This centre is a signal of Wales’ intent to provide a modern emergency service to the community
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Strategic Coordination Centre
Austin-Smith:Lord’s first commission under the Government’s Buying Solutions Framework, the Strategic Coordination Centre for Dyfed Powys Police, was one of the most rapid projects the Practice has ever delivered. Appointment was at the end of October 2009 and a Planning Application was submitted in mid-December, with construction commencing in April 2010 and completion achieved in September 2011.
The Strategic Coordination Centre provides a modern emergency service and protects the public in civil emergencies or major incidents, in addition to providing an important base for Police and multi-agency training.
Political and economic pressures created tight project timescale but we rose to the challenge; meeting all timescale and budget targets whilst producing a high quality, critically acclaimed building.
From the outset the design team and client worked closely to develop the project brief and agree the concept design. It was important that the building reflected its status in its appearance, being of a suitable quality and aesthetic and incorporating a variety of sustainable features. The design was developed to create clarity and legibility of the overall concept in plan and 3 dimensional forms and is configured in an ‘H’ shape, with the two wings of accommodation slipped relative to one another. The building is set on a North-West/South-East main axis, with the principal elevations facing to open aspects, maximizing views out and daylight penetration in.
I was very satisfied with the level and quality of the Architectural Services provided by Austin-Smith:Lord throughout the whole of the project period
Perry Simpson – Capital Projects Manager, Dyfed Powys Police
CLIENT: DYFED POWYS POLICE
COMPLETION: 2011
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE
SECTOR: CIVIC
CONTRACTOR: WRW CONSTRUCTION
LANDSCAPE: MOTT MACDONALD
STRUCTURES: MOTT MACDONALD
SERVICES: MOTT MACDONALD
COST CONSULTANT: FRANKLIN + ANDREWS
AWARDS:
2012 LABC CYMRU AWARDS, BEST SUSTAINABLE BUILDING + BEST COMMERCIAL BUILDING OVER £5M
Concept design for a 14-story office tower over central Dublin’s busiest station
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Tara Street Station Air Rights Development
Tara Street is the busiest station in central Dublin serving over 25,000 passengers at peak times. In order to fund the redevelopment and expansion of the concourse and passenger facilities, Austin-Smith:Lord worked closely with Irish Rail Architects, Iarnròd Éireann, AECOM and commercial advisors
Lisneys to develop a concept design, by Adamsons Associates, for a 14 storey office tower over the station with views to the River Liffey. Our work was completed on time and within budget, enabling the client to secure planning permission.
COMPLETION: 2012
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE
SECTOR: TRANSPORT, COMMERCIAL
STRUCTURES: AECOM
SERVICES: AECOM
COST CONSULTANT: BRUCE SHAW PARTNERSHIP
The centralisation of bus facilities at these sites was a key element of both Oldham Council’s town centre regeneration strategy and Transport for Greater Manchester’s development strategy
The centralisation of bus facilities at Cheapside/West Street is a key element of Oldham Council’s evolving town centre strategy, and provides an important opportunity to further enhance the vitality and viability of the town centre. It serves to promote the increased use of public transport at a time when there is increasing concern about sustainable and environmentally damaging growth in car use.
The building integrates all the bus services in the town and represents the first of a new “21st Century” style of bus station in Greater Manchester.
The station provides a user friendly environment, with a high degree of shelter and comfort for passengers, taking into account personal safety, security and accessibility.
Further to designing the new Central Bus Station at Oldham Cheapside, Austin-Smith:Lord were commissioned to undertake design and contract administration services on the redevelopment of the adjacent passenger waiting environment at Oldham West Street.
The aim for the redevelopment of West Street is the siting and construction of a centralised waiting environment which affords bus users modern and extensive facilities including an attractive and user friendly waiting area; a high degree of shelter and comfort for passengers; personal safety, security and accessibility; and an overall environment that promotes a greater use of public transport.
The design responds to a number of challenges which includes a sloping site, adjacent city centre shopping centre and Manchester Chambers (listed). The intended area is split into two levels to minimise gradients , and fully glazed elevations are used to improve legibility and safety.
COMPLETION: 2008
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: TRANSPORT, URBAN REGENERATION
CONTRACTOR: THOMAS BARNS + SONS PLC / INTERSERVE
LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH: LORD
STRUCTURES: MARSTON + GRUNDY
SERVICES: ESE CONSULTING ENGINEERS
COST CONSULTANT: MIDDLETON + LEES
SPECIALIST CONSULTANTS (TRANSPORT): PBA
AWARDS:
2002 CIVIC TRUST AWARD
2001 RTPI REGIONAL BEST URBAN REGENERATION AWARD
Masterplan, public realm and office development
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- CLYDE GATE MASTERPLAN, URBAN REALM + OFFICE DEVELOPMENT
Austin-Smith:Lord were commissioned to prepare a masterplan for the low quality industrial area at Cable Depot Road, in conjunction with the proposed expansion of the NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital .
We were subsequently commissioned to provide Landscape Architecture Services to deliver enabling works to one of the key sites identified within Clydebank Re-built’s Business Plan and the Clyde Gate Masterplan.
Following the successful completion of the enabling works, we were commissioned to design the first 1,100 m² pavilion on the site. The pavilion consists of a children’s nursery at ground floor level and offices on the first and second floors.
CLIENT: CLYDEBANK RE-BUILT
VALUE: PUBLIC REALM £2.4m, OFFICE £1.7M
COMPLETION: 2010
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, MASTERPLANNING, LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: URBAN REGENERATION
CONTRACTOR: LAND ENGINEERING (SCOTLAND) LTD
LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH: LORD
STRUCTURES: WILL RUDD DAVIDSON
SERVICES: MOTT MACDONALD
COST CONSULTANT: THE NEILSON PARTNERSHIP
AWARDS: 2009 ROSES DESIGN AWARD
One of the largest urban regeneration projects to be built outside London in the last 20 years
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Piccadilly Place Masterplan + External Works
Piccadilly Place is one of the largest urban regeneration projects to be built outside London in the last 20 years. Austin-Smith:Lord has played a key role in delivering the scheme for Argent and The Carlyle Group by first developing the masterplan and then designing the largest office building on the site, 3 Piccadilly Place. The masterplan includes high quality public realm, a hotel, four office buildings, residential accommodation and retail spaces together with over four floors of underground parking. In the role of concept designers, Austin-Smith:Lord coordinated the work of six architects and artists within the overall scheme.
Designed in 2005, 3 Piccadilly Place was the first office building in the North West of England to achieve the BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.
Piccadilly Place is an area of public realm in which everyone can be proud. This stunning space is an impressive welcome to the UK’s second city for the millions of visitors that come through Piccadilly, while simultaneously offering a cool oasis of calm in the centre of it all. The red clay paver is reminiscent of many of Manchester’s historic mills and Victorian municipal buildings and forges an important link between the contemporary piazza and the city around it.
Clive Bartlam – Project Director, Argent
CLIENT: ARGENT ESTATES LTD/CARLYLE GROUP
COMPLETION: 2008
SERVICE: LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: MASTERPLANNING, ARCHITECTURE
CONTRACTOR: CARILLION PLC
STRUCTURES: TIER CONSULTING
SERVICES: SHEPHERD ENGINEERING SERVICES
COST CONSULTANT: FAITHFUL + GOULD
AWARDS: 2008 PROPERTY WEEK NORTH WEST ‘COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR’
Mixed use development of 97,000m2 comprising offices, hotel, residential apartments, shopping, food and drink over three levels of underground parking
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Located within the city centre and the Piccadilly Regeneration area, Piccadilly Place is a mixed use development of 97,000 square metres comprising offices, hotel, residential apartments, shopping, food and drink over three levels of underground parking. The gateway site creates a new entrance to Manchester whether arriving by train or by car from the South.
The masterplan augments existing routes around and through the site with the creation of a new pedestrian footbridge connecting to Piccadilly Station. Austin-Smith:Lord’s masterplan is realised through buildings by several architects including our own Three Piccadilly Place, 250,000 sqft of speculative office space clad in a copper zinc alloy.
Austin-Smith:Lord has risen to the challenge of this complex city centre project, coordinating the work of six architects and various artists within their overall scheme. They have responded to the various interests of our joint landowners, Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive; Planning and Building Control and Council Access Officers, amongst others.
We continue to be impressed with the commitment and service that Austin-Smith:Lord has and continues to provide.
Tony Giddings – Construction Director, Argent Estates Ltd
CLIENT: ARGENT ESTATES LTD
COMPLETION: 2008
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: COMMERCIAL
CONTRACTOR: CARILLION PLC
LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH: LORD
STRUCTURES: TIER CONSULTING
SERVICES: SHEPHERD ENGINEERING SERVICES
COST CONSULTANT: FAITHFUL + GOULD
A major element of the Speke Garston regeneration programme. Masterplanning, development of the landscape infrastructure, detailed design and implementation
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Boulevard Industry Park forms a major element of the Speke Garston regeneration programme. Austin-Smith:Lord undertook the masterplanning role for the site and also developed the landscape infrastructure through detail design to implementation. The main spine road was designed to produce a strong, consistent, unifying image linking the various developments proposed for the site. The spine road also incorporated a section of the Transpennine Trail, with its own unique, yet contextual design approach.
Our challenge was to deliver not just one “machine” for production and delivery, but six on one route. Not only critical logistics, but a standard building design that responds to functional need and is precisely cost predictable. In addition, the external environment reflects and reinforces Jaguar Land Rover’s brand.
We developed a family of high throughput facilities in a road-based logistics system designed for multiple redundancy and failure. The facilities allow for system retro-fit without interruption of operations.
Occupiers include Evans Vaccines, Conix, Lear Corporation, Coughlin Logistics, Medeva (Medimmune), Visteon, Infast, Stadco and Chiron, with buildings and plot development undertaken by Austin-Smith: Lord.
LOCATION: HALEWOOD, MERSEYSIDE
CLIENT: INTERCITY JIS IN ASSOC W/ENGLISH PARTNERSEHIPS + SPEKE GARSTON DEVELOP/JAGUAR LAND ROVER
COMPLETION: 2000
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, MASTERPLANNING, LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: INDUSTRY AND INFRASTRUCTURE
Landmark scheme within the Thames Gateway redevelopment
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Ford Diesel Centre Dagenham
Austin-Smith:Lord was appointed designer of the masterplan for this 35-hectare Ford plant in East London, from detail design to implementation, as well as to work on a new Diesel Centre. The project turned the existing plot of land into a supplier park and a centre of excellence for the manufacture of diesel engines for the Ford Motor Company.
Designed as a landmark scheme within the Thames Gateway redevelopment, this state-of-the-art car factory is considered an exemplar project. The plans for Ford’s high-tech diesel engineering and manufacturing facility combine product development and assembly in an innovative workplace environment that integrates the designers and engineers with their manufacturing colleagues to increase Dagenham’s diesel engine build capacity.
CLIENT: FORD MOTOR COMPANY
COMPLETION: 2005
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: INDUSTRY + INFRASTRUCTURE
CONTRACTOR: SDC CONSTRUCTION GROUP
LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH: LORD
STRUCTURES: MOTT MACDONALD
SERVICES: MOTT MACDONALD
COST CONSULTANT: TURNER + TOWNSEND
The underside of the striking form of the concourse roof is clad in anodized aluminium sheeting, creating a strong focal point over the key entrance area
Transport for Greater Manchester commissioned Austin-Smith:Lord to design a replacement nineteen stand £15.7m bus station in Wigan Town Centre; which will provide a fully accessible covered passenger concourse, with designated waiting areas with information points and seating. The underside of the striking form of the concourse roof is clad in anodized aluminium sheeting, creating a strong focal point over the key entrance area. Large areas of glass and two large ETFE roof lights contribute to making this a bright and welcoming space. In consideration of the key heritage areas of Wigan the other key material is facing brickwork, in two different tones.
The design includes more attractive routes to and from the town centre for pedestrians, reducing the number of pedestrian crossing points across the site from fourteen to two. The covered concourse will also improve passenger comfort and weather protection with improved passenger information; Improved accessibility into and across the town to employment, education, leisure, retail and other travel modes.
The project significantly contributes to the regeneration of Wigan Town Centre by delivering a new, more attractive bus station that complements the wider town centre development. As a reflection of the outline brief the design incorporates a new Travelshop, coffee shop facilities, new newsagents, high quality fully accessible toilets, and a baby changing and changing places facility. A stand alone cycle parking facility is also provided set within a new urban realm area which fronts one of the key pedestrian approaches to the station.
The project was completed in October 2018.
Working alongside A-S:L on the Wigan Bus Station project, from concept through to completion, was a very positive experience. A-S:L were fully committed to not only delivering work to a high standard but also fulfilling various stakeholder requirements which were made possible through collaborative design reviews. In addition, A-S:L brought experience and innovation to the design which ultimately resulted in a building which is both functional and iconic.
Early in this project there were a number of affordability challenges but A-S:L worked collaboratively with the client and the wider design team to deliver a building which bettered the aspirations of the client and the travelling public but was also delivered on budget and to time. Since completion the positive response to the design from the public has been overwhelming.
James Nairn – TfGM Senior Project Manager for Wigan Bus Station
COMPLETION: 2018
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN, LANDSCAPE
SECTOR: TRANSPORT
CONTRACTOR: VINCI
LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH: LORD
STRUCTURES: MOTT MACDONALD
SERVICES: MOTT MACDONALD
COST CONSULTANT: TURNER + TOWNSEND
Reopened to the public September 2018 after £2.5m refurb
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Partick Bus Station Redevelopment
Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) proposed to redevelop the bus station facility at Partick to improve the passenger experience and address current health and safety issues. Partick has become a strategic transport interchange facility in the west end of Glasgow with the redevelopment and regeneration of Partick and the Glasgow Harbour area.
This project was reopened to the public in September 2018.
Fantastic improvement to the bus station at a strategically important hub. Many thanks to everyone in the SPT team, ASL architects and Luddons. Great team effort.
Charles Hoskins, Senior Director, SPT
COMPLETION: 2018
SERVICE: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SECTOR: TRANSPORT
CONTRACTOR: LUDDON CONSTRUCTION LTD
LANDSCAPE: AUSTIN-SMITH: lORD
STRUCTURES: CURTINS
COST CONSULTANT: CURRIE & BROWN
COMMUNITY HUB, ARCHIVE + LIBRARY, SWANSEATransformation of two vacant department stores in the heart of Swansea.
