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Brewery Park
Brewery Park
Leeds
“Embracing the Extroadinary”
Welcome to the new dynamic heart of Leeds. Brewery Park is an iconic, sustainable new destination for Leeds, which offers relaxation, culture, recreation, biodiversity and art. The space embodies the city’s rich history, with unique, modern design uniting functionality with a beautiful park, which everyone can relate to and enjoy.
The Tetley Brewery site
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Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, with a strong industrial past. Once at the heart of the textile industry, it is now a bustling city with new innovations, modern developments and a booming retail sector. The site itself was originally the home of Tetley Brewery, founded in 1882 by Joshua Tetley. Though it was originally the largest brewery in Leeds, the establsihment expanded further over following years to beomce a mammoth iconic landmark for the city. Now a car park, the site has the potential to become a new destination for Leeds, regenerating the South Bank area.
(With New South Station Entrance) Crown Point Shopping Park
Proposed HS2 Station
In recent years, development in Leeds has been focused in the centre, above the River Aire. Physical barriers such as the main loop system harbouring the majority of traffic, train lines and the River Aire have left the south bank somewhat neglected. Thus, the area has experienced an economic downturn, connections have deteriorated and once proud historic buildings have become lost. Leeds City Council are instigating the redevelopment of the south bank of the River Aire, in order to reconnect it with the city centre. Brewery Park will be at the heart of a contemporary sustainable city which improves quality of life, offering verdant, green multi-functional spaces for recreation and relaxation.
Concept to Form To sensitively and accurately envisage a park that is usable, functional and beautiful, a series of design objectives were established. Following extensive research five fundamental concepts were ascertained to dictate the space. Firstly, to create a ‘green’ city, visually greening the site to provide better quality spaces and extend green infrastructure through the city, enhancing biodiversity. Secondly, adopting the concept of Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), ensuring the site is sustainable in terms of water management able to adapt to future climate change. Third, enhance heritage, by valuing the historic buildings and heritage of the site and Leeds itself. Fourth, connectivity; reconnect to the city and surrounding areas and key pedestrian and cycle routes on site. Finally, consider human scale, creating a series of spaces which respond to different user needs and a variety of liveable character areas which stimulate the senses.
Concept Diagram
Brewery Park Proposal Masterplan Brewery Park has the potential to reconnect the south bank to the city centre and surrounding areas, creating a vibrant new social hub at the cutting-edge of modern design. The site will be at the heart of a contemporary sustainable city which improves quality of life, offering verdant, green multi-functional spaces for recreation and relaxation. This will be a dynamic new inter-generational destination for Leeds on the south bank, providing essential new connections and regenerating the area; a park for the future.
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Stimulating spaces The detailed design area is the space around the West Gateway. A series of provocative, liveable gardens designed to stimulate the senses, these engaging landscapes enhance the beauty of Brewery Park. Subtle hard materials
Key dETAILED DESIGN Proposal Key STIMULATING SPACES
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The detailed design area is the space around the West Gateway. A series of provocative, liveable gardens designed to stimulate The Poolsthe senses, these engaging landscapes enhance the beauty of Brewery Park. Subtle hard materials enrich the flowing planting scheme, Urban to establish a tasteful, aesthetically captivating park. Green walls Santuary enclose the northern garden, creating a stunning backdrop for the Planting awe-inspiring High-Rise Waterfall, a stacked block granite creation inspired by the city’s built form. Large circular decked platforms The offer space to get comfortable and unwind, connected with smaller Wetland decked ‘stepping stones’. Storage compartments beneathBanks the circular seating contain large waterproof cushions and beanbags to make the space your own. Playful rills and streams wind in and out of fresh Garden of planting and smooth low-lying rocks, while pebbly groundTime cover is therapeutic underfoot. This is a joyous space, instilling a sense of freedom.
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Less rigid, refined materials, such as the pebbles and natural boulders should have a smooth, weathered feel, to integrate into the character of the landscape seamlessly, instilling a sense of timelessness and belonging. All materials should be durable and respond well to damp conditions, with appropriate treatments when required.
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Contemporary materials from around the city, such as the granite paving at Clarence Docks and laminated glass used throughout the city’s modernistic buildings will feature, linking Brewery Park to the surrounding landscape. These elegant materials will bring a feel of sophistication to a very informal landscape.
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The Garden OF Time
SOFT mATERIALS The planting on site embraces a looseness and freedom, full of motion and texture; infused with purples, whites and yellows throughout. Tall architectural grasses are scattered amognst repeated patterns with vibrant flowers while lower lying soft textured planting mediates the change in height in the Garden of Time, framing the view towards the Brewery Building. Exciting seasonal change is fundamental, from blazing autumnal colour to winter interest. The vivid metallic peeling bark of Prunus serrula, contrasts with the blinding white birch at opposing ends of the gardens. The green roof introduces a new level of movement when the Dianthus and chives dance in the wind. This creative concept uses the natural uptake of water into plants to tackle stormwater runoff at the source, retaining rainfall on the roof, This is a planting scheme full of life and vitality to reflect the electric atmosphere of this innovative city.
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An Urban Sanctuary