One Hyde Park London,

Uk

One Hyde Park has given Knightsbridge a distinctive new residential development which relates strongly to the existing streetscape and opens up views between Hyde Park and Knightsbridge. Once inside the building these views are maintained from a series of fully-glazed circulation cores incorporating stairs, lifts and lobbies. One Hyde Park comprises 86 apartments and duplexes (including four penthouses) plus three retail units at ground floor level fronting onto Knightsbridge. Additional facilities for residents include: a private cinema; a 69 ft swimming pool, squash courts, gym and a business suite with meeting rooms.

The design seeks to complement the existing streetscape of Knightsbridge and create a scheme that offers daylight and generous views whilst achieving the necessary degree of privacy for its occupants.

As befits luxury apartments, elegant detailing and quality of construction were of great importance. Materials were chosen to reflect the colouring and texture of the surrounding buildings: red-brown copper alloy façades complement the surrounding red brick buildings; and pale structural concrete mimics stone details on the neighbouring Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

A new gateway to the Park has been created by relocating Edinburgh Gate to the western edge of the site. The roadway is covered by a canopy and the top surface is planted to provide a visual amenity for all those overlooking it and protect residents from traffic noise. Epstein’s ‘Pan’ which was at the northern end of the existing Edinburgh Gate has been repositioned to maintain its relationship to the new roadway.

Along the eastern edge of the site, linking the Park to Knightsbridge, a new pedestrian route through the site, Serpentine Walk, has been created. The original Knightsbridge underground station entrance has been relocated adjacent to Mandarin Oriental Hotel. The entrance was designed using a similar palette of materials to those used in One Hyde Park creating a structure with a glazed roof and walls that appears to be both open and solid.

Renowned lighting artist, James Turrell has created a unified lighting concept that interacts with the development’s architecture. It includes perimeter lighting for the five glass stair and lift structures and a colourful light display.

Location London, UK

Date 2005 - 2011

Client Project Grande (Guernsey) Ltd

Development Managers Candy & Candy

Cost £250 million

Total Area 6,996,54 sq ft

Structural Engineer Arup

Services Engineer Cundall

Landscape Architect Gillespies LLP

Project Manager GVA Second London Wall Project Management Planning Consultant DP9

Interior Design Candy & Candy

Interior Architect BFLS

Main Contractor Laing O’Rourke

Riverlight

London, UK

Riverlight transforms a triangular, five-acre industrial estate – close to Battersea Power Station on the south bank of the River Thames – into a residential-led mixed use development, creating a transition between the large footprints of the power station and the smaller residential developments to the east.

The scheme includes 806 homes, underground parking, crèche, restaurants, bars, a food store and other retail spaces. It incorporates a river walk and landscaping to take full advantage of its location and create attractive public spaces for the local community.

The development is delivered via six buildings, arranged in a rising-form composition, ranging in height from 12 to 20 storeys and giving the development a varied skyline.

Around 60 per cent of the scheme is designated as public open space. The architectural expression takes its cue from the former industrial warehouse buildings that lined the river. The language is of simple robust structures which emphasise their construction. Buildings are divided into three distinct zones: top, middle, and base. Top levels are lightweight, two-storey structures with gull-wing roofs; mid levels are represented as concrete floors expressed every two storeys, with intermediate floors expressed as lightweight steel balconies.

In landscape terms, each area of the development is conceived as having its own distinct character. The newly created river walk – slightly raised to allow views over the river wall to the Thames – brings a 65 ft wide boulevard to a previously underused part of the waterfront. Commercial and community uses at street level – including restaurants, bars and cafés arranged around the dock inlet, as well as a food store, crèche and business suite –help to attract visitors onto the site and animate the public areas of the scheme.

Location London, UK

Date

2009 - 2016

Client St James’ Group

Cost £200 million

Site Area 5.4 acres

Net Residential Area 1,055,024 sq ft

Executive Architect EPR

Structural Engineer Ramboll Services Engineer Hoare Lea Planning Consultants and Environmental Service Co-ordination

TP Bennett Landscape Architect Gillespies LLP

Townscape Consultant Montagu Evans

The Leadenhall Building

London, UK

Location London, UK

Date 2000 - 2014

Client British Land Company LLC and Oxford

Properties

Building Owner

CC Land Holdings

Limited

Site Area 32,291 sq ft

Gross Internal Area 908,732 sq ft

Structural Engineer Arup

Services Engineer Arup

Landscape Architect Edco Design London / Gillespies

Main Contractor Laing O’Rourke

Environmental

Certification BREEAM Excellent

Key Awards

2018

RIBA National and London Awards

2017

The British Constructional Steelwork Association Awards, Main National Award Winner and Special Award for Best Overall Project

2016

NLA New London Awards Best Commercial Building British Council of Offices (BCO) Best Commercial Workplace in the UK

2015

Corportation of London, City of London Building of the Year

This 50-storey tower opposite Lloyd’s of London rises to a height of 738 ft, its slender form creating its own distinctive profile within an emerging cluster of tall buildings in this part of the City of London. The building’s tapering profile is prompted by a requirement to respect views of St Paul’s Cathedral, in particular from Fleet Street. The tower’s design ensures that from this key vantage point the cathedral’s dome is still framed by a clear expanse of sky.

The office floors are designed to meet the highest quality office space standards taking the form of rectangular floor plates which progressively diminish in depth towards the apex. Instead of a traditional central core providing structural stability, the building employs a full perimeter braced tube which defines the edge of the office floor plates and creates stability under wind loads. The circulation and servicing core is located in a detached north-facing tower, containing colourcoded passenger and goods lifts, service risers and on-floor plant and WCs.

The building’s envelope expresses the diversity of what it encloses, reinforcing the composition and providing legibility to the primary elements. Although the tower occupies the entire site, the scheme delivers an unprecedented allocation of public space – the lower levels are recessed on a raking diagonal to create a spectacular, sun-lit seven-storey high space complete with shops, and soft landscaped public space.

This public space offers a half-acre extension to the adjacent piazza of St Helen’s Square. Overlooking the space is a public bar and restaurant served by glazed lifts. This new public space provides a rare breathing space within the dense urban character of the City of London.

Commercial

International Towers

Sydney, Australia

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Location Sydney, Australia

Date 2010 - 2016

Client

Lendlease

Tower 1 Area 1,251,692 sq ft

Tower 2 Area 1,072,688 sq ft

Tower 3 Area 974,392 sq ft

Co-Architect Lendlease Design

Structural Engineer Arup/Lendlease Design Services Engineer NDY

Façade Engineer Arup

Cost Consultant

Lendlease

Planning Consultant

JBA

Contractor Lendlease

The towers are conceived as three sibling buildings within the RSHP masterplan for Barangaroo South, each with their own identity. They form a western extension to Sydney’s CBD, meeting increased demand from tenants for large floorplate offices, and integral to the ongoing viability and success of Sydney as a global city and key financial centre. Together they assist in completing Sydney’s framework of tall buildings, established at Circular Quay and adjacent to the Botanic Gardens, with a rising form from south to north and a strong edge to the open water beyond. This cluster of buildings, similar in height to some of the existing CBD buildings, completes the city’s northwestern limit.

Each office tower responds to its unique geographic and environmental condition, along with the changing solar load throughout the day. This response has informed the design development of the floorplate and facades, bringing diversity and individuality to the design of each building. One of the aspirations for the project was to set new environmental benchmarks in Australia. This is achieved through the combination of solar shading, glass technology and thermal performance directly responding to context, orientation and solar path.

Energy consumption is reduced by arranging the lift cores and ‘vertical village’ community spaces on the northern elevation of the building, which provides shading for the internal workspace. These vertical villages – which include communal breakout spaces and meeting areas – enable visual and physical connections to be made between floors and encourage social interaction between users and visitors throughout the building. The precinctwide centralised plant spaces allow the whole rooftop to be used as an open terrace and the podium roofs, vertical villages and building insets all provide the opportunity for planting, adding biodiversity to this urban site.

The towers sit on a three-storey plinth conceived as a carved piece of ground that mediates between the waters’ edge and the cliff edge presented by the city behind. The plinth creates a tight human scale streetscape with lobbies alongside other street activities such as retail and leisure. To minimise the number of service vehicles entering the development, the buildings share a common basement accessed from a single point of entrance, leaving the surrounding streets fully pedestrianised or pedestrian prioritised. All these factors help to generate a public realm that is vibrant and animated and safe.

Terminal 4, Barajas Airport Barajas, Spain

The terminal, which is the biggest in Spain, was commissioned to enable Barajas International Airport to compete with major hub airports within Europe. The core building comprises a sequence of parallel spaces separated by a linear block allowing daylight to penetrate deep into the interior. The same form is applied to the satellite, which is comprised of two linear blocks, one for passport control and the other containing the gates.

The bamboo linear roof structure is connected above by a chain of roof lights, permitting maximum flexibility in the arrangement of accommodation on each of the floors. This enables the building to be expanded in phases. The new terminal has a metro, rail station and landside transit link to the existing terminals as well as a transit system linking the core terminal with the satellite.

Pedestrian circulation to and from the parking area is concentrated along the face of the parking structure, creating an animated façade opposite the terminal. The layout of the arrivals hall creates clear and separate routes to the various modes of ground transportation, giving equal weight to public and private transport. The arrivals and departures forecourts as well as the train and metro station are covered by a standard module of the roof, which thereby encompasses the entire sequence of activities from drop-off to departure gate.

Environmental measures, aimed at significantly reducing energy consumption, include a stratified cooling system, displacement ventilation supply to the piers, low level air supply to all other passenger areas, extensive shading to the facades and roof lights, zoned lighting and the collection of rainwater to irrigate the landscape.

Awards

2008

Airport Council International Award for Best European Airport

RIBA Stirling Prize

Istructe Award for Commercial or Retail Structures

AIA/UK Excellence in Design Award

2006 RIBA European Award

2005 RIBA Airport Award

Location

Madrid, Spain

Date 1997-2005

Client AENA

Cost £448 million

Areas:

Total 12,464,608 sq ft

New Terminal Building 5,059,037 sq ft

Satellite 3,390,631 sq ft

Co-Architects

Estudio Lamela

Structural Engineer Anthony Hunt Associates/ TPS with OTEP/HCA

Facade Engineer Arup

Landscape Architect dosAdos

Lighting Consultant Arup / Speirs Major

Main Contractor

Terminal UTE; Satellite UTE; parking DRAGADOS; manutention bagages

Siemens Dematic

A key component of the long-term vision of Genève Aéroport,the project replaces the existing “Wide-body Aircraft” facility built for temporary use in 1975 and whose standards, in terms of thermal and energy performances as well as passenger wellbeing, no longer correspond to today’s requirements and expectations.

The Aile Est (East Wing) renews the airport campus: it embodies the airport’s sustainable development ambitions and meets the needs of both passengers and airlines. The energy-efficient glass and steel building across two main levels is 1,706 ft long. The East Wing can accommodate 3,000 passengers per hour on departure and 2,800 on arrival. It serves 6 existing aircraft contact stands, including 4 MARS stands as well as remote stands.

Geneva Airport, East Wing

Geneva, Switzerland

The East Wing is a model of sustainability and energy efficiency. This project illustrates how passive design, onsite renewables, efficient active systems, responsible water consumption, a focus on well-being and “Whole Life Carbon” can jointly deliver sustainable airport design.

The building meets the multiple physical and aeronautical constraints of the site: its inclined facades respond to imposed setbacks and protect against direct solar radiation on the apron side, its raised design accommodates the service road below. The circulation and technical cores every 80 m emphasize the clarity of the diagram expressing served and servant spaces. The East Wing is designed to be an energy-positive building. It benefits amongst other features from 75,562 sq ft of photovoltaic panels on the roof, 110 geothermal piles, high-performance glass facades as well as LED lighting.

The East Wing possesses breathtaking clarity of intent: a singular straight line that transports the passenger and underlines the mountains beyond. Primary structure and energy-efficient technologies are celebrated, orchestrated into a simple bold statement. Each engineering component is finely crafted, not unlike that of a beautiful Swiss watch. These elementary pieces are given further emphasis by a spectrum of colours that provides clarity as well as a joyful and memorable experience for all travellers.

Location Geneva, Switzerland

Date 2011 - 2021

Client Genève Aéroport

Cost for Aile Est sector

610m CHF

Total Area

430,556 sq ft

Design: RBI-T

RSHP (Architect)

Atelier d’architecture

Jacques Bugna (Co-Architect)

Ingérop (Structural and Services Engineer)

T-Ingénierie SA

(Structural Engineer)

Lighting Consultant Speirs Major Wayfinding Consultant

Mijksenaar

Acoustic & Public Address Consultant

Bien Entendu

Architecture & Acoustique

Facade Consultant

Arcora

Fire Consultant

Swiss Safety Center Exova & Warringtonfire

Passenger Facilitation Consultant

Jacobs (CH2M)

Transportation

Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport

London, UK

Location London, UK

Date 1989 - 2008

Client BAA plc

Total Project Cost £4.3 billion

Total Area 984,251 sq ft Terminal, 196,850 sq ft Satellite 508,530 sq ft Satellite 2

Production-Architect Pascall + Watson

Production-Architect

Rail Exchange HOK

Structural Engineer Arup

Civil Engineer Mott MacDonald

Services Engineer DSSR/Arup

RSHP won the competition for Terminal 5 (T5) at Heathrow Airport in 1989. The terminal became operational in March 2008, after being officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.

The original competition scheme evolved during the 1990s, shaped by changing requirements, including a dramatic reduction in site area and different security needs.

The built scheme for the main terminal offers an unencumbered, long-span ‘envelope’ – developed with Arup – with a flexibility of internal space conceptually similar to that of the practice’s much earlier design for the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Departure and arrivals areas, check-in desks, commercial space, retail, offices, passenger lounges, back-up and other facilities are all contained within freestanding steel-framed structures inside the building and can be dismantled and reconfigured as future needs change.

The built, multi-level scheme is contained beneath an elegant, curved floating roof, supported by slim columns at the perimeter edges to provide the required highly flexible and visually dramatic internal space. In this scheme, passengers depart and arrive in a terminal building which offers generous spaces and fine views across the airport.

As well as the design of the main terminal building, RSHP was also responsible for the design of two satellites and Heathrow’s new control tower, which became operational in early 2007. The main terminal, its satellite buildings, and the new control tower are all part of a wider T5 campus development that includes a landscaped motorway link from the M25, the creation of two new open rivers from previously culverted channels under the airport, the construction of more than a square kilometre of taxi-ways and aircraft stands, three rail stations (for the Piccadilly line, Heathrow Express, and overland rail), an airside track transit system, and an airside road tunnel connecting directly to Heathrow’s central terminal area.

Awards

2008

Structural Steel Design Award

RIBA National Award

RIBA London Award

Supreme Award for Structural Engineering Excellence, Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

Structural Award for Commercial Structures, Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

Off Site Construction Award - Best Commercial Project, Off Site Construction (OSC), Sustain Magazine

British Construction Industry Awards - Highly Commended

Transportation

Hong KongZhuhai-Macao

Bridge Hong Kong Port - Passenger Clearance Building

Hong Kong

Location Hong Kong

Date 2010 - 2018

Client Highways Department

Government

Area 323,392 sq ft

Co-Architect

AEDAS (Hong Kong)

Civil Engineer Aecom

Steelwork & Structural Engineer Buro Happold

Services Engineer Aecom

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The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge provides strategic connections between Zhuhai, Macao and Hong Kong. The bridge will foster the flow of people, goods, capital and information and improve the overall connectivity of the Greater Bay Area. The bridge improves transport connectivity within the Greater Bay Area, and greatly reduces travelling time between Hong Kong and other Greater Bay Area cities.

The Passenger Clearance Building (PCB) is built on a new 370 acres artificial island reclaimed from the open waters to the north-east of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) and benefits from the proximity to the HKIA’s transport links, including the SkyPier Ferry Terminal, and the MTR’s Airport Express and Tung Chung line. It is the new crossing point over the boundary between Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao and the facilities serve as a gateway for all those passing through it. The building provides a unique opportunity to give Hong Kong an architectural ‘front door’ which celebrates travel, surrounded by water with views to a natural skyline of evergreen mountains and hills.

The PCB is constantly filled with movement; buses arrive and leave the public transport interchange, and visitors and residents wait to gain immigration clearance. Careful thought has therefore been put into how users move around the building.

The simple, clear circulation through the facility and the undulating flow of surrounding waters is reinforced by the waveform roof, enhancing legibility and providing intuitive wayfinding. The movement through the building is punctuated with full height canyons allowing natural daylight to penetrate all levels of the building and ensure there is a visual connection to the linear roof form to further reinforce clarity of wayfinding.

The elegant modular roof form ideally lent itself to offsite pre-fabrication and has enabled an efficient construction process achieving a very high level of quality. The project is environmentally friendly, aiming to meet the highest standards for new developments and utilise innovative green technologies.

Awards

2019 Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Awards Grand Award for Structural Excellence

British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre London, UK

The World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre (WCEC) is one of the largest redevelopment projects in the British Museum’s 260-year history. Located in the north-west corner of its Bloomsbury estate, the new nine-storey building consists of five pavilions, one of which is entirely underground, and accommodates 175 staff. It provides the Museum with a new major exhibition gallery, state-of-the-art laboratories and studios, and world class storage for the collection, as well as important facilities to support its extensive UK and international loan programme.

The design is sensitive to the Museum’s existing architecture and that of the surrounding Bloomsbury Conservation Area – the WCEC is bordered by seven listed buildings – whilst maintaining its own identity. The Portland stone and kiln-formed glass used on the pavilions are inspired by the materials of the existing buildings and the shaded façade subtly reveals the activities within. The mass and height of the pavilions are designed to create a subtle transition from the grand scale of the Museum to the more domestic proportions of the predominantly 18th century properties in the neighbouring streets.

Location London, UK

Date

2007-2014

Cost

£135 million

Area

19,3750 sq ft

Client

The British Museum

Structural Engineer Ramboll UK

Services Engineer Arup

Landscape Architect Gillespies LLP

Whilst conservation studios and offices are housed at the top of pavilions in order to provide good quality daylight for detailed work, almost 70% of the building is underground, including the Collections Storage Facility where heavy floor loading capability and the building’s most stable environmental conditions are found. Over 53,819 sq ft of new storage space means the Museum can now house its entire, disparate collection at the Bloomsbury site and the addition of a 42-tonne truck lift (one of the biggest in Europe) allows large or incredibly fragile objects to be safely transported to and from the building under controlled conditions.

The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery, which connects at ground level to the Great Court for easy public access, replaces the Reading Room as the Museum’s largest temporary exhibition’s space, providing a total area of 1100m² and 6-metre headroom for displays. It is capable of operating independently of the rest of the Museum with potential for 24/7 public access and has its own foyer and shop. It opened in March 2014 with the exhibition “Vikings: life and legend” that took full advantage of the spacious new gallery by installing a 121.3 ft long, reconstructed Viking ship.

Location

Liévin, France

Date 2015 - 2019

Client

Musée du Louvre / Région Hauts de France

Construction cost

€35 million

Area

215,278 sq ft

Cost Consultant

VPEAS SAS

Landscape Architects

Mutabilis Paysage

Technical Consultant

Egis Bâtiments Nord

Environmental Consultant

Inddigo SAS

Centre de conservation du Louvre

Liévin, France

Cultural

In 2015, RSHP won an international competition to design a new facility dedicated to the conservation of the Louvre Museum’s collections. The Louvre Conservation Centre is located in Liévin, in northern France - next to the LouvreLens, designed by Sanaa architects –and offers 18,500m² of space dedicated to conservation and restoration.

The building is designed to integrate the storage and preservation of more than 250,000 works of art which are currently distributed between over 60 different sites across France. The chosen proposal brings out an ecologically sensitive, sober, elegant and resolutely contemporary building whose discreet lines are transformed into the landscape.

Taking advantage of the natural slope of the land, the building emerges harmoniously from the landscape, contained by two pairs of concrete walls, reminiscent of Vauban’s French military architecture. Its green roof forms a visual extension towards the Louvre-Lens park and a link with the green arc of the Euralens masterplan.

The building contrasts with the transparent and almost ephemeral building of the Louvre Lens Museum, exploring the potential for expression of what remains hidden and what is revealed. The main facade of the building consists of a wide 525 ft long by 39.3 ft high curtain wall which brings light into the study areas and conservation workspaces. This glazed façade not only allows optimal working conditions for the works to be studied and restored, it also offers the possibility of glimpsing the inner workings of this private establishment hidden behind a garden which slopes gently between the reserves and the street.

A post-beam construction system on an 26.2 by 32.8 ft grid offers great flexibility of use as well as a certain modularity. The workspaces are separated from the reserves by a top-lit central corridor –the internal ‘artworks boulevard’ of the building and its principal circulation space.

Under the superstructure made up of around 900 prefabricated concrete vaults, a succession of reserves is arranged on one level. The respective heights of the spaces decrease from more than 26.2 ft in the west to 9.8 ft in the east, in order to provide a direct response to the needs and formats of the different collections. All services are housed in the twin exterior walls, keeping the collection spaces completely clear.

State-of-the-art climate control technology works in tandem with the thermal mass provided by the concrete envelope of the semi-underground building and its garden roof to ensure extremely stable humidity and temperature conditions for the optimal storage of works of art, while limiting the environmental impact of the building. Water management is also fully integrated into the landscape design, in order to optimize reuse and avoid any risk of flooding.

A generous logistics area allows the loading and unloading of works in complete safety with a view to their transport to the conservation areas.