Regeneration masterplan for town centre riverside including: new Bridge, Queen’s Mill, civic square, boardwalk, ‘string-of-pearls’ lighting, nature path, hydro-electic turbine, weir fish-pass and redevelopment sites; to focus on the River Aire as an under-used asset by improving access and investment opportunities.
- Client:
- Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
- Team:
- Benedetti Architects
- McDowell+Benedetti (to July 2016)
- Alan Baxter & Associates
- Arup
- Sutton Vane Associates
- Philip Pank Partnership
- Costain
- Published:
- Bridge only: Channel 4 TV ‘Kevin’s Big Town Plan’
- Masterpieces- Bridge Architecture & Design
- Architects’ Journal
- Building Design
- Casabella (Italy)
- World Architecture News
- C3 (Korea)
- Architecture NZ
- de Architect (Holland)
- OfArch (Italy)
- National papers
- Local radio and TV
- China TV
- Awards:
- Bridge only: International Footbridge Award 2011
- Royal Town Planning Institute Yorkshire 2010
- RIBA CABE Public Space Award 2009
- RIBA Award 2009
- RIBA White Rose Silver Award 2009
- Civic Trust Special Award for Partnership
- Civic Trust Award
- Regeneration & Renewal Awards- Grand Prix & Best-designed Regeneration Development
- ACE Award for Infrastructure
- Structural Steel Design Award
- Waterways Renaissance Awards- Community
- RICS Pro-Yorkshire Award-Community Benefit
- FX International Awards- Public Space
- Waterfront Center Seattle USA Honor Award
- RIBA Stirling Prize mid-list
- Prime Minister’s Better Public Building shortlist
