RSHP - Selected Projects

Selected Projects

Our design solutions are never the same because we analyse every aspect of the site, looking at both the physical and the socioeconomic contexts, to create a building that is an original, but entirely fitting, response.

Graham Stirk, Senior Director

Introduction

About RSHP

RSHP is an international architectural practice based in London. Over the past four decades, since the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Lloyd’s Building in London, the practice has attracted critical acclaim and awards in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia for its inclusive and uplifting architecture.

RSHP brings a wealth of varied architectural experience, working across multiple sectors and diverse project scales. It designs a wide range of building types including office, residential, transport, education, culture, leisure, retail, civic and healthcare as well as masterplan and urban design.

At its heart is a commitment to create and inspire meaningful change. This proposition is anchored in creativity, usability and durability – and infused with three core values: sustainability, innovation and putting people at the centre of everything the practice does.

This rigorous design process can be seen in all of RSHP’s buildings, including The Leadenhall Building, Centre Building at the London School of Economics,3 World Trade Center, the Macallan Distillery and Visitor Centre, Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital, the British Museum World Conservation and Exhibition Centre, International Towers Sydney and PLACE / Ladywell.

Unified, never uniform, we bring uncommon thinking to building projects of all types and scales

No site is too constrained, or project too challenging, to unlock the social and commercial value hidden within it. Difficult is made beautiful at RSHP, with solutions rooted in pragmatism and elevated by a shared passion for design that places the experiences of people first. Across the world, our team ethos is guided by our approach, constantly evolving over decades to deliver

impactful and uplifting architecture that leaves our cities and built environments better than we found them.

Designing for the future is in our DNA

We advocate design that is rooted in thoughtfulness, problem-solving and ingenuity. Our ‘people places’ respond to human needs for interaction and self-expression, and make for ease of update, upgrade and reuse. Beyond sustainable, we aim for regenerative.

A strong social vision

Our distinct make-up makes us different. Social responsibility is at the heart of RSHP, with our professional beliefs enshrined in our constitution since 1990. This includes ownership of our practice by a charitable trust, not individuals, and an ongoing philanthropic commitment determined by our employees.

Four decades of evolution

1977

Our practice is founded as the Richard Rogers Partnership.

2007

We became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, reflecting the contributions of Graham Stirk, designer of the iconic Leadenhall Building (our London base), and Ivan Harbour, designer of the Stirling Prize-winning Maggie’s West London Centre and Madrid Barajas airport’s Terminal 4.

Today as RSHP

Our talented teams of 180 people support an ever-diverse range of projects from our studios in London, Paris, Melbourne, Sydney, Shanghai, Shenzhen and New York.

Sustainability

Our founding constitution is at the forefront of environmentalism. Today, we continually aim to do better and have set ourselves ambitious sustainability goals – the climate emergency poses huge challenges which we have a collective responsibility to address.

We work closely with our clients, partners and leading industry consultants to design environmentally responsible buildings, biodiverse public spaces and cities for the future that consider the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve. We develop innovative, practical solutions for all our projects which minimise their long-term environmental impact, improve allround building performance, sustain rather than pollute, and are adaptable rather than replaceable.

We follow sustainability best practice across the regions in which we work. We are members of the UK Green Building Council, Founding Signatories of UK’s Architects Declare and are committed to the principles of the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge. Members of our sustainability group sit on industry wide panels such as LETI and hold qualifications in environmental and Passivhaus design. Our collaborative projects have received the highest sustainability and wellbeing certifications, including several industry firsts, but our holistic approach to sustainable design ensures we go beyond box ticking.

Our designs for energy-efficient buildings have been part of the practice DNA since the early days, achieved through innovative passive design at site and building scale combined with fabric first principles and advanced MEP and control systems. These have led to schemes such as Daimler Chrysler delivering 70 % savings

International Towers Sydney Sydney, Australia

Hammersmith & Fulham Civic Campus London, United Kingdom

in carbon emissions compared to a typical building. Today, we continue this approach and have recently delivered leading edge designs with significantly reduced operational emissions including at International Towers Sydney, which received a Nabers 5.5 and 6* rating and is carbon neutral in operation; and Geneva Airport Aisle Est and Cardiff Crofts Street housing, both of which are designed to be energy positive in operation.

We also address embodied carbon and circular economy in our projects – reviewing the carbon contribution of structural solutions, material, and system selections early on to understand where the biggest impact can be made in the design. We are working on several schemes which will significantly reduce embodied carbon by efficient and optimised structure, low carbon and hybrid structures and careful material selection. An example of the delivery of a building with this

approach is the LSE Centre Building where a 35% saving in embodied carbon was achieved compared to baseline.

An expanding portfolio of adaptive re-use projects supports our low-carbon and circular design approach, we are currently adapting buildings such as the existing Grade I-listed Hammersmith Town Hall dating between 1939 through to 2003.

In addition to addressing carbon reductions, we also focus our attention on maximising opportunities for landscaping, increasing biodiversity and responsible water use on all projects. Our work places emphasis on the public realm and aims to broaden the benefits of a scheme to the community as well as supporting the health and wellbeing of building occupants.

Geneva Airport Aisle Est Geneva, Switzerland

Cardiff Crofts Street Cardiff, Wales

Project Timeline

2018–2024 Philadelphia, USA 210 South 12th

2018–2021 Cardiff/Wales, UK Crofts Street

2017–2018 London, UK Global Clinic

2016-2021 Roncade, Italy H-FARM

2015–2024 London, UK

Mandarin Oriental Mayfair

2015–2019

Liévin, France Centre de Conservation du Louvre

2015–2019 Washington D.C. , USA International Spy Museum 2014–2019 London, UK LSE Centre Building

2012–2020 Provence, France The Richard Rogers Drawing Gallery

UK Burlington Gate

2014–2016 London, UK PLACE / Ladywell

2013–2018 Lyon, France Lyon Saint-Exupery Airport, Terminal 1

2012–2020 Bogotá, Colombia Atrio – Bogotá Centro Internacional – Phase 1

2012–2018 Speyside/Scotland, UK The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience

2010–2016 Sydney, Australia International Towers 2009–2017 Ningbo, China Ningbo Gateway

2008–2018 Taipei, Taiwan One Park Taipei

2006–2012 London, UK NEO Bankside

2005–2013 Sydney, Australia 8 Chifley

Sydney, Australia Barangaroo South Masterplan

Monte Carlo, Monaco One Monte Carlo

2008–2013 Paris, France Grand Paris 2007–2014 London, UK British Museum WCEC 2006–2018 New York, USA 3 World Trade Center

2006–2016 London, UK The Berkeley Hotel

2006-2013 Scandicci, Italy Scandicci Nuovo Centro Civico

2005–2009 Seville, Spain Campus Palmas Altas 2004–2024 London, UK The Emory 2004–2009 Washington D.C., USA 300 New Jersey Av.

2004–2008 Peñafiel, Spain Bodegas Protos

2003–2011 London, UK

One Hyde Park

2003–2007 Kaohsiung, Taiwan R9 Station

2003–2006 London, UK Wembley Masterplan

2002–2004 London, UK

Mossbourne Community Academy

2001–2008 London, UK

Maggie’s West London

2000–2014 London, UK

The Leadenhall Building

1999–2016 London, UK Chiswick Park

1999–2011 Barcelona, Spain Las Arenas

1999–2003 London, UK Paddington Waterside

1998–2005 Antwerp, Belgium Antwerp Law Courts

1998–2005 Cardiff/Wales, UK

Senedd Cymru, Welsh Parliament

1997–2005

Spain Barajas Airport, Terminal 4

1996–2002 London, UK Broadwick House

1996–1999 London, UK The Millennium Dome

1996–1999 Gifu, Japan Amano Research Laboratories

1995–2001 Tokyo, Japan GRIPS

1993–2000 London, UK Lloyd’s Register of Shipping

1993–1995 Princeton, USA Patscenter Laboratories

1993–1995 Gifu, Japan VR Techno Plaza

1989–1995 Strasbourg, France European Court of Human Rights

1992–1998 Bordeaux, France Bordeaux Law Courts 1992–1994

1995–2003 Kyoto, Japan Minami Yamashiro Elementary School 1994–2000 London, UK Montevetro

1988–2008 London, UK Heathrow Airport, Terminal 5 1987–2005 London, UK Tower Bridge House 1987–1992 London, UK Reuters Data Centre

Themes and Principles

City + Context

RSHP’s contribution to cities is intelligent density, an architecture that is a product of its place, physically, socially and culturally. Our solutions enable old and new buildings to coexist gracefully.

Museum WCEC London, UK

Adaptability

We create open-ended, adaptable frameworks with large, well-serviced and well-lit floors. These spaces accommodate multiple activities today and offer the possibility for a long lifespan of a building and a variety of different uses tomorrow.

Stratford Cross - Financial Conduct Authority London, UK

Integrity

Considered and intentional, we celebrate the act of building and want our places and spaces to be honest, inclusive, inviting and uplifting. Architecture that unites people, rather than creating hierarchies, and is based on a strong and meaningful narrative.

The Leadenhall Building London, UK

British

Community

A building has a footprint that goes far beyond its site boundaries. Architecture has the potential to positively influence life around it. Through engaging with communities, we challenge commonly accepted norms to create unique, bold and meaningful responses that elevate urban quality.

International Towers Sydney, Australia

Economy + Delivery

We create elegance and quality through economies of scale and standarised systems. Our solutions include the innovative use of prefabricated components.

Terminal 4 Barajas Airport Madrid, Spain

Sustainability

We develop innovative, practical solutions for all our projects which minimise their long-term environmental impact, improve all-round building performance, sustain rather than pollute, and –critically – are adaptable rather than replaceable.

LSE Centre Building London, UK

Placemaking

Underlying our approach is the importance we attach to people, civic space and neighbourhoods.

Our work aims to blur the boundaries between the public and private space, between the inside and outside – activating the street and creating spaces which encourage healthy lifestyles.

Regent's View Bethnal Green, London, UK

The Leadenhall Building London, UK

Hammersmith & Fulham Civic Campus London, UK

Chiswick Park London, UK

New Civic Centre Scandicci, Florence, Italy

Barangaroo South Masterplan Sydney, Australia

NEO Bankside London, UK

8 Chifley Square Sydney, Australia

One Monte Carlo Monaco

Montparnasse Masterplan Paris, France

Las Arenas Barcelona, Spain

Sustainability and Wellness

Our founding constitution was at the forefront of environmentalism. We carry on working closely with our clients, partners and leading industry consultants to design environmentally responsible buildings, biodiverse public spaces and cities for the future that consider the health and wellbeing of the communities they serve.

Barangaroo South Masterplan Sydney, Australia

The Leadenhall Building London, UK

London School of Economics Centre Building London, UK

Campus Palmas Altas Seville, Spain

H-FARM Roncade, Italy

2 Redman Place London, UK

The SKYBEAM London, UK

BBVA Tower Mexico City, Mexico

Mossbourne Community Academy London, UK

Maggie’s West London Centre London, UK

Adaptive Reuse

RSHP is highly experienced at delivering complex, inner-city projects within conservation areas and in proximity to heritage assets.

Where a location is heavily constrained, either physically or by legislation, we pride ourselves in our ability to solve problems and innovate within a tightly regulated environment to unlock the full potential of a site.

Las Arenas Barcelona, Spain

The Berkeley Hotel Expansion & Renovation London, UK

Hammersmith Town Hall Extension London, UK

Carlton House Terrace London, UK

260 Eleventh Avenue New York, NY, USA

British Library Extension London, UK

Billingsgate Market Renovation London, UK

British Museum WCEC London, UK

300 New Jersey Avenue Washington, DC, USA

The HUB Toronto, Canada

Lloyd’s of London London, UK

Commercial & Office

The Leadenhall Building

This 51-storey tower opposite Lloyd’s of London rises to a height of 225 m (738 ft), the 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 colour-coded 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.

Location London, UK

Date

2002–2014

Client

The British Land Company plc and Oxford Properties

Site Area

3,500 m²

Lettable Area

56,670 m²

Gross Internal Area

86,500 m²

Structural & Services Engineer Arup

Main Contractor Laing O’Rourke

Landscape

Architect

Edco Design

London

Environmental

Certification BREEAM Excellent

Rating

Awards

2018

RIBA National Award

2017

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

2016

NLA New London Awards Office Buildings Built Winner Award

The Commercial Workplace of the Year category at the BCO London and South East Awards

BCO Prize for the Best Commercial Workplace in the UK

2015

The City of London Building of the Year

BCO Innovation Award

2011

Working (Unbuilt category): NLA Award

For me, The Leadenhall Building is about drawing people in. Yes, it’s impressive; yes, it’s an incredible feat of engineering; but it’s also permeable and accessible in a way so many other buildings in the City are not. It engages people – they feel it belongs to them.

Mike Rayner, Head of Development, Oxford Properties

3 World Trade Center

New York

A soaring

symbol of revitalization of downtown New York City and a testament to the enduring spirit of New Yorkers after 9/11.

Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor

The masterplan for the World Trade Center (WTC) site in Manhattan, New York, was designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind and focuses on the 9/11 Memorial – two reflecting pools in the centre of the site. The Freedom Tower, and towers by RSHP, Bjarke Ingels Group and Maki Associates spiral around the pools in descending height order.

The architectural concept for 3 World Trade Center was realised as part of the wider context of the WTC masterplan, and represents a resolution of the varying requirements of the New York Port Authority and the client, Silverstein Properties.

3 World Trade Center is on a site bounded by Greenwich Street to the west, Church Street to the east, Dey Street to the north and Cortlandt Street to the south. It is opposite the WTC Memorial and Cultural Center, and at the heart of the cluster of buildings which surround the memorial. The brief for 3 World Trade Center outlined the building’s function as the site’s commercial core. The tower had to address the issue of balancing retail and office space, while also complementing and acknowledging the WTC memorial.

The building has an orthogonal relationship to the main space between the proposed memorial water pools. To complement this relationship, the central zone of the building has been reduced in mass as it rises towards the sky.

The effect is a stepped profile which accentuates the building’s verticality, relating to the memorial site – and is sympathetic to the height and positions of the neighbouring buildings. Antennae emphasise the height and slender profile of the building both in the local context, and as part of the Manhattan skyline.

The design includes five trading floors, 54 office floors (totalling 2.1 million sq ft / 195,096 m2 ) and five retail levels, as well as eight mechanical floors which serve the trading and office floors, 37 passenger lifts and two principal stairwells. The lower part of the building – the ‘podium building’ – contains the tower’s retail element and the trading floors. The upper levels of the tower hold the office spaces. ‘Live’, active façades, at street level, enable the free-flowing movement of shoppers. There are two belowgrade retail levels and three retail levels above the ground floor, served by two lifts and four stairwells.

To maximise sustainability in terms of the building’s day-to-day functioning, similar ‘green design’ features as those included in the design of 7 World Trade Center have been incorporated. The design team has ensured that energy use and costs are significantly reduced compared to typical Manhattan office buildings.

The design will aspire to LEED ‘Gold’ Certification for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design from the US Green Buildings Council.

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8 Chifley

Sydney

8 Chifley embodies the evolution of modern workplace design by creating collaborative, connected communities of a type not seen before in Australia.

Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, CEO & Managing Director, Mirvac

8 Chifley is a premium grade office building in Sydney, Australia. The scheme – developed in conjunction with Lippmann Partnership –comprises of a 30-storey office building situated in the Central Business District (CBD) of Sydney. The overall concept was for a development that provides functional quality offices while creating opportunities for connectivity between occupiers from different parts of the building.

The office spaces across 21 levels are connected by a series of adaptable two- and three-storey interlinked vertical ‘villages’. These villages (ranging from 1,800 to 2,600 m2 ) provide the building with a high degree of flexibility. They also create a variety of individual workspace environments which allow privacy and interaction between individuals. This hollowing out of floor space within the tower allows the redistribution of space higher up the building where better views can be enjoyed. The villages are interspersed with full floor office levels which allow for multiple villages to be connected.

The building has been designed specifically for its prominent north-facing site. The design creates an environment in tune with demands of the contemporary office lifestyle, where technology is the driver, and the distinction between the office and home is blurred or overlapping.

Location

Sydney, Australia

Date

2006–2013

Client

Mirvac

Developments

Site Area

1,580 m²

Net Lettable Area 19,000 m²

Total Floor Space 27,000 m²

Storeys

34

Construction

Cost

$160 million

Co-Architect

Lippmann Partnership

Structural and Services

Engineers

Arup

Landscape

Architect

Aspect Studios

Contractor Mirvac

Constructions

Environmental Certification

6 Star Green Star

Awards

2015

Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall

Innovation and Excellence

Awards – Best Sustainable Development (New Buildings)

Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall

Innovation and Excellence Awards –Best Office Development

Property Council of Australia / Rider Levett Bucknall

Innovation and Excellence Awards –Development of the Year

2014

AIA National Award for Commercial Architecture

Sustainability Awards: Large Commercial Category

UDIA Retail / Commercial Development of the Year

Sydney Design Award Commercial –Constructed

AIA NSW Award for Best Commercial Architecture

COLORBOND® Award for Sustainable Architecture –Commendation

Sir Arthur G Stephenson Award

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat: Best Tall Building in Asia and Australasia –Finalist

The latest technology and materials have been used to help modify the internal environment. This includes louvred sunscreens on the north-east and west façades; a series of midand roof-level, landscaped podiums which incorporate break-out areas for occupiers; external solar shading incorporating tint-free glass which creates a truly transparent building both internally and externally; and an internal environment modified by a displacement floor system, chilled beams and an exposed concrete soffit.

A five-storey open space at street level creates a grand entrance to the building as well as creating a new, significant area of public space which complements the existing, adjoining space of the Chifley Square precinct.

Central to the building’s sense of connectivity and community is the elevated ‘village square’ on the 18th floor set within a three-storey void. This area provides a focal point for all occupants of the building, comprising an entire floor of multifunctional, landscaped space.

The building’s carbon emissions are at least 50% less than those of a ‘typical’ Sydney CBD office. It also achieves a high degree of sustainability through effective water reduction, reduced emissions of CFCs and the use of sustainablysourced materials. A balanced approach to these areas resulted in a 6 Star Green Star rating, the highest benchmark achievable in Australia.

With its unapologetic modern façade, a jagged profile in an elegant concrete frame ... oozing an airy spirit full of honesty but not lacking in bravado.

Don Barker, Architecture Week

88 Wood Street demonstrates the potential for speculative commercial development that does not compromise on quality and enhances the public domain. The site was formerly occupied by a 1920s telephone exchange – delays in securing the demolition of this building, combined with the onset of an economic recession in the 1990s, led to the cancellation of a scheme for a prestige banking headquarters. A larger scheme was designed in 1993–94, with speculative letting in mind.

This building is arranged as three linked blocks of office accommodation that step up from eight storeys on Wood Street, where the context includes two listed buildings, to 14 and finally 18 storeys to the west, responding to the taller built topography towards London Wall. The connections between blocks provides very a large floor area that can be easily subdivided. By using the extensive basement of the telephone exchange for the building plant, roof levels are kept largely free.

The office wings are constructed of in-situ concrete, contrasting with the lightweight, steel-framed service towers. The use of brilliant colour enhances their impact – air intakes and extracts at street level are also brightly coloured, contrasting with the neutrality of the occupied floors. The façades of the main office floors are glazed from floor to ceiling to maximise daylight and views – in addition, levels 8, 12 and 16 lead directly onto roof terraces with spectacular views over the City.

Though built to a strict commercial budget, 88 Wood Street contains many innovative elements. Its triple-glazed façade is formed of single panels of highly transparent float glass. The inner faces of the external panes have a low emissivity coating which further reduces solar gain, while the cavity between the double glazed units and the third panel is fitted with motorised, integral horizontal blinds with perforated slats. Photocells on the roof monitor light conditions and adjust the angle of the blinds, thus minimising glare, heat gain and energy consumption.

Location London, UK

Date

1993–1999

Client Daiwa Europe Properties

Cost

£52 million

Area

33,073 m²

Structural

Engineer

Ove Arup & Partners

Services

Engineer

Ove Arup & Partners

Quantity

Surveyor Gardiner & Theobald

Project Manager

D J Williams & Associates Ltd

Construction

Manager

Laing

Management Ltd

Main Contractor

Kajima / Laing

Management

Joint Venture

Fit-Out

Contractor

Kajima / Hazama Joint Venture

Landscape

Architect

Edward Hutchison

Awards

2002

The American Institute of Architects

London / UK Chapter Excellence in Design Award Winner 2000

RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist

Civic Trust Award

Royal Fine Art Commission Trust Award

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Bovis / Lend Lease Award for Best Architectural Exhibit

Campus Palmas Altas Seville

Abengoa is an international technology company whose primary activity focuses on sustainable development in the infrastructure, environment and energy sectors. The scheme comprises seven buildings, five of which are occupied by Abengoa and the remaining two by tenants who have synergies with the client.

The design creates a more compact and urban in character development than conventional business parks, but is also particularly suited to the extreme summertime conditions prevalent in the south of Spain. In total, the buildings provide approximately 47,000 m² of office space across highly compact floorplates in self-contained structures between 3–4 storeys in height. The buildings are arranged on either side of a central space which is made up of a sequence of interconnected plazas. The central space unifies all seven buildings and, because of the stepped arrangement, creates a sequence of discrete spaces each of which has slightly different characteristics. In this way, a variety of outdoor spaces ranging from patios to sunken courtyards and terraces, are created which, depending on the prevalent weather conditions, can be comfortably occupied by the buildings’ tenants virtually all year-round.

The organisation of these spaces aims to reduce the heat load on the building fabric and avoid the creation of ‘heat islands’. The visual mass is broken down by the landscape treatment of the spaces in-between buildings.

Colours have been chosen that reflect those found in traditional glazed Andalucian tiles. The structure of each building is formed from in sitú concrete with pre-cast elements used for exposed edge cantilevers. The façades are of glass with a ‘floating’ horizontal transom of corrugated aluminium creating a small glazed panel at floor level. Fixed glass louvres of varying densities (depending on orientation) shade the glazing.

Energy-saving criteria are applied across the whole design – from the site layout and the orientation of the campus to the geometry of the buildings themselves, the design of the building envelope and the selection of materials. The design of individual buildings and the linear arrangement of all the buildings maximises self-shading, thereby reducing the amount of secondary shading required.

Additional measures include photovoltaic panels, a tri- generation plant, hydrogen batteries and chilled beams. It is hoped that the development will become a model for more sustainable office complexes in the future.

Abengoa staff now enjoy a modern and social environment that complies with the company’s aspirations for sustainable development.

Arup Journal, January 2011

Location

Seville, Spain

Date

2005–2009

Client Abengoa

Area

96,000 m²

Co-Architect

Vidal y Asociados arquitectos (VAa)

Services Engineer

Arup

Structural Engineer

Arup

Environmental Certification

LEED Platinum Awards 2010 American Institute of Architects UK Chapter, Excellence in Design Award

RIBA European Award

Prime Property Awards: Best

Sustainable Real Estate Project, Europe

Chiswick Park London

The move here would make a fascinating businesssociological case study because it really did reinforce what you can do with the right working environment.

Tim Richards, CEO & Founder Vue Entertainment

The spectacular parkland forming the heart of the site is public space and includes an open-air performance area, a lake and nature reserve. The site is located off Chiswick High Road in West London, close to Gunnersbury Underground Station. The award-winning project offers 185,000 m² of office space spread across 12 buildings, including a restaurant and bar. Within each building, provision is made for car parking and plant.

The buildings at Chiswick are standardised, using off-site construction technology, securing economies of time and cost. The project reflects the conviction of developer Stanhope that high quality can be achieved using standardised components and construction management procurement. The aim was to produce a development that is highly distinctive yet buildable within commercial constraints. The office buildings contain highly flexible space that can be configured in open plan or cellular form.

The clarity of the building plan – a central core surrounded by uninterrupted 18 m-deep office plates – is assisted by the use of external escape stairs which contribute to the scheme’s distinctive identity. The central atria provide views out to the landscaped park and bring light into the heart of each building. The energy strategy is designed for economy and environmental responsibility – fixed external aluminium louvres and retractable external fabric blinds (activated by light sensors) together shade 90 % of the buildings’ surfaces. This significant reduction of solar gain makes the use of a displacement ventilation system possible –Chiswick Park’s energy efficiency results in lowrunning costs in the long term.

Location London, UK

Date

1999–2015

Client Stanhope plc

Cost

£ 130 million

Gross Internal Area

185,000 m²

Site Area 13 hectares

Structural & Services

Engineer Arup

Quantity

Surveyor

Davis Langdon / Mott Green & Wall

Civil Engineer

Laing O’Rourke

Façade Consultant

Josef Gartner

Main Contractor

Bovis Lendlease

Landscape

Architect

W8 Landscape

Architects and Urban Planners

/Charles Funke Associates

Environmental

Certification

BREEAM Excellent

(Bldg 6, 7, 8, 9)

Awards

2019 Green Apple Environment Award

2011–2016

FT’s Top 50 Great Places to Work

2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

UK’s 50 Best Workplaces

2007

UK’s Healthiest Workplace: Yakult Healthy Workplace Awards

2006

Bldg5: Office Agents Society Best Speculative Building Outside Central London

2003 RIBA Award

2002 Civic Trust Award

BBVA México Tower

Mexico City

Location

Mexico City, Mexico

Date

2009–2016

Client

BBVA México

Construction

Cost

$ 650 million

Site Area

6,620 m²

Total Area

188,777 m²

Office Area

78,800 m²

Architect

RSHP / LegoRogers

Structural

Engineer

Arup / Colinas de Buen SA de CV

Plumbing

Engineer

Arup / Garza

Maldonado

Electrical

Engineer

Arup / DEC Group

HVAC Engineer

Arup / DYPRO

Lighting Consultant

Fisher Marantz

Cost Consultant

INPROS

Project Manager

Jones Lang LaSalle

Environmental Certification

LEED Platinum Awards

2018 RIBA Award for International Excellence

2017

ArchDaily Office Building of the Year

2016 World Architecture Festival –Completed Office Buildings –Shortlist

IStructe Award for Commercial or Retail Structures

American Architecture Prize – Institutional Architecture Bronze Medal

ENR Global Best Projects Awards –Office Category –Award of Merit

Bienal Nacional de Arquitectura Mexicana, Silver Medal

MCHAP Awards –Nomination

Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat –Nomination

A new urban landmark on the skyline of Mexico City, the tower marks the gateway to the Paseo de la Reforma from Chapultepec Park. The BBVA México Tower is the result of a collaboration between architectural practices RSHP and LegoRogers. In bringing together their different architectural languages yet common values, they have created a building that is both contextual and distinctive.

Mexico City is built on an ancient dried lake and is prone to severe earthquakes, so an innovative engineering approach was needed to reduce the risk of tremors. A ‘fuse’ was incorporated into each of the externally expressed structural beams. Its design focuses the impact of an earthquake by absorbing the shock to protect the rest of the structure. This structural solution makes the tower uniquely safe for a building of its height.

To combat solar gain from Mexico’s strong sunlight, a lattice façade system, (which evokes traditional screens or ‘celosias’) shades the exterior of the building allowing daylight in, and views out.

The building is based on the reinterpretation of traditional office space organisation, offering a variety of new flexible working environments for all users. Sky gardens every nine floors create outdoor space within the tower and provide meeting and break-out areas where people can enjoy spectacular views. Consequently, the architecture promotes a sense of community and interaction between staff.

The 50 storey tower provides approximately 78,800m² of prime office space for BBVA Bancomer and can accommodate approximately 4,500 employees.

This building is the most sophisticated, highestquality building in Mexico. It’s a signature building for the bank, for the expansion of their business in North American markets

Nick Billotti, Chairman of Turner International

International Towers Sydney Sydney

The towers will 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.

Avtar Lotay, Director of RSHP Australia

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 façades, 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 precinct-wide 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.

Site Area C3 Office: 107,563 m²

Total: 116,286 m²

Site Area C4 Office: 96,965 m²

Total: 99,656 m²

Site Area C5 Office: 84,799 m²

Total: 90,524 m² Collaborating Architect Lendlease Design

2015 Property Council of Australia Awards – RLB

Australian Development of the Year

Property Council of Australia

Awards – Eagle Lighting Australia Award for Best Workplace

Project

Property Council of Australia

Awards – WSP Award for Best Sustainable Development –New Buildings

Property Council of Australia

Awards – Liberty Steel Award for Best Mixed Use Development

Property Council of Australia Awards –Tenderfield People’s Choice Award

Lloyd’s of London London

Lloyd’s of London is the world’s greatest insurance market. It had moved its dealing room twice in 50 years and wanted a building that would provide for its needs well into the 21st century.

It was also imperative that Lloyd’s could continue their operations unhindered during the rebuilding operation, which almost inevitably involved the demolition of the existing 1928s building. The competition for a new building was won on the basis not of an architectural proposal but of a strategy for the future of this key City institution.

The practice proposed a building where the dealing room could expand or contract, according to the needs of the market, by means of a series of galleries around a central space. To maximise space, services are arranged on the perimeter. As the architectural form of the building evolved, particular attention was paid to its impact on the surrounding area, especially on the listed 19th century Leadenhall Market. As a result, Lloyd’s

became a complex grouping of towers, almost Gothic in feeling – an effect enhanced by the height of the external plant-room towers.

Lloyd’s is one of the great architectural achievements of the 1980s, one of the buildings which confirmed the practice’s position in the front rank of international architects. It has emerged as one of the greatest modern British buildings, one which balances technical efficiency with architectural expressiveness to produce an effect which might be called highly romantic and judged a very positive addition to the London skyline.

The building was Grade I listed in 2011, the youngest structure to obtain this status. English Heritage described it as “universally recognized as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch”.

Date

1978–1986

Client Lloyd’s of London

Construction

Cost

£ 163 million

Area

55,000 m²

Structural and Services

Engineer

Ove Arup & Partners

Quantity

Surveyor

Monk Dunstone Associates

Lighting Consultant

Friedrich Wagner of Lichttechnische Planung

Main Contractor Bovis Construction Ltd Awards

2011

Grade I listing by English Heritage

1988

RIBA Regional Award

PA Award for Innovation in Building Design and Construction

Eternit 8th International Prize for Architecture (Special Mention)

1987

Financial Times

‘Architecture at Work’ Award

Civic Trust Award

Concrete Society Commendation

The building is still modern, innovative and unique – it has really stood the test of time just like the market that it sits within.

Richard Ward, Chief Executive Lloyd’s of London

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping

There cannot be a more beautifully accomplished medium-rise office building in London.

Jay Merrick, The Independent

The brief for Lloyd’s Register’s London headquarters represented a major design challenge – of building new office space on a tight urban site, in an architecturally sensitive conservation area. The site is defined by existing buildings on two sides, including the Grade IIlisted 71 Fenchurch Street constructed for Lloyd’s Register in 1901 and now extensively restored and incorporated into the new headquarters. The building steps up from six to 14 storeys of office space with two basements, covering a total of 24,000 m2. To respond to the shape of the site, the new building is structured around tapered floor-plates, creating a fan-shaped grid around two atria spaces. These atria, and internal and external courtyards, allow daylight to penetrate the heart of the building.

Clarity of architectural language is the key to this development, where the function of all constituent elements is celebrated, revealing the secrets of their manufacture and operation. Service cores are expressed as towers – two primary circulation cores face the churchyard while secondary cores to the rear house toilets, goods lifts, staircases, and the main services risers. Highly transparent glazing offers instant legibility – people using the fully glazed wallclimber lifts and stairs animate the building’s exterior. The glazed façade forms part of an integrated cooling and heating system, which enables the building to achieve a 33 % reduction in carbon dioxide emissions compared with conventional air conditioning.

Location London, UK

Date

1993–2000

Client

Lloyd’s Register

Cost

£ 70 million

Area

34,000 m²

Structural

Engineer

Anthony Hunt

Associates

Services

Engineer

Ove Arup & Partners

Landscape

Architect

Edward

Hutchison

Planning

Consultant

Montagu Evans

Awards

2002

World Architecture

Award for Best Commercial Building in the World

Civic Trust Award

RIBA Award / Stirling Prize

Shortlist

2001

Aluminium Imagination Awards –Commendation

2000

Concrete Society Certificate of Excellence

‘Building Category’

Civic

Antwerp Law Courts

The new law courts for the Flemish city of Antwerp is one of the practice’s major public buildings of the early 21st century. Like many projects by the practice, it reflects a vision of the city as a humane and democratic place with a commitment to the regeneration of urban life.

The site for the law courts is at the Bolivarplaats, on the southern edge of Antwerp’s central area, where the urban fabric is broken by a massive motorway interchange, cutting off the boulevard that leads into the city. The new building is one of the catalysts for the practice’s long-term masterplan of ‘the new south’ of the city. The new building, designed in conjunction with Belgian architects VK Studio, is conceived both as a gateway to the city and as a link across the motorway between the city centre and the Schelde River.

It houses eight distinct civil and criminal courts and includes 36 courtrooms plus offices, chambers for judges and lawyers, library and dining room, with a great public hall (the space traditionally known as the ‘Salle des Pas Perdus’) linking six radiating wings of accommodation. This space is capped by a striking roof structure, crystalline in form, rising above the paraboloid roofs that cover the courtrooms.

A low-energy services strategy is fundamental to this project – natural light is used to optimum effect, natural ventilation is supplemented by low-velocity ventilation for the hearing rooms, and rainwater is recycled. The building, straddling a major highway, looks out to a large area of parkland – the design creates ‘fingers’ of landscapes that extend right into the heart of the building. The landscape is configured and planted to shield the building from the noise and pollution of the motorway.

Location Antwerp, Belgium

Date

1998–2005

Client

Regie der Gebouwen

Cost

£ 86 million

Gross Internal Area

77,000 m²

Cost / m²

£ 1,115

Co-Architect

VK Architects

Structural

Engineer

Arup / Bureau Van Kerckhove

Services

Engineer

Arup / Bureau Van Kerckhove

Quantity

Surveyor

Bureau Van Kerckhove

Main Contractor

Interbuild / KBC / Artesia

Lighting Consultant

Arup

Landscape

Architect

Wirtz International BV Awards

2008 Chicago Athaneum International Architecture Award

RIBA European Award

2007 RICS Awards

Regeneration Category: Commended

2006

Staalbouwprijs

2004 Civic Trust Award Commendation

Antwerp Law Courts has been welcomed as an iconic and sustainable building that meets the aspirations of its users. The striking roof structure will become a landmark for future generations. Pierre Beniers, Project Manager, Regie der Gebouwen

Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament

The Senedd is acclaimed by both Assembly members and the general public alike as being open, accessible and sustainable.

Richard Wilson, Head of The Senedd Building Project Team

Location Cardiff, Wales

Date

1998–2005

Client National Assembly for Wales

Cost

£ 41 million

Gross Internal Area

5,308 m²

Structural

Engineer Arup

Environmental Consultant

BDSP Partnership

Project Manager Schal

Landscape Architect Gillespies LLP

Environmental Certification

BREEAM Excellent Awards

2007 Civic Trust Award Chicago Athenaeum International Award

2006

RIBA Stirling Prize Building of the Year Shortlist

RIBA Award National

The election of the Welsh National Assembly in 1999, was a turning point in the history of Wales. Its home, Cardiff’s former docklands, is a striking addition to the local landscape and a statement of faith in the regeneration process. The Senedd building embodies democratic values of openness and participation, while its progressive environmental agenda establishes a new standard for public buildings in Britain.

The idea of openness is exemplified by the transparency of the building. Public spaces are elevated on a slate-clad plinth and cut away to allow daylight to penetrate the administrative spaces at lower level. A light-weight, gently undulating roof shelters both internal and external spaces, pierced by the protruding extension of the Debating Chamber. A large circular space at the heart of the building, the Chamber is defined by the dramatic roof made from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) rated Western red cedar timber, which is drawn down from the roof above to form its enclosure.

The Senedd also includes exhibition and education spaces, a café, committee and meeting rooms, press facilities, offices for the principal officers of the Parliament and a members’ lounge.

The servicing strategy responds to the varying demands of the internal spaces – air-conditioning is supplied in the debating chamber while the public lobby is naturally ventilated. Heat exchangers capitalise on the potential of the ground as a cooling mechanism, while the thermal mass of the plinth tempers fluctuations in the internal environment. In this way, the design achieves significant energy savings compared to traditional buildings.

Hard landscaping, together with an avenue of trees, creates a public space around the Senedd and completes the jigsaw of new development in this part of Cardiff Bay.

Culture & Leisure

Centre de Conservation du Louvre à Liévin

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 160 m long by 12 m 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 8 by 10-metre 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 8 m in the west to 3 m 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.

Location Liévin, France

Date

2015– 2019

Client Musée du Louvre

Région Hauts de France

Construction cost

€ 38.7 million

Net area

18 500 m²

Cost Consultant

VPEAS SAS

Landscape Architects

Mutabilis Paysage

Technical Consultant

Egis Bâtiments

Nord

Environmental Consultant

Inddigo SAS

The architects have succeeded in taking the specific needs of properly preserving and accessing the Louvre’s collections, and turning them into a first-class architectural creation

Jean-Luc

Martinez, President-Director of the Musée du Louvre

The Berkeley Hotel Entrance

The Berkeley Hotel has the charm and character of an English country residence, well-loved and looked after. As essentially residential in character, the hotel is a sequence of connected spaces and rooms with a comfortable and familiar scale and ambience. Over the years, additions and changes have been made and in 2007 planning permission was granted for RSHP’s designs for a new extension along Knightsbridge and a number of smaller-scale additions throughout the Hotel.

The first of these interventions to be realised is a new entrance canopy with glazed pavilions flanking the entrance doors which will extend the Blue Bar and the Caramel Room. RSHP’s work is defined by a clear structural approach which is evident in the composition. The canopy is supported by a series of expressed carbonfibre beams formed to describe their structural diagram.

The beams and glazing system is supported by the existing building and a series of stainless steel columns – the composition is set out on a stone base. The glazing for the canopy and flank walls

The detail is amazing –nothing has been spared.

Paddy McKillen, Owner, The Maybourne Group

Location London, UK

Date

2006–2016

Client

Maybourne

Group Plc

Area

543m2

Structural

Engineer

Expedition

Engineering

Façade

Consultant

Arup Façades

Contractor

Mastercraft

Manufacturer

Bellapart

Services

Engineer

Ernest Griffin & Son

Access

Consultant

Vin Goodwin

Associates

Lighting

Consultant

Speirs Major

Landscape

Architects

Gillespies

has a honeycomb insert which reflects light at night and allows for a sense of light, shadow and movement beyond, giving veiled views through the glass. The stone base integrates steps, a rising platform and series of sculpted timber masts forming a protective screen. This entrance design uses traditional and new materials and their composition is unique to The Berkeley.

The Iconic Blue Bar with its memorable interior is retained, and the Caramel Room has been refurbished with a new interior concept by Robert Angell Design International. With the addition of a new glazed pavilion to each space, their frontage is renewed and gives presence to the street. Internally, the spaces feel more integrated and have a more settled sense of space.

Throughout the works, the hotel remains operational. The various parts of the project weave together into the existing building to make a greater whole, reinvigorating this grand dame of hotels for the future.

Bodegas Protos

This new winery, which started as a project for the future, is today the flagship upon which we build our present while we search for the highest quality in our wines. It allows us to define our future with greater clarity.

Edmundo Bayon, President, Bodegas Protos

Bodegas Protos is a wine cooperative in a small village in the Ribera del Duero region of Spain, where almost everyone in the village has a stake in the winery. In response to increasing demand for Protos wines in recent years, a new building to extend and modernise production facilities has been built.

The winery is an industrial building whose design and arrangement follows the process of wine making, from the harvesting of the grapes to the bottling of the wines. Most of the winery’s internal area is underground, where the thermal mass of the ground is used to keep the wine cool, with the production area at ground level beneath a dramatic vaulted wooden roof.

This building connects via an underground link to the original winery and also provides customdesigned areas for tastings and special events, as well as administrative functions. Because the building had to be cost efficient, the architect chose to use materials found locally. Timber parabolic

arches were used as the main structure, taking advantage of the forms ability to carry large loads on very slim beams.

Terracotta roofing tiles are common to the architecture of the region, and the stone that forms the walls is waste material from a local quarry. The use of traditional materials such as wood and stone and the sensitive use of form to break down the scale of the building has resulted in a winery which complements the surrounding traditional architecture style of Peñafiel.

With building work completed in September 2008, Bodegas Protos processed its first harvest of grapes from the vineyards surrounding Peñafiel during October 2008. Over a fifteen-day period, tractor-pulled trailers carrying the grape crop were driven up the ramp to the processing area on the south side of the building and unloaded into vats for fermentation. The facility is now providing capacity to process one million kilos of grapes a year.

Location

Valladolid, Spain

Date

2003–2008

Client Bodegas Protos

Cost £ 15 million

Gross Internal Area

19,450 m²

Co-Architects

Alonso Balaguer Arquitectos Asociados

Structural Engineer

Arup Boma Agroindus

Services Engineer

BDSP

Grupo JG

Agroindus Awards

2009

RIBA European Award

Shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize

Chicago Atheneum Award

World Architecture Festival –Production, Energy and Recycling Civic Trust Award

Conde Nast Traveller

IStructe Award

ID & D Gourmet

Category Istructe Award

British Museum WCEC

London

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.

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 floorloading capability and the building’s most stable environmental conditions are found. Over 5,000 m² of new storage space means the museum can now house its entire, disparate collection at the Bloomsbury site. 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 connects at ground level to the Great Court for easy public access, replacing the Reading Room as the Museum’s largest temporary exhibition space, providing a total area of 1100 m² 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 37m-long reconstructed Viking ship.

Location London, UK

Date

2007–2014

Client

The British Museum

Area 18,000 m²

Construction

Cost

£90 million

Shell + Core + Fixed furniture and equipment

Structural Engineer Ramboll UK

Services Engineer Arup

Landscape

Design

Gillespies LLP

Quantity

Surveyor

AECOM

Project Manager

AECOM

Strategic

Planning & Consultation

Strategy

The Green Brain

Planning

Consultants

Montagu Evans

Townscape Consultant

Francis Golding

Construction Manager

Mace

Awards

2017

RIBA Stirling Prize

Shortlist

RIBA National Award

RIBA London Award

2015

RICS Awards –Best Building in the Tourism and Leisure Sector

The WCEC is a transformative addition to the British Museum ... a development that will continue to benefit the Museum and the world for many years to come.

Neil MacGregor, Director of The British Museum

International Spy Museum

The International Spy Museum forms part of RSHP’s masterplan for L’Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C., and creates a new home for the privately-owned Spy Museum previously located in a 19th Century building in Penn Quarter.

As a cultural building, The International Spy Museum generates activity and interest within a neighbourhood noted for large-scale government office buildings. Consequently, the new Spy Museum acts as a catalyst for the regeneration of 10th Street, initiating and reinforcing the intentions of the National Capital Planning Commission SW Ecodistrict Plan.

Drawing its inspiration from the techniques of espionage, the building ‘hides in plain sight’. Its exhibition space is contained in a dramatic, louvred ‘black box’ with inclined translucent walls, articulated by bright red fins. The pleated glass veil, which is fritted on the south-orientated panels to reduce glare and reflections, is suspended from red columns on the outside of the black box.

This veil encloses an atrium, a ground-floor lobby and circulation in the form of a grand staircase. Behind this veil, the prominent façade of the box angles out over the street and public space to one side, breaking the building line to create a disruptive landmark at the crest of 10th Street, visible from the National Mall at one end and Banneker Park at the other. This provides a continuation of public realm from 10th Street through to the new office buildings within the plaza.

Above the double-height lobby, and the three floors of exhibition and theatre space contained within the box, are two further floors of setback office and event space, inconspicuous from street level, with a roof terrace giving views across Washington, D.C.’s cityscape and waterfront. Lifts at the rear on the building serve all levels, and visitors are invited to pass down the atrium grand staircase above street level and exit the museum via the ground-floor retail area, contributing life to the façade.

Location Washington, D.C.

USA

Date

2015–2019

Client The Malrite Company

Client Representative The JBG Companies Area

140,000 sq ft

Architect of Record

Hickok Cole

Architects

Structural Engineer

SK&A MD

M&E Engineer

Vanderweil

Façade Engineer

Eckersley

O’Callaghan

Landscape

Architect

Michael Vergason

Landscape

Architects Ltd

Exhibition Design

Gallagher & Associates

Main Contractor

Clark Construction

Awards

2022 American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) IDEAS² Award – Merit Award

2020 IES Illumination Award

2019

NAIOP DC|MD Best Institutional Facility

ENR Best Cultural / Worship Project

ABC Metro Washington and Virginia Chapters Excellence in Construction Awards – Award of Excellence

The Commission [of Fine Arts] members commended the project team for an exceptional design and program, observing that the museum will contribute to the transformation of this part of the city.

Thomas E. Luebke, US Commission of Fine Arts

Las Arenas

Location Barcelona, Spain

Date

2000–2011

Client Metrovacesa (originally Sacresa)

Gross internal area

105,816 m²

Bullring Area

46,973 m²

Eforum Area

5,500 m²

Parking Area

53,343 m²

Co-Architect

Alonso Balaguer

y Arquitectos

Asociados

Structural Engineer

Expedition Engineering and BOMA

Services Engineer

JG and BDSP

Quantity Surveyor TG3

Retail Consultant

Sociedad Centros

Comerciales

España (S.C.C.E)

Main Contractor

Dragados Awards

2013 World Architecture News Adaptive

Re-use Award –Shortlist

2012 Civic Trust Award

RIBA International Award

2011 Award for Arts or Entertainment Structures

Structural Award

The strong civic and cultural role which the building played in the life of Barcelona over nearly a century led to a decision by the city council not to demolish the original façade of Las Arenas – a late 19th Century bullring. The design has created an open and accessible entrance to the new building at street level. In addition, an adjacent building – the ‘Eforum’ – will provide retail and restaurants at ground and first-floor levels, with four levels of offices above.

The approach has involved the most advanced architectural and engineering technologies to re-establish the original building as a visually striking landmark for the city. The most spectacular aspect of the intervention is the inclusion of a 100 metre-diameter habitable ‘dish’ with a 76 metre-diameter domed roof, floating over the façade of the bullring and structurally independent from it to cover the various activities taking place below. This ‘plaza in the sky’ incorporates large terraces around the

perimeter with space for cafés and restaurants with stunning views over the city. New plazas are also created at street level to provide connections with the existing metro station and neighbouring Parc Joan Miró. The development links strongly to the nearby Fira de Barcelona – a key European business exhibition venue attracting 3.5 million visitors annually– and the neighbouring districts of Eixample and SantsMontjuic.

RSHP set out to re-establish Las Arenas as a 21st Century landmark for the city. This involved retaining the entire existing façade as well as reintegrating what had become an isolated traffic island into the city fabric. The retrofit includes a new leisure and retail development within this façade, and has also created significant areas of public realm both in the new dome structure –with its 360-degree roof terrace rising above the existing wall – and at the surrounding street level, which will help to revitalise this part of Barcelona.

Las Arenas had more than 300,000 visitors in its opening weekend … The rooftop public viewing platform has been a huge hit … Families seem to have incorporated it into their evening stroll

Steve Rose, The Guardian

The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience

Our plan for the estate includes a contemporary distillery that embodies the international style of The Macallan and builds on the brand’s tradition of quality and craftsmanship.

Ian Curle, Chief Executive, The Edrington Group

The new Macallan Distillery will be set into the landscape of the estate that has been responsible for creating the single malt whisky since 1824. The Macallan is already established as one of the most famous whisky makers in the world and wanted a new centre that could reveal the production processes and welcome visitors while remaining sensitive to the beautiful surrounding countryside.

The new building will provide a facility capable of increased production and also allow for easy expansion in years to come. Internally, a series of production cells are arranged in a linear format with an open-plan layout revealing all stages of the process at once. These cells are reflected above the building in the form of a gently undulating roof, formed by a timber gridshell. Grass-covered peaks will rise and fall from The Macallan estate grounds, signalling to approaching visitors the activities housed beneath. Set into the naturally sloping contours of the site, the design makes direct references to ancient Scottish earthworks.

Easter Elchies House – an original 18th Century Highland manor house – must remain the primary focus of the estate and so the main access to the new visitor centre will begin near this building. The estate is as important to The Macallan as the buildings that make up the distillery and so a subtle manipulation of the terrain will be used to reveal the built form and control views without appearing forced or overtly grand.

The great 18th Century garden designers knew the importance of flow and movement in a large landscape; that parks should be experienced on a meandering journey.

The new distillery project will celebrate the whisky-making process as well as the landscape that has inspired it.

Location Speyside, UK

Date

2012–2018

Client The Edrington

Group

Area 14,800 m²

Construction

Cost

£75 million

Shell + Core + £40 m process costs + £7 m visitor experience

Landscape

Architect Gillespies LLP

Services

Engineer Arup

Structural

Engineer

Arup

Lighting Design

Speirs Major

Awards

2019

RIAS Award

RIAS Special Category Award – Wood for Good / Scottish Forestry Award for the Best Use of Timber

ArchDaily Award 2019 –Best Industrial Architecture Project

2018

Structural Timber Award – Winners of Winners

Structural Timber Award – Engineer of the Year

Structural Timber Award – Highly Commended Project of the Year

Scottish Design Award – Leisure / Culture Building Project

Education

Minami Yamashiro Elementary School

We are delighted with the elegance of the design.

Yoichi

Hashimoto, Mayor

Minami Yamashiro Village

The design for Minami Yamashiro School was not only to provide teaching facilities for young children but also community centre facilities – a radical departure from the Japanese norm.

The new building has been conceived as ‘a big house’, offering not only day-time schooling but evening classes and life-long learning for the community’s increasing adult population.

The heart of the school is a large common hall that mediates between the outdoor playing fields and two levels of flexible classroom spaces arranged within a repetitive framed grid of 8.1 m x 8.1 m. This multi-level, top-lit space is similarly organised within the expressed structural grid and contains all circulation and classroom breakout spaces.

Specific spaces for art, science and music classes are grouped at the lower level. An adjacent gymnasium / village hall building frames the approach to the school, and a swimming pool is provided as well. The stainless steel-clad roof consists of a row of north-facing skylights which are designed to bring as much indirect sunlight as possible into the interior spaces. The wall colours express circulation and the ‘character’ of various internal spaces, defining different areas and functions.

This project uses simple, durable, lowmaintenance materials to achieve elegant results. The building has a strength of its own, yet can be read within the classic Japanese constructional tradition which has long inspired modern architects.

Location Kyoto, Japan

Date

1995–2003

Client

Minami Yamashiro Village

Cost

¥2.26 billion

£11.8 million

Site Area

24,400 m²

Total Building Area

10,200 m²

Structural

Engineer

Umezawa Structural Engineers

Services

Engineer

Setsubi-Sekkei 21 Six Squares

Landscape

Architect

Equipe Espace

Cost Consultant

Dan Surveyors Office

Contractor

Asanuma Corporation Awards

2004

RIBA Worldwide Winner Research Institute of Educational Facilities Chairman Award

LSE Centre Building London

RSHP’s design is inspired by LSE’s core values: Collaboration, Excellence and Innovation. As well as the demolition and redevelopment of a number of existing buildings on the Aldwych campus, the initial brief called for world-class architecture to match LSE’s international academic reputation. The RSHP design goes further by placing a public square at the heart of the campus, creating a new focal point and improving connectivity and wayfinding throughout the site.

The building provides simple flexible floor plans for a range of academic and department uses, allowing the creation of innovative and inspirational spaces to attract the best staff, academics and students. The design is vertically zoned with most of the public and highly serviced facilities such as the restaurant, auditorium and large lecture theatres situated at the lower levels. This facilitates natural interaction with the public realm of Houghton Street and animates the newly created LSE Square.

On the first and second floors, general teaching provision is accommodated and there is access to a large external terraced garden. These public and student facilities are all connected by the atrium space, which provides a dramatic and flowing circulation route between the floors – with informal spaces to encourage students to come together to explore, debate and collaborate.

Above the second floor, a number of academic departments are located on flexible floorplates providing both open plan and modular accommodation. These upper levels are connected visually and physically via a dynamic stair that moves in a series of double-height spaces across the façade,creating connectivity between departmental floors.

As part of the decision-making process a public exhibition was held, during which LSE staff, students and visitors were encouraged to vote for their favourite design from the shortlist. The RSHP design won by an overwhelming margin.

Location London, UK

Date

2013–2019

Client

London School of Economics

Cost

£ 78 million

Shell + Core

Area

16,000 m²

Structural

Engineer

AKT II

Services

Engineer

Chapman BDSP

Fire Strategy and Acoustic Consultant

Hoare Lea

Landscape

Architect Gillespies LLP

Environmental

Certification

BREEAM

Outstanding (88.9 %)

Awards

2021

RIBA National Award

RIBA London Award

AJ Architecture

Award Finalist –Higher Education

Civic Trust Award

Winner

2020

Regional Finalist –Civic Trust Awards

Regional Finalist –RIBA Awards

BREEAM Award

winner – Public Sector Project –Post Construction Award

Winner Client of the Year LSE –Education Estates Awards

Winner Social Infrastructure Project of the Year – British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA)

Highly Commended Project of the Year – Education Estates Awards

Highly Commended –Structural Steel Design Awards

The Guardian University Awards’ Finalist

– Buildings that Inspire Category

Planning Awards’ Finalist – Award for Design Excellence

RSHP grasped that this would be a building at once for the university and for the city, an enhancement to public as well as academic space.

Professor Craig Calhoun, Director of LSE

H-FARM

Location Roncade, Treviso, Italy

Date 2016

Client H-Farm

Site Area 2500m2

Floors 2

Co-Architect ZAA

Structural Engineer

RS Ingegneria

Services Engineer

Manens-Tifs

Project Manager

Manens-Tifs

Environmental Certification

LEED Platinum

Located on the outskirts of Venice, the H-FARM building is part of the wider masterplan for H-Campus. The completed scheme is to include a primary and secondary school, university and student accommodation, aiming to become a tech start-up orientated education facility for a world which is constantly reinventing itself.

Students are to live alongside start uppers, entrepreneurs, teachers, experts and managers of large companies – a community of people who will participate in building a collective and cultural identity.

The RSHP-designed focal building will be a multipurpose, flexible exhibition hall / conference signature building sitting within the centre of the scheme and linking all surrounding facilities.

The east wing will comprise a large kitchen and seating area aiming to satisfy the needs of the entire campus, while the west wing will contain a flexible multipurpose hall with seating for 1000 people. This facility will accommodate a variety of events, including exhibitions, workshops and conferences.

At either end of the building, the ground will rise up creating a gentle pedestrian route up and over the building. In such flat terrain, even this gentle gradient will provide distant views over the surrounding countryside.

The whole building will essentially perform as a covered arena, a real centre of gravity for the entire campus. It is conceived as a public square where students, digital district users and the external community can all meet.

Residential

Burlington Gate

Burlington Gate is made up of apartments and galleries, as well as a new public space in the form of an arcade that runs from Old Burlington Street to Cork Street. Not only does this project enhance the experience of London’s most established art gallery district, it also re-establishes the character of the Georgian streetscape with a contemporary building of the highest architectural quality.

The development is in the heart of Mayfair, close to the Royal Academy and Burlington Arcade. The area was developed most extensively during the 18th Century and is typified by a hierarchy of streets and squares framed by close grained Georgian architecture. Successive eras of development have taken place, and the area now has a great variety of architectural styles and scales.

RSHP’s design has evolved through an analysis of the immediate and wider context, which has resulted in a sensitive scheme that responds to the height, scale and urban grain of its surroundings and provides a positive contribution to the streetscape of Old Burlington Street and Cork Street. The development comprises two linear buildings connected by a single translucent core that allows light into the heart of the scheme. The street façades are expressed in a series of bays in proportion to the nearby townhouses, restoring the prevalent

urban grain. Inside, apartments are arranged so that the living areas face the streets and bedrooms face the internal light well, taking advantage of daylight as much as possible. At the upper levels, the façade is inclined and this setback responds to the surrounding roofscapes.

The materials for this project have been carefully selected to reflect the architectural heritage of the area. The main structural frame will be made up of high-quality reinforced concrete that contains a high proportion of crushed granite, basalt and mica aggregate. This dark background is broken up by a series of light stainless steel frames and matches the colour contrast of the surrounding brick façades with their white window frames. These stainless steel elements surround either windows or solid panels made up of handmade bricks, referring to the subtle modelling on the adjacent building exteriors.

Location London, UK

Date 2012–2017

Client Ten Acre (Mayfair) Two Ltd Area 12,000 m2

Development Manager Native Land

Structural

Engineer

Waterman

Structures Ltd

Services Engineer

Waterman

Building Services

Cost Consultant Core 5

Planning Consultant DP9

Fire Consultant Waterman

NEO Bankside London

This residential scheme lies in the heart of the Bankside area of London, located close to the River Thames and directly opposite the west entrance to Tate Modern and its new extension. NEO Bankside comprises 217 residential units in four buildings ranging from 12 to 24 storeys. These four hexagonal pavilions have been arranged to provide residents with generous accommodation, stunning views and maximum daylight.

The steel and glass pavilions take their cues from the immediate context. A generous public realm is created which is animated by retail at ground level. Landscaped groves define two clear public routes through the site which extend the existing landscape from the riverside gardens outside Tate Modern through to Southwark Street and will act as a catalyst for creating a lively and vibrant environment around the base of the buildings throughout the year.

Location London, UK

Date

2003–2013

Client

GC Bankside LLP (a Joint Venture between Native Land and Grosvenor)

Areas

Residential + Office: 28,600 m²

Retail + Basement: 1,560 m²

Cost

£132 million

Contractor’s

Architect

John Robertson

Architects

Structural

Engineer

Waterman

Structures Ltd

Services

Engineer

Hoare Lea

Cost Consultant

WT Partnership

Planning

Consultant

DP9

Landscape

Architect

Gillespies LLP

Main Contractor

Carillion plc

It’s a tour de force of rigour, exceptional attention to detail, and engineering. Everything is beautifully made.

Bill Taylor, 2012 Structural Steel Awards Judge

The overall design hints at the former industrial heritage of the area during the 19th and 20th Centuries, responding with a contemporary language which reinterprets the colouration and materials of the local architectural character. The oxide reds of the Winter Gardens echo those of Tate Modern and nearby Blackfriars Bridge, while the exterior’s timber-clad panels and window louvres give the building a warm, residential feeling.

The pavilions’ distinctive external bracing system has removed the need for internal structural walls and created highly flexible spaces inside the apartments. Located outside the cladding plane as a distinct and legible system the bracing gives a greater richness and depth to the façade and provides a scaling device which helps unify the micro scale of the cladding with the macro scale of the buildings. Interestingly, the dramatic appearance of the bracing and nodes has become a selling point, with many buyers requesting apartments with nodes outside their windows.

Winter gardens are enclosed, single-glazed balconies at the north and south ends of each building, suspended from the main structure on a lightweight deck with large sliding screens. They act both as enclosed terraces and additions to the interior living space. The gardens effectively create ‘prows’ and are expressed as exposed steel decks suspended from the main floor plates on a system of props and hangers. Glazed lift towers provide all occupants with great views of London and the river, and a dynamic expression of the vertical circulation on the eastern side of each building.

Awards

2015

RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist

RIBA London Award

RIBA National Award World Architecture News Residential Award –Shortlisted

2014

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat: Urban Habitat Award – Finalist

2013

British Association of Landscape

Industries – Best Hard

Landscaping

£300 k category

British

Association of Landscape

Industries – Best Soft Landscaping £300 k category

London Building Excellence Awards – Best Large Housing Development

Sunday Times

British Home Awards – Best Landscaped Development

Institute of Civil Engineering Award – Shortlist

2012 RESI Awards –Development of the Year

Structural Steel Design Awards Commendation

Constructing Excellence (London and the South East) Awards – Health and Safety Award Winner Best Landscape Architecture (London) and Best Architecture (UK): International Property Awards

New Homes and Gardens Awards: Gold for Best Communal Garden/ Landscape and Gold for Best Landscaped Urban Development

Best Large Development and Grand Prix Award, Evening Standard

2011

Best Large Development and Grand Prix Award: Evening Standard New Homes Awards Best Development (London) and Best Development (UK): International Property Awards

Best International Development (multiple units) International Property Awards

The River ONE Ningbo

The buildings are designed as a pair to frame the whole development and provide a visual link between the old and new parts of Ningbo.

Richard Paul, Director at RSHP

In 2008, the Chinese city of Ningbo – located on the banks of Hangzhou Bay, South of Shanghai – created a masterplan for a new mixed-use urban district. RSHP has designed two stepped towers to mark the western edge of this new city development. The pair of 152 m (500 ft) high residential towers straddles the area’s waterfront and entrance to its central canal.

Each building comprises 150 units, ranging in size from one to six bedrooms, and includes penthouses, duplexes and maisonettes. Both towers feature two wings, which house the apartments, connected by a central concrete core that gives strength and creates dramatic entrance lobbies for each apartment floor. Large windows make the most of natural light, and balconies are placed on the outer corners of each of the wings to take advantage of the views.

This plan system and orientation gives clarity to the buildings’ form and connects them to the new waterfront and old city to the West and the rest of the masterplan to the east.

A double-height, ground-floor entrance to the first, northern-most tower links the apartments with a health club and spa located in an adjoining pavilion. At ground level, a new south-facing quayside has been created as a focus for residents and visitors. Each building’s primary structure – a diagonal stability frame – is placed on its exterior. As such, the structural walls do not dictate the plan layout, giving flexibility to the interiors.

As well as their expressive external structure, the towers employ a number of architectural components that provide them with a rational, clear and legible form. The external lift cores, structural concrete floor plates, entrance lobbies and generous public realm all contribute to an architecture that offers a human-scale grain to the development.

Location Ningbo, China

Date

2010–2017

Client Hongtai Group

Cost

£130 million

Site Area

3,748 m² + 3,584 m²

Hotel Area

40,000 m²

Apartment Area

40,000 m²

Co-Architect

Ningbo LDI

Structural

Engineer

Arup

Services

Engineer

Ningbo LDI

Landscape

Architect

Gillespies

Awards

2018 Qianjiang Cup Award – Qianjiang Cup for Quality

Engineering Award

One Hyde Park London

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 21 m 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.

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.

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 the 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.

As well as being an exceptional home, One Hyde Park is a piece of history to be treasured and passed down to future generations

Christian Candy, Candy & Candy

One Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo

This mixed-use project redevelops the site currently occupied by the Sporting d’Hiver building, located in the very heart of Monte Carlo. Bounded by the Hôtel de Paris, the Hôtel Hermitage and a neighbouring park, the present art deco-style block offers little public access through the site and dominates the streetscape.

RSHP have designed a series of mixed-use pavilions within a new city quarter that will provide high-end residential accommodation, an office building, an art gallery, conferencing facilities and retail accommodation within a landscaped public realm.

A newly-created central street connects through the centre of the site into a new piazza within the neighbouring Hotel Hermitage site. With the aim of bringing the informal character of the adjacent Petit Afrique park into the scheme, the proposed streets will be framed by green spaces, with water features, sculptures and vertical planting on the pavilion façades. Overall an extra 30 % public space on the site will be created, breathing new life into the district.

The organisation of the residential blocks is modular, rational and flexible. A unique retractable façade system allows the interior living-quarters of each apartment to transform into an external living-space, maximising extraordinary views of the city, the sea and the mountains. Glass cores between each pair of buildings act to mitigate the impact of the pavilions from a massing point of view and allow light into the new pedestrianised spaces. Below ground they act as light wells bringing light into landscaped courtyards within three levels of conferencing facilities.

The locally renowned Salle des Arts from the existing building will be reinstated as the heart of the conferencing facilities. These facilities are made up from a comprehensive suite of rooms providing a multi-use centre in a central location. A new art gallery submerged within the Petit Afrique gardens can be joined to extend the facilities further, but will operate as an independent destination gallery on the scale of London’s Serpentine Gallery for the most part of the year.

Location

Monte Carlo, Monaco

Date

2008–2019

Client Société de Bains de Mer

Site Area

5,067 m²

Gross Floor Area

64,571 m²

Cost

€250 million

Local Architect

Alexandre Giraldi

Architecte

Quantity

Surveyor

Thorne and Wheatley

Structural Engineer

Tractebel

Environmental Services Engineer

SNC Lavalin

Façade Engineer

Arcora

Landscaping

Jean Mus

One Park Taipei

Taipei

RSHP has designed two high-rise residential towers adjacent to Da-An Park in the city of Taipei. The site is located to the east side of DaAn Park along the Jianguo Road. The towers are two of the highest residential buildings in Taipei. The design has set a new benchmark in high-rise residential projects in Taiwan, in terms of location, views and aspect, spatial quality, landscape design and public amenities. The external ground floor area provides private landscaped spaces as well as swimming pools for residents of each tower.

The towers – one at 35 storeys and the other at 31 storeys above ground – accommodate apartment types ranging from 300 m² to 600 m². There are two apartments per floor for the small units, and one apartment per floor for the large units at the top of the towers. Each apartment benefits from panoramic views of the park with generous external terraces. The larger units have large double-height terraces. Whilst the park elevations are articulated by external terraces, the north and south elevations are articulated by projecting windows and external shading elements. The east elevation offers unique city views of Taipei CBD and Taipei 101. This elevation is further accentuated by the colourful and slender stair cores.

Location Taipei, Taiwan

Date

2008–2018

Client Yuan Lih

Construction

Total Area

80,800 m²

North Tower Area

37,480 m²

South Tower Area

43,320 m²

Co-architect

CT Chen

Architects and Associates

Structural

Engineer

Evergreen Construction

Services Engineer

Continental Engineering Consultants, Inc

Landscape

Architect Environmental Arts Design Awards

2019 CTBUH Award of Excellence in the 100–199 m category

PLACE / Ladywell London

Location

London, UK

Date

2014–2016

Client

Lewisham Council

Contract Cost

£4.98 million

Gross Internal Area

2,990 m²

Contractor

SIG Build

Landscape

Architects

Landform

Services

Engineer PBA

Project Manager

AECOM

Awards

2014

NLA Mayor of London’s Award for Projects which best creatively contribute to the Capital’s Economy

2016 Mayor of London’s Prize, New London Awards

Temporary Building Award, New London Awards

2017

London Planning

Awards – Highly Commended

RSHP partnership with Lewisham Council to create a deployable residential development using a volumetric construction method on the site of the former Ladywell Leisure Centre, which was demolished in 2014 and left vacant pending redevelopment, responds to the high demand for housing in the borough by offering a short-term solution.

The temporary housing development has a maximum procurement budget of £4,980,000 and will remain on site for between 1 – 4 years, providing 24 homes for local people in housing need as well as eight ground-floor non-residential units for community and business use.

All units exceed the current space standard requirements by 10%, helping the council to meet an existing shortfall in high-quality temporary and two-bed accommodation whilst it develops new build and estate regeneration programmes for the Ladywell site and others.

The volumetric technology provides high-quality, energy efficient accommodation and means that the development can be built faster and cheaper than if traditional methods were used. The finished structure is also fully demountable meaning it could be used over a number of years and in different locations across the borough.

This scheme may offer a solution to an all too common problem that plagues many development sites, which often sit unused while complex regeneration plans are put together Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham

Merano London

Located on the Albert Embankment, opposite Tate Britain and within sight of the Houses of Parliament, Merano will offer a high-quality mixed-use development, including apartments, offices and a café. The building is formed of three stepped bays, providing a dynamic skyline of varying heights in contrast to the existing ‘wall’ of monotonous and dilapidated developments that occupy this area.

At the base of the building, a four-storey public space will be created offering a café and access through to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens via Tinworth Street. The height of this public space is on par with the neighbouring Rose pub which is part of the Albert Embankment Conservation Area. This project will create a strong visual presence along the riverfront and act as a gateway to east Lambeth as well as a natural gathering space, overlooking Albert Embankment Gardens.

All apartments will greatly benefit from the east-west orientation of the site. The vertical circulation core is placed on the eastern elevation, allowing bedrooms and winter gardens to be placed on the eastern side to appreciate the morning sun, and living spaces to be positioned on the western side of the building to enjoy views out to the river and sunsets in the evening. The different uses of space within the building are arranged vertically, with commercial office spaces occupying the three floors above the café and public piazza and 46 dwellings taking up the upper levels, consisting of a mixture of private and affordable units.

The structure of the building is a simple concrete frame with steel bracing used to provide stability. This allows for the east and west façades to be primarily glass – creating a lightweight, transparent envelope – and enables open and flexible floor plates. Balconies and winter gardens are formed of a light-weight steel structure with colour applied to the undersides and flank walls, which brighten the exterior in contrast to the building’s monochromatic surroundings.

Graham Stirk, Senior Director in charge of Merano, said: “We have designed a highly-flexible residential building that is tailored to its fantastic riverside setting. Its dramatically stepping profile responds to its immediate context and frames a much-needed new public space at its base.”

The three-bay plan form of the proposal creates an elegant building with interesting roof profile which breaks up the existing ‘wall-like development’ and provides a successful integrated public space

Lambeth Council Planning Officer, Merano

Location London, UK

Date

2011–2018

Client St James Group

Residential Area

6100 m²

Office Area

837 m²

Cafe Area

100 m²

Structural

Engineer

Ramboll

Landscape

Architect Gillespies LLP Awards

2019

RIBA London Award

RIBA National Award

Riverlight London

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 risingform composition, ranging in height from 12 to 20 storeys and giving the development a varied skyline. Around 60 % 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 light-weight, two-storey structures with gull-wing roofs; mid levels are represented as concrete floors expressed every two storeys, with intermediate floors expressed as light-weight 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 17 m 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 to 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

2.2 hectares

Net Residential Area

98,015 m2

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

Awards

2012

BD Housing

Architect of the Year – Finalist

2018

RIBA National Award

RIBA London Award

The design standard on this inaugural site in the regeneration of Nine Elms is absolutely spot on, with vast amounts of public space for everyone in the capital to enjoy sitting happily alongside well designed good quality housing.

Boris Johnson, Former Mayor of London

Health & Science

The Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital London

Location

London, UK

Date

2010–2016

Client Guy’s and St Thomas’

NHS Foundation

Trust

Cost

£120 million

Internal Area

20,000 m²

Co-architect

Stantec

Structural

Engineer Arup

Services

Engineer Arup

Main Contractor Laing O’Rourke

Awards

2017 FX Design Awards – Best Public Sector Project

Building Better Healthcare –Grand Prix Design Award, Clinician’s Choice, Best Sustainable Development, Best Acute Hospital Development, Best Internal Environment

New London Architecture –Ashden Prize for Sustainability, Built Wellbeing

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards –London Regional

LABC (Local Authority Building Control) Building Excellence Awards – Best Public Service Building European Healthcare Design Awards – Interior Design and the Arts

ICE London Civil Engineering Awards – Best Building

2016 Healthcare Business Awards – Best Hospital Building

2015 Architects for Health (AfH) Award for Ideas or New Concepts

2013 Be Inspired Award Winner – Innovation in Building

The Cancer Centre at Guy’s brings together all oncology services from across Guy’s and St Thomas hospital, integrating research and treatment services within the same building.

At a city scale, the 14 storey-height of the building provides a transition from the 300 metre (1,000 foot) height of Renzo Piano’s the Shard and the hospital’s Tower Wing to the lower-rise areas to the south and defines a new gateway to the Guy’s campus.

The building is made up of a number of stacked ‘villages’ each relating to a particular patient need – chemotherapy, radiotherapy or the one-stop clinic – and each with their own distinct identity. In addition, there is a double-height welcome area at the base of the building and private suites at the top. By breaking up the functions of the building into two-, three- or four-storey chunks, a human scale is created for each of the care villages, making orientation easier. Visitors exit the lift at their desired section and enter into

the ‘village square’ – a non-clinical space which includes a planted external balcony as well as informal seating and relaxation areas for patients waiting for consultations, appointments or results. Patients then navigate to consultation and treatment rooms via stairs and lifts within each village.

The treatment areas are efficient, ergonomic, functional and safe, in order to maximise clinical gain and patient care. Across the centre, the focus is on improving the user experience, providing patients and staff with views and light, making a series of inclusive spaces with straightforward wayfinding and patient-centred facilities.

The building is designed to actively support change in clinical and accommodation needs over time. Flexibility and adaptability are key parts of the design, structure and services strategy.

The design [for the Cancer Centre at Guy’s], developed in conjunction with patients, was intended to ensure excellence in both the ‘art of care’ and ‘science of treatment’. Alastair Gourlay, Programme Director of Estate Development, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Maggie’s West London Centre

London

[RSHP’s] quietly confident building is truly, unquestionably a haven for those who have been diagnosed with cancer. Their achievement is in having created a completely informal, home-like sanctuary to help patients learn to live - or die - with cancer, beautifully.

Alison Brooks, Chair of the Judges RIBA London Awards

Maggie’s Centres offer support for people affected by cancer at any stage, be they patients, family members or friends. Their work is in complete support of conventional medical treatment. Maggie’s West London Centre, at Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, is conceived as a contrast to the main hospital building.

It is a non-institutional building and an ‘open house’ of 370 m2, arranged over one and a half floors. It is both flexible and adaptable. It can be transparent or opaque, noisy or quiet, light or dark and has a kitchen at the heart of the structure. RSHP hopes to create something that is more homely, more welcoming, more comfortable, more thought-provoking and more uplifting. The entrance is approached from within the hospital grounds via the car park.

The building consists of four components: a wall that wraps around four sides, providing protection from its exposed location; the kitchen – a single-height central space which is the main focus and the heart of the building; annexes off the main space, conceived as meeting, sitting and consulting rooms; and a ‘floating roof’ that sails over the outer wall and helps flood the space with light. Small courtyards are formed between the building and the wall for quiet spaces.

The delicate landscape by Dan Pearson creates a visual and emotional transition from the existing hospital to the new Maggie’s Centre. Wrapping the building with trees also filters the noise and pollution of the surroundings whilst providing a leafy and relaxing backdrop on what is a dense urban and uninviting site.

Location London, UK

Date

2001–2008

Client

Maggie’s Centres

Cost

£ 2.1 million

Gross Internal Area 370 m²

Structural Engineer

Arup

Quantity Surveyor

Turner & Townsend

Landscape

Designer Dan Pearson

Studio

Lighting Consultant

Speirs Major

Main Contractor

ROK

Awards

2009

RIBA Stirling Prize

RIBA Award for London

RIBA London Building of the Year

RICS London Award

Community Benefit Category

Placemaking & Masterplanning

Grand Paris

The Design of the Parisian Agglomeration of the Future

This study that in principle addresses issues of mobility and infrastructure also raises fundamental questions about our collective future, about the sustainability of our current lifestyles, the shape of our cities, on governance and on the choices we make as individuals

Stephen Barrett, Director, RSHP

The practice was invited by the French President to study ‘Grand Paris’ looking at the future of the French capital as an integrated metropolitan region. A team comprising RSHP, the London School of Economics and Arup was commissioned to address the key social and environmental challenges facing Grand Paris in the 21st Century.

As part of an integrated approach to public transport, the team proposed a series of circumferential metro lines linking strengthened poly centres in the Parisian suburbs and reinforcing the existing public transport network. New ‘metropolitan armatures’ were also proposed, to be constructed over the divisive and inaccessible urban canyons formed by the existing rail lines and housing integrated infrastructure. These would link the centre of the city to the suburbs and also create lateral routes between previously separated neighbourhoods.

RSHP continues to work directly with the French Government to develop a more humane, responsive and ecologically sensitive Paris for the 21st Century.

10 Principles for Metropolitan Paris:

1. Restructure metropolitan governance in the Ile-de-France

2. Build Paris on Paris

3. Complete the metropolitan transport network

4. Create a polycentric Metropolitan Paris

5. Build balanced communities

6. Rebalance the regional economy

7. Bridge the physical barriers of the city

8. Create a metropolitan open-space network

9. Reduce the environmental footprint of Metropolitan Paris

10. Invest in high-quality design

Location Paris, France

Date

2008–2013

Client

Ministère de la Culture

Architect RSHP

Team

London School of Economics, Arup

Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Youth Entrepreneurship

Zone

Shenzhen

Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Zone, a designated youth entrepreneurship zone, offers an oasis of innovation and creates an urban work-life balance community in Qianhai.

Containing both a metro and bus station, the site forms a dynamic link between the local community and the emerging skyline. The project comprises of 16 buildings, all connected by an elevated sky deck with landscaped gardens accommodating primarily flexible office floor space, in addition to amenity and retail programs situated within a large, landscaped park.

This urban innovation and creativity hub is a pedestrianised masterplan development with a central public square and central park, surrounded by walkable streets, green courtyards with urban gardens, trees and water features. The central square provides a series of shared outdoor spaces for social meetings and gatherings, performances, sports and other leisure activities, relaxation and regeneration.

A cluster of lower and elevated buildings with planted terraces, vertical green villages and sky gardens on a gentle urban slope hosts a raised landmark cultural and arts building providing a large multi-purpose hall, exhibition and office spaces. Commercial spaces are flexible and column-free, with options to be divided into openplan, cellular or mixed office units.

The building design and layout is based on flexibility, adaptability, and physical and visual connectivity. In contrast to the new ‘super highrise’ developments within the Qianhai area of Shenzhen, this ‘super low-rise’ development aims to create a people focused concept for an ‘urban living room’.

Location

Shenzhen, China

Date

2018–2020

Client

Qianhai Inno-Tech

Investment

Qianhai Holdings

Site Area

90 000 m2

Height

7 m / 23 ft

Floors

Typically 6

Landmark 8

Co-Architect

Hong Kong Huayi

Design

Structural Engineer

Hong Kong Huayi

Design

Services engineer

Hong Kong Huayi

Design

Project Manager

China Overseas

Construction

Landscape

Architect

AOYA-HK

Cost Consultant

China State Construction International Co., Ltd

Contractor

China State Construction International Co., Ltd

Fire Consultant

Hong Kong

Huayi Design Consultants

Scandicci Nuovo Centro Civico

Location

2008–2014

Landscape Architect Erika Skabar

The piazza is the focus of the civitas, which is the object of the whole project, as a way of fostering a civic sense and the city’s identity.

Simone Gheri, Mayor of Scandicci

Located at the gates of Florence, halfway between Casellina and the old town of Scandicci, the Nuovo Centro Civico is a new town centre designed by RSHP in collaboration with DA.studio. The project is part of a wider masterplan commissioned by Scandicci Council in 2003 for a vision to transform Scandicci from a faceless satellite town into a vibrant city hub. In response, the practice designed a new public piazza, flanked by a series of buildings and served by a new tram station, that focuses on public and private activities for the whole community.

The character of the new development respects the scale of the existing surroundings, creates a contemporary architectural language and provides cohesion between different typologies. The result is a restrained architectural aesthetic that directs attention towards the setting rather than the buildings themselves. The project includes a cultural centre, a commercial building and residences. All ground-floor areas contain retail activities that provide interaction with the piazza.

The cultural centre frames the eastern edge and provides a multi-functional hall with flexible space for conferences, exhibitions and concerts – and works both independently or in tandem with the piazza outside. The new tramline – connecting Scandicci directly to the centre of Florence in just a few stops – is a key element of the town centre. It has been the generator for this project and offers the parallel benefits of reducing dependency on cars and encouraging the use of public transport.

The project adopts a sustainable approach by including the installation of solar and photovoltaic elements, as well as a green roof on the cultural building. The landscape design helps to unite the development with its linear arrangement of trees and benches alongside the tram line.

The Nuovo Centro Civico has reinvigorated Scandicci’s community and will set the standard for urban development.

Stratford Cross

Stratford Cross is a joint venture between Lendlease and London Continental Railways to create a thriving business quarter at the heart of London’s newest metropolitan area, Stratford City, E20. As well as new homes and community facilities, Stratford Cross London provides approximately 371,000 m² of work space along with retail and a hotel, creating 25,000 jobs.

The commercial space is spread across two sites, north and south, and designed around the core values of promoting health and wellbeing in the workplace. RSHP has created a masterplan for both sites, including a design framework that enables buildings of different sizes and configurations to be created using the same

basic components. This ‘kit-of-parts’ approach provides overall design coherence whilst allowing scope for the development of individual building identities as well as flexibility to adapt to specific tenant requirements.

All commercial buildings offer activity and variety at lower levels to create a vibrant public realm, whilst higher levels read as a composition of large elements when seen from distance. Natural daylight, views, connectivity and open spaces are all key considerations of the masterplan, which also includes 3,000 m² of shops and restaurants as well as 350 new homes together with community facilities.

Location London, UK

Date

2014–2022

Client Lendlease and London Continental Railways

Total Cost

£2.1 billion

Total Area

371,000 m²

Net Internal Area

S5: 48,000 m²

S6: 24,619 m²

S9: 26,088 m2

Structural Engineer

Arup Ramboll

Services Engineer

Hoare Lea

Landscape Architect

Gustafson Porter + Bowman

Environmental

Certification

S5: BREEAM

Excellent

S6: BREEAM

Excellent

S9: BREEAM

Outstanding, WELL Core & Shell, IWB Gold

In addition to the masterplan, RSHP is also responsible for the design of individual office buildings on site. Building S5, the new home of the Financial Conduct Authority, provides 48,000 m² net internal office space over 20 storeys of flexible, open plan floorplates. Each floor plate is between 1,850 m² and 2,800 m², wrapped around a perimeter atrium and split into three -storey high ‘villages’. This arrangement maximises horizontal and vertical connectivity and creates a vibrant hub at the heart of the building.

Building S6, into which TfL has moved, rises to 11 storeys and provides 24,619 m² net internal office spaces, designed using the same principle of large open-floor plates and central atrium. The two buildings form the enclosure of a significant new public space to be known as International Square where retail and ancillary accommodation at ground level enliven the public realm.

Building S9, the home of Cancer Research UK, British Council and Fin-Tech New Zealand, is formed of large flexible open-plan floor plates, an off-set core location, double height atrium cassettes, and a series of external terraces for break-out and relief spaces. The building successfully offers a backdrop for a variety of working environments adaptable to the constantly evolving workplace.

Transport

Genève Aéroport, Aile Est

The Aile Est (East Wing) project represents an important improvement for Genève Aéroport (GA) in terms of flexibility of its operation and passenger comfort. The project reflects the increase of its commercial activity with regard to medium-haul and long-haul flights.

The Aile Est will allow Genève Aéroport to strengthen its position in the Central Europe region as well as acting as a gateway to the city of Geneva. It will provide a world-class infrastructure project. Six out of seven of the gates will be contact-stands designed to accommodate code C / D / E and F aircrafts. Four of the contact stands will be “MARS”-stands designed to serve two aircraft at once.

Importantly, the project will replace the existing temporary building which mainly processes the non-Schengen long-haul flights as well as the temporary “Finger” pier. The Aile Est consists of a “Processor” with passport control booths for

immigration and emigration and non-Schengen departure and arrival gates with the capacity to accommodate airline lounges at mezzanine level. The project is based on a collaborative approach with consultants forming the RBI-T consortium being based in four countries.

The project is designed to meet the objective of delivering an energy-positive building with regard to energy consumption. In order to reach this objective, the building will rely on a holistic sustainable strategy consisting of the following elements: 110 geothermal piles for heating and cooling, glazed façades guaranteeing a low dependency on artificial lighting, a highperformance solar protection strategy for the glazed facades, approximately 4,000 m² of photovoltaic panels on the roof, LED lighting strategy with responsive control systems and low water consumption using methods such as rainwater harvesting.

Both in its aesthetics – the fruit of the imagination of architect Graham Stirk and the RSHP team – and the technical prowess of its execution, the East Wing becomes the new emblem of Geneva airport. It is also a symbol of the sustainable airport of tomorrow. Corine Moinat, President of the Board of Directors, Geneva Airport

Hong Kong Passenger Clearance Building

Hong Kong

The bridge is a vital project for the Greater Bay Area in Southern China, which includes Hong Kong, Macau and nine mainland cities – and aims to be a powerhouse of innovation and economic growth like San Francisco, New York and Tokyo. This building serves as a beautiful gateway to Hong Kong, and we are honoured to have worked on it.

Keith Griffiths, Chairman, Global Design Principal, Aedas

The Passenger Clearance Building (PCB) is built on a new 150-hectare 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 wave-form roof, enhancing legibility and providing intuitive wayfinding. The movement through the building is punctuated through full-height canyons allowing natural daylight to penetrate all levels of the building and to 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. The building opened to the public on 24 October 2018.

Location

Hong Kong

Date

2010–2018

Client Highways Department Government Area

98,570m2

Co-Architect AEDAS (Hong Kong)

Civil Engineer Aecom

Steelwork & Structural

Engineer

Buro Happold

Services Engineer Aecom

Awards

2020

Best Public Service

Architecture

Asia Pacific –International Property Awards

The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award

MIPIM Awards finalist – Best Industrial & Logistics Development

HKIA Annual Awards – Merit Award in the Industrial / Transport / Utility category

2019

WAF Shortlist for Completed Buildings: Transport

Hong Kong

Institution of Engineers Awards – Grand Award for Structural Excellence

R9 Station

This station serves Kaohsiung’s popular Central Park and the Datong shopping district on the new ‘Red’ line of the underground system.

A large aluminium canopy sails over the underground concourse, protecting commuters from strong sunlight and rainfall but still allowing for natural airflow. Aluminium was chosen as the canopy material due to its lightness, durability and resistance to corrosion. The canopy is approximately 50 m x 50 m, weighs 220 metric tonnes and sits on four yellow steel ‘trees’. Across the canopy’s top surface there are a large number of glazed openings filled with frosted glass. On the underside, these openings are perforated to ensure that natural light can reach the concourse underneath, whilst still supporting the dissipation of the sun’s glare.

The station entrance essentially draws the landscaping down from the park into the station via a sloped, green bank that leads people down to concourse level, approx. 11 metres below ground. Two sets of escalators – plus staircases on either side – allow people to move between the concourse and park level, and are divided by a cascading water feature which helps to animate the approach to the platforms.

In addition to the main entrance, there are two sub-entrances on the opposite side of ChungShan Road. These have their own distinctive aluminium canopies supported by smaller yellow steel trees.

The design of the canopy draws natural light underground and creates a meeting area for people entering and exiting the station below

Location

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Date

2003–2007

Client

Kaohsiung

Rapid Transit Corporation

Cost

£15 million

Area

14,300 m²

Co-Architect

Resource

Engineering Service, Inc.

Structural

Engineer

Structured

Environment

Service

Engineer

Resource

Engineering Service, Inc.

Contractors

Far Eastern

Construction Co. Ltd. / Pan Asia

Corporation Iwata Chizaki Inc.

Awards

2009

FIABCI Global Excellence Award

Environment

Category –

Runner Up

Terminal 1, Lyon–SaintExupéry Airport

The existing airport campus has a very distinctive structural and architectural language in both form and colour. This ‘DNA’ determines the character of the new proposal

Graham Stirk, Senior Director

at

RSHP

The brief for the project was challenging: to extend a distinctive group of existing terminal buildings in order to provide additional stands and improved passenger facilities. It was important that the proposals should create a new identity for the airport yet respect the original architecture, and complement the nearby TGV train station, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

RSHP's competition-winning solution is a circular building made up of bold, simple and elegant structural elements which extends – and gives a new focus to – the existing airport whilst offering future flexibility, adaptability and potential for growth.

Through a phased development until 2020, the scheme will nearly double the size of the airport, enabling it to welcome an additional five million passengers annually. Connecting directly to the existing Terminal 1, the curved form is extended into a new circular terminal which will offer a spacious and clearly defined entrance, a large shopping area and hanging garden at the centre, which will enrich the travelling experience for passengers. The angled façade allows passengers to take advantage of natural light and views over landscaped gardens and the airfield, whilst providing solar shading and protecting against solar gain.

A modular approach to the design and construction of the building responds to important economic constraints but also harnesses the quality and speed of construction inherent in prefabricated construction techniques.

Location

Lyon, France

Date

2013–2018

Client

Aéroports de Lyon

Total Project Cost €180 million

Total Area 70,000 m2

Co-Architect

Chabanne & Partenaires

Structural

Engineer

Bouygues

Bâtiment Sud Est

Mechanical Engineer

WPS

Electrical

Engineer

CAP Ingelec

Principal

Contractor

Bouygues

Bâtiment Sud Est

Sustainability

Consultant

Inddigo

Environmental

Certification

HQE (France)

Awards

2020

Trophée Eiffel

D’Architecture

Acier – Voyager

Category Winner

Terminal 3, Taoyuan Airport

The design for Taoyuan Terminal 3 synthesises the practice’s previous major airport experience with a specific brief. It has brought together the flexibility of the single-span, loose-fit volume of London Heathrow Terminal 5 with the warmth and human qualities of the flowing interior spaces of Madrid Barajas Terminal 4. The result is a unique, dynamic and fluid architecture that allows for easy adaption and future transformation of airport functions without compromising the passenger experience or the architectural integrity.

The RSHP proposal is inherently simple in its concept. The design is inspired by Taiwan’s beautiful landscapes, the sea surrounding it and its rhythms of nature and life, to create a series of unique interior places designed for their purpose and protected beneath an elegant hard-shell roof. Within, a soft inner surface is malleable and dynamic to celebrate and form the ever-changing spaces below. The nature of the interior spaces

– whether grand, intimate, uniform or dramatic –and the extent of those spaces can be changed. This adjustable scaling will give passengers spatial clarity in all areas: large, small, busy or quiet – to reduce stress and improve wellbeing and comfort. This flexibility ensures the airport is always at its best and suitably presented as the principal gateway to and from Taiwan to the rest of the world.

This terminal will be the first of a new generation, a highlight of the journey for new and seasoned travellers alike. It will offer arriving passengers an equality of spatial experience to those departing. Its rational plan arrangement is forecast to deliver minimum connection times of just 40 minutes –the best in the region – with simple wayfinding and airside connectivity.

[Terminal 3] will create brand-new travel experiences for passengers and become the pride of all Taiwanese people

David Fei, President & CEO of Taoyuan International Airport Corporation

Terminal 4, Barajas Airport

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 façades and roof lights, zoned lighting and the collection of rainwater to irrigate the landscape.

Location

Madrid, Spain

Date

1997–2005

Client

AENA

Cost

£448 million

Total Area

1,158,000 m²

Terminal Area

470,000 m²

Satellite Area

315,000 m²

Co-Architects

Estudio Lamela

Structural Engineer

Anthony Hunt

Associates

TPS with OTEP

HCA

Lighting Consultant

Arup

Speirs Major

Façade Engineer

Arup

Landscape

Architect

dosAdos

Terminal and Satellite Contractor

UTE

Parking

Contractor

DRAGADOS

Baggage

Handling Contractor

Siemens Dematic

Awards

2008

AIA / UK Excellence in Design Award

Istructe Award for Commercial or Retail Structures

XX Urbanism Architecture and Public Works Awards, Madrid City Council

Airport Council Award for Best European Airport

RIBA European Award

RIBA Airport Award

2006

RIBA Stirling Prize

In architectural terms they designed a wonderful building that makes an impact on everybody and created a truly functional and efficient airport that facilitates the flow of passengers through the building

Jose Manuel Hesse Martin, Plan Barajas Director

Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport

London

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.

Location London, UK

Date

1989–2008

Client

BAA plc

Total Project Cost

£4.3 billion

Total Area

300,000 m²

Terminal Area

60,000 m²

Satellite Area

155,000 m²

Co-Architect

Pascall + Watson

Co-Architect Rail

Exchange

HOK

Structural

Engineer

Arup

Civil Engineer

Mott MacDonald

Services

Engineer

DSSR Arup

Awards

2014

Skytrax World’s Best Terminal

2013

Skytrax World’s Best Terminal

2008

RIBA London Award

RIBA National Award

Structural Steel Design Award

Sustain Magazine British Construction Awards – Highly Commended

Off Site Construction Award – Best Commercial Project Off Site Construction (OSC)

Structural Award for Commercial Structures

– Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

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

Terminal 5 is an architectural and engineering tour de force that raises the standards of British airport design by 100%

Jonathan Glancey, The Guardian, 2008

The Leadenhall Building

3 World Trade Center

8 Chifley

88 Wood Street

Campus Palmas Altas

Chiswick Park

BBVA México Tower

International Towers Sydney

Lloyd’s of London

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping

Antwerp Law Courts

Senedd Cymru / Welsh Parliament

Centre de Conservation du Louvre à Liévin

The Berkeley Hotel Entrance

Bodegas Protos

British Museum WCEC

International Spy Museum

Las Arenas

The Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience

Minami Yamashiro Elementary School

LSE Centre Building H-FARM

Burlington Gate

NEO Bankside

The River ONE

One Hyde Park

One Monte Carlo

One Park Taipei

PLACE / Ladywell

Merano

Riverlight

The Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital

Maggie’s West London Centre

Grand Paris

Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Zone

Scandicci Nuovo Centro Civico

Stratford Cross

Genève Aéroport, Aile Est

Hong Kong Passenger Clearance Building

R9 Station

Terminal 1, Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport

Terminal 3, Taoyuan Airport

Terminal 4, Barajas Airport

Terminal 5, Heathrow Airport

RSHP

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