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EDAW is briefly a world-renowned design and planning company, EDAW’s Europe region is led from London and includes offices in Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast.
I looked into some of EDAWs latest work. There is an interesting project in London. It’s the Green Wall Project in Westfield London. It is a £1.7bn development that needed to be completed with distinctive landscape and design which includes a landmark of 170m long living wall. Below you will be seeing some photographs of this project:
EDAW created a grand entrance, attractive and accessible pedestrian streets and vibrant interior and exterior public spaces. The streetscape incorporates a powerful graphic device of flowing lines in black and silver-grey granite paving which draws shoppers into the space from the new underground, overground rail and bus stations completed by the developer. The generous public realm includes seating, planters, street furniture, trees and ornamental planting.
The scheme places great importance on integrating the new development into its urban context with landscape playing a key role in upgrading the local environment and providing screening and buffers between the development and existing houses and transport interchanges.
Source: www.edaw.co.uk
I have been to a few of EDAWs projects in Manchester and Liverpool. The one in Manchester is the City Centre Redevelopment. EDAW has done the framework, detailed masterplan and the oublic realm startegy vision.
Source: www.edaw.co.uk
Their plan was to re-energise the city centre with new public spaces, greater pedestrian access and reduced road traffic, new homes and an economy expanded from 8 hours /day to 18.
At the north of the site a former car park has become a green oasis called Cathedral Gardens where the contemporary-style exhibition centre called Urbis has opened. South of here, and close to the heart of the blast, a former four-lane road interchange has been transformed into Exchange Square designed by landscape architect Martha Schwartz. Two timber-beamed pubs, known as The Shambles and damaged in the blast, were dismantled and rebuilt in a different location opening up views to St Ann’s Church. New Cathedral Street was created too, completing the vista from church to cathedral.
Looking on to Exchange Square is the Arndale Centre shopping mall where fortress-like walls have been pierced by new entrances relating to the local street pattern for greater permeability and shops have been incorporated at street level. And completing the sides of Exchange Square is a large new department store.
The work has stimulated regeneration of surrounding areas including large developments such as the Printworks, a former newspaper print works reinvented as an entertainment hub with cinemas, restaurants, a gym, clubs and bars.
I have taken a few pics of Martha Shwartz Project in Manchester.
I really liked this project at Exchange Square/Manchester.
The water fountain looks really good. Although it was a shame i havent seen it working.
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