Waterman's Place

Project Name: Waterman's Place
Construction year: 2009
Website:
Address: Leeds Canal Basin , LONDON - United Kingdom

Architect(s) : CZWG (www.czwg.com)
Project Category: Residential | Housing

Latitude: 53.7934
Longitude: -1.54872

Waterman's Place

Leeds Canal Basin is being regenerated through a masterplanned sequence of public spaces along side the canal and the River Aire, each defined by a series of buildings containing apartments, hotel and commercial spaces. From the east, this new quarter is now accessed via a replacement footbridge spanning the river where it emerges from the vaults beneath City railway station. Here, raised above a publicly permeable ground floor of commercial units, is CZWG’s apartment building.

Like an eroded geological mass surmounted by a ‘hill town’ of stepping blocks, and riven by a seam of polished copper, it’s a rigorously planned assembly of forms governed by its own architectural logic, but which is responsive to its canal-side location: indigenous brick walls deeply punctured by repetitive windows, and timber cladding which will weather to a warm beige-grey.
(text from architects' website)

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