A new community hub for Warrington Borough Council, with community education facilites, a therapy pool and community cafe. A distinctive architectural design by Walker Simpson Architects is offset by a forecourt and planting scheme with a wetland garden and pollarded willows to relate to the local warterside context. The site contained some difficult issues including […]
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A private garden design for a small rear garden of a Victorian House. The brief was to create an attractive decked area coming out from the house and stepping down to the garden. with screening to generate greater privacy using irregular black vertical paled screen, The rear of the house was clad with Western Red […]
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Canon Green Court is a 1960s high rise apartment block with a low rise 2 storey apartment block Westmister House alongside. Situated half a mile from Manchester City Centre. In 2018 Salix Homes comissioned Costorphine and Wright to refurbish the exisiting apartments and develope proposals for new a new build apartment block on Blackfriars Road. […]
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A new development of 28 contemporary homes in Chorlton , Manchester. The project aims to create a contemporary Urban character with the houses facing a central green space. The house frontages are softened by ornamental herbaceous planting and espallier fruit trees. The project was completed in Spring 2017
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15 new family homes with high quality Architectural and Landscape Design. The project is currently at post tender stage. SMLA carried out masterplanning and layout design in collaboration with 2e architects as well as developing detailed design for bespoke boundary works , paving and planting. Project currently due to start on site in Summer 2016
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The project consists of improvements to the car park and the development of a Habitat area in the school field. The habitat area includes outdoor teaching area a five a side pitch , growing areas , wetland and woodland habitats which aim to link into the school’s commitment to the Forest schools ethos. There is […]
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The project is for 134 new apartments for rent on Great Ancoats Street in Central Manchester. Our input includes the design of the ground floor public realm with York Stone Paving and semi mature Tulip trees (Liriodendron tulipifera)in Corten Steel containers.There is also a ground floor courtyard with a mirror pool collecting rainwater runoff and […]
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Design of a new forecourt and tree lined link for a new Cinema restaurant complex within an existing retail development. The aim of the project was to diversify the use of the development from purely retail into more social and leisure activity extending into evening use. SMLA were appointed to produce proposals for Planning approval with […]
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A small private garden in the Cliff Conservation area of Salford. The clent wanted a well considered garden with good quality materials which respected the historic context of the site in a conservation area of mainly 18th and 19th century buildings. Details were developed which drew on local patterns from existing housing and buildings -trying […]
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A private garden design in Bramhall Stockport in corporating a water feature new paving and planting. the project was completed in 2004 .
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FORGOTTEN SPACES SHEFFIELD 2011-commendation. A collaboration with Architects David Britch and Eamonn Caniffe. LETCHWORTH GARDEN CITY CENTENARY COMPETITION. 1997 with Duncan Ecob. The proposals aimed to extend recreational uses from the town into the surrounding countryside,in ways which linked creatively and conceptually with the historical development of Letchworth as one of the earliest Garden Cities. […]
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The creation of a new ‘gateway’ at the junction of a Sustrans cycle way in Abbey Hey; East Manchester New cycle barriers and chicanes were installed picking up features of local interest-which included the locomotive industry which formed the area in the industrial revolution; references to the local park and fishing ponds and the adjacent […]
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A public space strategy for Manchester’s Northern Quarter. The study developed in response to concern by local businesses and residents at the lack of public space in the Northern Quarter. This was carried out against a background of increased pressure for residential development in the area. The study analysed a hierarchy of spaces and developed […]
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SMLA were appointed in 2009 to develop a master plan for the park which drew on consultation carried out by the friends of Copperas Field. Since then the group has secured funding to progress the project to achieve planning permission which was achieved in 2011.Funding for a natural play space was secured in 2013 .The […]
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A series of small projects carried out over a period of 8 years to enhance the school. This included a small seating area with a coastal theme, improvements to the school quad area, the creation of an orchard using local English Apple varieties in the Infants Quad and screen planting around the school. This project […]
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A local neighbourhood centre surrounded by local shops, a pub and public services such as a Library, the Housing Office and Doctors surgery. The project aimed to tie all of these together with a new enlarged paved space with a stepped green space forming a backdrop for events in the summer. Completed in 2008. An […]
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Sale West is a former Manchester overspill estate nicknamed the ‘Racecourse Estate’ after the names of some of its roads and surrounded by relativly affluent suburbs. Trafford Council and Irwell Valley Housing Association identified funding from the lottery for improvements to public and neighbourhood spaces in the area with an emphasis on youth and community […]
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Birchwood is part of WARRINGTON New Town and was developed as clustered neighbourhoods Within a framework of native woodland and hedgerow planting. Over time as the area has developed there has been a demand for remodelling areas of the estate to be more manageable and to cater for needs such as increased car ownership. SMLA […]
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Partington is a Manchester overspill estate on the edge of the Cheshire countryside. Many of the residents came from inner city Manchester in the 1950’s and 60’s with the promise of work in the adjoining petrochemical industries in Carrington –much of which closed in the 1980’s and 90’s. The area in the late 1990’s was […]
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Hillock estate is a Manchester overspill estate located in Whitefield in north Manchester between Manchester and Bury. The Project focussed on improved neighbourhood spaces in conjunction with improving practical issue such as parking problems. An environmental strategy for the estate was developed through a series of workshops with a steering group comprising residents and Housing […]
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A retail led town centre renewal project . Our brief was to develop a distinctive and coordinated approach to the design of the public realm to link with the centre of Burnley. The project has been developed up to tender stage.
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Since 2009 the practice has worked with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing to develop a series of Environmental improvement projects in housing neighbourhoods in Rochdale. The bulk of the work focused on improvements to individual properties and blocks of flats-providing off road parking utilizing permeable SUDS compliant driveways ; improved bin stores and recycling facilities So far […]
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Proposals include the reconstruction of the Coronation Street set together with hard and soft landscape proposals for the forecourt ,frontage and parking . A key element has been planting three mature trees on the set, which involved sourcing trees from a supplier in the Netherlands with specialist design and installation of the trees. On other […]
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A new green space between the new ITV building and the Imperial War museum linking to the bridge crossing to Media City and the Manchester Ship Canal walkway The design intent was to create a dynamic robust urban greenspace which matched the scale of the adjoining buildings and canalside waterfront. Where possible we’ve tried to […]
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Landscape design for a new girls secondary school In North Manchester. This included a sensory garden, boundary works, forecourt, hard and soft play areas and an ecological wetland garden also featuring a few exotic plants. The scheme uses pleached Hornbeams as a dividing feature to screen quiet social areas, play and parking. Completion Summer 2007.
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