Saxton Leeds, Urban Splash Architecture, Building, Architect, Yorkshire Property, Image
Saxton, Leeds : Urban Splash Building
Leeds Architecture, northern England, UK – design by Union North, Architects
28 Jun 2012
Saxton
Design: Union North
RIBA Awards 2012 Citation:
Saxton, Leeds
This refurbishment of two derelict council housing blocks offers a paradigm for regeneration in these straightened times that combines both social and environmental sustainability. Intensive consultation has led to a genuinely mixed-tenure scheme. Apartments are light and cheerful, with spectacular views.
photos from RIBA
The existing structure, lifts and stairs have been re-used, adding to the outside a new steel structure to provide the increased density and allow the building to be clad in a highly insulating but very elegant new skin. The sloping site was cleverly used to separate out the social heart from the ubiquitous parking areas and to make a communal entrance with a strong relationship back to the city.
photo © Joel Chester Fildes
Saxton Leeds – RIBA Awards winner, 2012
Saxton Leeds – Building Information
Location: The Avenue, Leeds
Architect: Union North
Client: Urban Splash
Contractor: Urban Splash Build
Structural Engineer: Arup
Services Engineer: Arup
Contract Value: £40 million
Date of completion: Jul 2011
Gross internal area: 25,232 sqm
Chair of Jury: Professor Julian Marsh
Regional representative: Simon Baker
Lay assessor: Kester Rattenbury
Saxton Leeds images / information from RIBA
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Leeds Architecture Developments
West Yorkshire Architectural Projects
Leeds Architecture Designs – chronological list
Major recent building in Yorkshire on e-architect:
The Hepworth Wakefield
David Chipperfield Architects
photograph © Iwan Baan
The Hepworth
Another building by Union North on e-architect:
Manchester housing
Union North
image from architects
Manchester towers : three residential towers for Urban Splash
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Design: Brewster Bye Architects
image courtesy of developer
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image courtesy of architects
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