Squire & Partners has completed its redevelopment of the Metropolitan Police鈥檚 former New Scotland Yard headquarters, which features 268 apartments, three floors of offices and retail and restaurant uses at ground-floor level.
Its design splits the site 鈥� off Victoria Street and opposite Charles Holden鈥檚 grade I-listed 55 Broadway building 鈥� into two podiums, each with three buildings of 14 to 19 storeys in height. The development, named The Broadway, also delivers a new public space called Orchard Place.
The scheme鈥檚 lower ground floor and two basement levels house residential amenities, including a spa with swimming pool, sauna and steam rooms, treatment rooms, a gym, changing facilities, a games room, cycle storage and parking.
Squires said the project was a 鈥渦nified scheme鈥� that created a 鈥渦nique sense of place鈥�, in contrast with the former Met HQ, which the practice described as a 鈥渄efensive 1960s block鈥� that occupied the site鈥檚 entire footprint and created a wall along Victoria Street.
The practice said The Broadway鈥檚 architecture was inspired by the Art Deco styling of the Holden building, which sits above St James鈥檚 Park Station and was once the main offices of London Underground.
Source: Jack Hobhouse
The Broadway, by Squire & Partners, seen from nearby Dartmouth Street
It said the scheme was a 鈥減ared-back, contemporary response that draws upon the period鈥檚 geometric shapes, jewellery, fashion and opulence, with distinctive diamond-shaped pre-cast panels across the fa莽ades鈥�.
Senior partner Michael Squire said the project was a 鈥渧ibrant residential-led mixed-use scheme鈥� that contributed to the delivery of Westminster City Council鈥檚 vision for the regeneration of Victoria. Main contractor on the 拢420m development was Multiplex.
Source: Jack Hobhouse
The project was delivered for developer Northacre and Dubai-based SHUAA Capital. Northacre acquired the former New Scotland Yard site in 2014.
In 2017, the Met Police moved to a new base on the Embankment, refurbished to designs by AHMM.
Charles Holden鈥檚 55 Broadway reflected in the windows of the now-demolished New Scotland Yard
Church House in Westminster yesterday played host to two back-to-back conferences on construction and housing attended by hundreds of professionals from the built environment. Here is a round-up of the key talking points from the event, run by 黑洞社区 and Housing Today.
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