Warwick Bar
Birminghan
Birminghan
Project Data
Second Prize: Competition
Client
ISIS Waterside Regeneration, Municipality of Birmingham,
Eastside Regeneration Group
Design
2005
Program
4,200 m2 cultural space and educational space
500 m2 cafés and restaurants
3,400 m2 workshop and commercial space
13,600 m2 housing
Site
1.4 ha
Client
ISIS Waterside Regeneration, Municipality of Birmingham,
Eastside Regeneration Group
Design
2005
Program
4,200 m2 cultural space and educational space
500 m2 cafés and restaurants
3,400 m2 workshop and commercial space
13,600 m2 housing
Site
1.4 ha
Project overview
Warwick Bar is a canal-side conservation area in Birmingham, which was home to many factories during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. Several listed buildings built by the canal company from the 1840s and 1850s still exist.
1.9 hectares of the conservation area began a redevelopment programme during 2005 as part of Birmingham’s Eastside Development - a development driven by the education, science and business sectors. S333 was invited to propose a strategic framework plan for an innovative environment to support creative industries located along the banks of the canal.
Innovative environments can prosper when the historic fabric of the city creates the potential for extended networks of knowledge transfer, both informal and formal, that ultimately allows regeneration to take place.
Our project provides a series of easily identifiable plots built around historic water spaces. This delivers an active ground floor with different types of living accommodation above. The ground floor not only brings together the formal spaces of studios, classrooms, meeting rooms and laboratories. It also houses the informal places of the café, park, hotel lobby and gallery, enabling more places for exchange to occur.
By opening up the site to its waterfront, a commercial and sustainable vision could be generated while strengthening and linking the ecological and environmental qualities of the historic waterside.
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>> Extended Project Data
1.9 hectares of the conservation area began a redevelopment programme during 2005 as part of Birmingham’s Eastside Development - a development driven by the education, science and business sectors. S333 was invited to propose a strategic framework plan for an innovative environment to support creative industries located along the banks of the canal.
Innovative environments can prosper when the historic fabric of the city creates the potential for extended networks of knowledge transfer, both informal and formal, that ultimately allows regeneration to take place.
Our project provides a series of easily identifiable plots built around historic water spaces. This delivers an active ground floor with different types of living accommodation above. The ground floor not only brings together the formal spaces of studios, classrooms, meeting rooms and laboratories. It also houses the informal places of the café, park, hotel lobby and gallery, enabling more places for exchange to occur.
By opening up the site to its waterfront, a commercial and sustainable vision could be generated while strengthening and linking the ecological and environmental qualities of the historic waterside.
>> Read more
