The centre of Bristol, UK, is being reinvented with a GBP 255 million development that will include 399 apartments, 400,000 sq.ft. of offices and 87,000 sq.ft. of shops, cafes, restaurants and other leisure facilities, as well as incorporating a number of protected and listed buildings.
The centre of Bristol, UK, is being reinvented with the largest mixed-use development to have been built in the city for 20 years, bringing back into productive life a former brewery site Finzels Reach development.
Named after a Victorian sugar importer who had a factory in the area, the GBP 255 million site will include 399 apartments, 400,000 sq.ft. of offices and 87,000 sq.ft. of shops, cafes, restaurants and other leisure facilities, as well as incorporating a number of protected and listed buildings.
Centrepiece of the development is Bridgewater House, the largest speculative office development on site outside London, and which comprises some 110,000 sq.ft. of Grade A office space, set to be rated as BREEEAM Excellent. Bridgewater House, in the process of completion, will be one of three office buildings in the development.
The five-storey, three-sided glass atrium of the new building incorporates steel framing systems from Devizes-based steel glazing specialist Wrightstyle, designed to bring maximum light to each intermediate floor and provide 30 minutes of integrity and insulation.
The advanced framing system must also deliver acoustic control and was designed so that floor levels can be sub-divided to different occupants without impacting on fire compartmentation – a complex design challenge for which Wrightstyle has become internationally-recognized.
Finzels Reach has already become a landmark in the city and will become a new commercial, social, retail and cultural hub. Over 1,000 people will also live in the development, and, at the centre of the scheme, Temple Cross will be one of the city’s principal public areas. A pedestrian bridge will connect the site with Castle Park on the opposite bank of the Avon, with landscaped walkways along the riverside.
Wrightstyle has become a trusted partner in regeneration schemes both in the UK and internationally, with a long list of flagship completions from Edinburgh to Hong Kong.