project overviews
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RUDI's project overview section will feature individual project data supported by a short description including facts, images, plans and drawings.Projects may be of any type: streets, housing estates, parks, squares, walkways, waterfronts – any part of the built environment in any part of the world as long as it references points of interest.Click here for a 'quick link' to an alphabetical listing, by place name, of project overviews. We welcome submissions for this section, please contact RUDI for details. |
New communities: overview of Brooklands, Cambourne, Northstowe, Sherford and Cranbrook
Many of the proposed new settlements have met with stiff local opposition, a common concern being that existing villages will be swallowed up by the new scheme. As a result efforts are being made to segregate them from new settlement. This issue has come up at many of the new communities that have been developed in Britain over the past 25 years. What can we learn from new communities?Hastings: education and heritage-led regeneration
Education is regarded as one key element in a major programme of regeneration which has the aim of reviving the economy of the seaside town of Hastings, East Sussex, along with its neighbour Bexhill. A new style 'multi-versity' now has over 700 students, while a new further education college is under constructionLIfE project (long-term initiatives for flood risk environment)
Many new homes are planned in areas of flood risk, especially those in the Thames Gateway. Every new development exacerbates long-term problems of flood risk and water shortage. LIfE (long-term initiatives for flood risk environment) provides integrated master-planning, architecture and environmental solutions to areas at risk. Barking Central
Barking Central is designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, originally for Urban Catalyst - now for Redrow, to create 200 homes and a lifelong learning centre on the site of an original library. The project sits adjacent to the existing town hall and includes the creation of a new civic square New Cross Gate, London
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects won the competition to design a sustainable living quarter in London's New Cross Gate in February 2006. The New Deal for Communities New Cross Gate sponsored the design competition based on a brief to provide health, educational, community, creative and performing arts facilities together with a new public square and residential units. The project is one of the Mayor's 100 Public Spaces Programme The Old Street Promenade of Light, London
The stretch of pavement between Old Street roundabout and Bath Street is now known as the Old Street Promenade of Light. It is an award winning public space that offers a tree-lined, illuminated pedestrian promenade that can be enjoyed by everyone
St Pauls, Bristol
Bristol's tallest-ever building, an environmentally-friendly 40-storey tower development, could become the spectacular symbol of urban regeneration in the St Paul’s area of the city under new proposals being drawn up by RPS. Manchester city centre regeneration (EDAW)
The EDAW Masterplan was announced as the winner of the International Design Competition back in November 1996. Supplementary Planning Guidance was then formally adopted to underpin the masterplan and to give a spatial definition and statutory basis to the vision, which was completed years later The reconstruction programme for Manchester’s City Centre was guided by a strong vision of the kind of place local people would like to see emerge from the devastation caused by the bomb. That vision embodied in the masterplan builds strongly upon the aims and objectives of the ‘City Pride’ Prospectus and other strategic priorities of the City
Bristol, UK
Bristol is growing; by 2026 there are likely to be 30,000 more people living in the city. In the area surrounding Bristol (the former county of Avon), the population will increase by some 100,000. As a result of changes to the planning system in 2004, work has already begun on the Bristol Development Framework, which will guide the significant growth that will be occurring in Bristol over the next 20 years 
