new design; top: plan identifying the Square s relationship with other key city hubs; right: the competition-winning masterplan, creating a greater formal presence, a more robust geometry and greater flexibility of potential use

55 54 Landscape Top and above: the Square has always been a focus of civic life in Glasgow; bottom and right: the scheme proposed greater flexibility of uses, whilst reaffirming the Square s important civic presence and historic identity

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58 57 Landscape WOOD WHARF CANARY WHARF, LONDON John McAslan + Partners was selected to complete a masterplan for the next phase of Canary Wharf (regarded as the most successful development of its kind in Europe, with a working population of 200,000). The Canary Wharf Group was looking to develop the site immediately to the East around the existing Grade I listed West India Docks. Our designs provided 8,000 new homes, a school, library and commercial space in a range of buildings located around the dock edge. Within the development, a new Ramblas style road would connect West to East, comprising parkland, retail pop-ups and pedestrian areas. Opposite: a restrained palette of high quality materials defines key areas of public realm; below: masterplan; above right: 3D site plan highlighting the graceful linear park running across the site

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60 59 Landscape KING S CROSS STATION CAMDEN, LONDON Widely praised for its design and refurbishment of the Grade I listed Station, the practice also undertook much of the urban realm and landscape work including the St. Pancras Plaza entrance to the north, surrounding streetscape and the Western Concourse and the Station platforms. Our team also acted as advisors for the design of the recently completed square to the south of the Station entrance. The carefully choreographed ensemble of landscape, street furniture, wayfinding and architecture is one of the great successes of the station refurbishment. Opposite and right: the practice s role as lead architect ensured that all aspects of this highly complex scheme were coherent, including key areas of public realm, both internal and external; below: masterplan

61 60 Landscape NORTHERN LINE EXTENSION SOUTHWARK, LAMBETH & WANDSWORTH, LONDON The practice is at the heart of the 1billion infrastructure investment project to regenerate Nine Elms, creating 25,000 new jobs and 16,000 new homes. JMP is developing the above-ground elements of two new stations and their urban context. These schemes include a significant overstation development at Nine Elms. The practice is working alongside Halcrow, who are leading a technical team designing the subsurface infrastructure, and design work has been progressed on the layout of the stations and shafts. Above: view of new pedestrianised street at Nine Elms; right: two new stations are being created at Nine Elms and Battersea. Kennington Station is being upgraded and two new ventilation shafts are being provided at Kennington Park and Kennington Green

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63 62 Landscape CROSSRAIL BOND STREET WESTMINSTER, LONDON The practice is delivering Crossrail s Bond Street station. Consisting of two distinct station elements at Davies Street and Hanover Square, the scheme forms part of Europe s largest single construction project. The new Bond Street Station consists of two deep east-west platforms, emerging at street level via two new ticket halls south of Oxford Street. Connecting to the existing London Underground station, the new interchange will serve 230,000 people daily when complete in The practice is also undertaking an urban integration and landscaping study in collaboration with the City of Westminster, Grosvenor and Great Portland Estates, to embed the station in its immediate and wider context. Below: underground tunnel construction; Right: urban integration study.

64 63 Landscape OXFORD ROAD CORRIDOR MANCHESTER This ambitious masterplan for a 215 ha tranche of Manchester realigned a number of smaller local regeneration initiatives to provide the basis for a unified urban development strategy based on spatial and economic impact analyses. A new creative media zone, housing, and community business development will activate threshold regeneration on the eastern edge of the ORC. Oxford Road would be revitalised, and a new science park created, helping to reinforce Manchester s position as the Knowledge Capital of the North. Above: masterplan; above right: regenerative proposal to create a unified public realm and development strategy

65 64 Landscape DALSTON JUNCTION HACKNEY, LONDON The practice designed this major residential development in Dalston, which includes a new station and a public square. The scheme comprises 309 apartments and forms a key component of the East London Line extension linking Hackney to the North with Croydon to the South. The scheme has become the pivot-point of a part of London that, until a few years ago, had no widely-known social or cultural cachet. The situation is very different today, and this scheme has played a central role in raising the profile of Dalston as one of London s most fashionable cultural hot-spots. Right: view of completed scheme; opposite below: site plan; opposite: view of completed development and public realm

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67 66 Landscape CARLSBERG TETLEY WHARF NEWHAM, LONDON John McAslan and Partners were commissioned to develop a mixed use masterplan for a high profile riverside location opposite the Millennium Dome known as Thames Wharf, in the London Borough of Newham. The design team developed the scheme within the context of significant site constraints, including the flight path requirements of the nearby City Airport, Flood mitigation measures and the existing DLR and Silvertown Way that run adjacent to and through the site. Responsible for both the architectural and landscape masterplans, JMP s proposals eschew the typical windswept docklands typologies in favour of a traditional Thameside village narrative; with buildings and neighborhoods centred around streets, squares and commons. At the same time the site s industrial heritage and stunning waterside location is celebrated. Opposite: site location; below: visualisation of site.

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69 68 Landscape BOGOTÁ MASTERPLAN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA Our masterplan vision for the 85 hectare CAN site proposes an urban tableau anchored to a grand, car-free 2km promenade an extraordinary public amenity which will link the area between the National University and Simon Bolivar Park. The scheme is founded on the idea of creating a 21st-century Garden City within Bogotá, where nature and landscape can encourage the natural mixing of different people and different purposes. The central parkland knits CAN s urban plan together a large and democratic green space designed to be shared equally by government administrators, students, business people, householders, shoppers and performers.

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71 70 Landscape BOTANICAL GARDENS DONGGUAN, CHINA The indoor and external spaces of this spectacular botanical garden in Dongguan, China, will, when completed, provide a landscape that facilitates both botanical research and offers an exhilarating experience for visitors - interpreting the natural processes and splendour of a tropical rain forest. The practice worked alongside botanical experts in China to achieve educational and botanical objectives in an innovatively instructive way. Rope bridges, rock faces, intimate contact with waterfalls and plants, were key requirements of the brief, which was intent on replicating the physical and environmental drama of rain forests. Opposite top: part section through the scheme; opposite bottom and overleaf: visualisations showing the proposed internal landscape; below: diagram showing proposed landscape composition

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75 74 Landscape THE CORNHILL IPSWICH Centred on Ipswich s main square, the practice s proposals for this two-stage competition included a thorough analysis of the urban and retail context, in order to fully address the challenges Ipswich faces as a fading retail centre. Our scheme examined the potential to re-inforce the historic link between The Cornhill and the thriving waterfront, and an ambitious strategy aimed at encouraging a self sustaining range of uses around the perimeter of the Square, that would once again place The Cornhill at the heart of civic life in Ipswich. Right: site diagram; opposite: visualisations of The Cornhill viewed in varying weather conditions

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77 76 Landscape FRESH KILLS MASTERPLAN STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Following an open international competition, the practice was selected as one of three finalists for the Fresh Kills Landfill to Landscape competition. The jury commended our scheme as compelling, well researched and comprehensive. Covering over 2,000 acres on the west coast of the Island, the site is unique, containing the largest capped landfill in the world together with a significant area of intact tidal wildlife habitat. As the largest ongoing landscape project in the region, Fresh Kills is intended to be a key open amenity for the Island, the City and the region. Right: visualisation showing the rich potential of the vast site for a wide range of leisure and sporting activities; below: site plan; opposite below: view of the existing site

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80 79 Landscape MAX MARA HEADQUARTERS REGGIO EMILIA, ITALY The practice won an invited international competition in 1996 to design this 45,000sqm headquarters complex for Max Mara, Italy s leading fashion house. Completed in phases by 2004, this low energy-use development on a 30ha rural site south of Milan relates to its historic landscape setting in a distinctive and architecturally timeless way. The principal buildings are individually expressed using a distinctive architectural vocabulary of concrete, steel, brick and glass. The landscape design is deliberately formal, with strong linear arangements, creating an impressive setting for the new complex. Opposite and this page: the scheme creates a formalised, contemporary interpretation of the classic Italian landscape

81 80 Landscape PRE Fresh Kills Masterplan (2002) Staten Island, New York Goldsmiths College Masterplan London University of Manchester Manchester Thomas Tallis School London George Square Glasgow Max Mara Headquarters (2004) Reggio Emilia, Italy Oxford Road Corridor Manchester British Embassy Algiers Algeria Leeds Student Village Leeds Royal BC Museum Victoria, Canada University of Lancaster (2006) Lancaster Stanislavsky Factory Moscow, Russia Wood Wharf Canary Wharf, London Tate Millbank London The Cornhill Ipswich Birley Fields Masterplan Manchester Metropolitan University King s Cross Station London

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83 END MATTER Fresh Kills Masterplan Client City of New York, Department of Planning Dates 2002 Area 1,100 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Arup Max Mara Headquarters Client Max Mara Fashion Group Dates Area 30 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Intertecno SpA Milan, Arcdesign Peter Walker & Partners Ambiente Europa,Unieco S.c.r.l Frabboni S.p.A University of Lancaster Masterplan Client Lancaster University Dates 2006 ongoing Area 7.4 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Theobald & Gardner Goldsmiths Masterplan Client Goldsmiths College, London Dates Area 3.5 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Arup, Gardiner & Theobald University of Manchester Masterplan Client University of Manchester Dates Area 10 ha Team John McAslan + Partners AA Projects, Bucknall Austin RW Gregory, Gifford and Partners PDA Partnership British Embassy Algiers Client British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Dates Area 4.5 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Arup, MACE Stanislavsky Factory Client Horus Capital Dates Area 6 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Tate Millbank Masterplan Client Tate Britain Dates 2009 Area 2 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Drivers Jonas Thomas Tallis School Client Babcock International Group Plc & Greenwich Council Dates Area 2 ha Team John McAslan + Partners NSD, Davis Langdon BDP, Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd Leeds Student Village Client Downing Dates Area 4.4 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Alan Johnson Partnership Omega Fire George Square Client Glasgow City Council Dates 2012 Area 5 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Arup Royal BC Museum Client Royal British Columbia Museum Dates 2012 Area 1.8 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Arup Wood Wharf Masterplan Client Canary Wharf Group Dates 2012 Area 4.7 ha Team John McAslan + Partners King s Cross Station Client Network Rail Dates Area 1.7 ha Team John McAslan + Partners David Bonnett Associates Bogotá Masterplan Client Empresa de Renovacion Urbana Virgilio Barco Dates 2013 Area 85 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Dongguan Botanical Gardens Client Vanke Dates 2013 Area 0.6 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Buro Happold East Croydon Masterplan Client London Borough of Croydon Dates 2013 Area 2 ha Team John McAslan + Partners WSP The Cornhill Client Ipswich Borough Council Dates 2013 Area 0.25 ha Team John McAslan + Partners GIA Equation, Buro Happold Appleyard & Trew LLP, DTZ The Fountain Workshop Limited Heritage Quarter Courtyards and Public Realm Client Msheireb Properties Dates Area 2.6 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Buro Happold, Davis Langdon, Arab Engineering, Bureau, TIME Qatar Euston Circus Masterplan Client Transport for London Dates Area 1 ha Team John McAslan + Partners Hyder Consulting Sloane Street Client Cadogan Estates Dates 2013 ongoing Area 5 ha Team John McAslan + Partners WSP, Space Syntax Bond Street Urban Integration Study Client Crossrail Ltd Dates Area 3 ha Team John McAslan + Partners WSP, Balfour Beatty Management Corderoy Oxford Road Corridor Client Manchester City Council Dates Area 214 HA Team John McAslan + Partners, Tribal HCH, Faber & Maunsell Birley Fields Masterplan Client Manchester Metropolitan University Dates Area 45,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners, Arup, Gardiner & Theobald, Colin Buchanan and Partners, Drivers Jonas Heal s Client Threadneedle Property Investments Ltd and The Bedford Estates Dates Area 5,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Tuffin Ferraby Taylor LLP Cundall, McLaren Montagu Evans LLP Bolshevik Factory

84 83 Landscape Client 01 Properties / Tactics Group Dates Area 50,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Miwel Buro Happold Spectrum AB Development GIA Equation Mosfilm Client Mosfilm Dates onwards Area - Team John McAslan + Partners Sugar Factory Client Sugar Factory Dates Area 41,000 sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Dalston Junction Interchange Client Barratt East London Transport for London Development Agency and London Borough of Hackney Dates Area 33,000 Sqm Team John McAslan + Partners Goddard Manton ATK II Whitecode Design Associates Ltd Barratt Homes Crossrail Bond Street Client Crossrail Ltd Dates Area 30,000 Sqm Team John McAslan + Partners WSP Balfour Beatty Management Corderoy Northern Line Extension Client Transport for London Dates 2012 ongoing Area 5km long corridor Team John McAslan + Partners Halcrow StudioDare Buro Happold Corderoy Credits Essay Design Jay Merrick, architecture critic Lisa Sjukur, April

85 `We create architecture which improves people s lives. We aim for an architecture which is rational and poetic, robust and delightful; we tread carefully and build with conviction; we tackle problems head on and think laterally; we deconstruct the brief and let a design emerge from a close examination of the pieces; we don t necessarily take no for an answer; we believe the power of architecture extends much further than the dimensions of individual buildings; we believe architecture is about making life better. We believe that buildings should be underpinned by a powerful idea; that the idea should be an intelligent and logical response to functionality and a sense of place; and the power of that idea should be embedded in the built form. That way, clients get the buildings they need and society gets the architecture it deserves. We believe that the city is one of humanity s most impressive and precious cultural achievements. We also believe that cities are more than a collection of buildings; cities are about connections, transport, communications, public spaces and joy. We believe in locating our buildings firmly into their contexts - not as slavish repetition but as a considered response to site, materiality, amenity, scale and culture. We don t believe in the value of a house style; if we have a house style it is one of process, not of form. We are functionalists. We believe a good building is an expression of a clear and rational diagram. We believe in the value of research. We believe in contemporary design for a changing world. John McAslan + Partners William Road London NW1 3ER T +44 (0) mailbox@mcaslan.co.uk 13 Great King Street Edinburgh EH3 6QW T +44 (0) edinburgh@mcaslan.co.uk