Architect Bjarke Ingels unveils images of Newcastle office block
Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled proposals for a 12-storey office block in Newcastle.
The sinuous building, dominating a historic area near the quayside, would be the architect鈥檚 first UK building outside London.
BIG ago on the back of Google鈥檚 European headquarters which it is designing with Thomas Heatherwick.
Ingels said: 鈥淥ur proposal is born from the unique conditions of Newcastle鈥檚 architectural elements, the sloping hills and the curvy frames of the bridges over the Tyne.鈥�
Last year BIG was shortlisted by the National Museums Liverpool for the masterplan to regenerate its waterfront campus. It .
No1 Quayside, on a site currently occupied by the former Stereo bar, would provide 10,000sq m of office space in floor plates starting at 1,260sq m at the base and reducing to 110sq m as the building rises. Each floor would have its own garden, with a green roof capping the building.
BIG worked with local architect Xsite Architecture on the design which has yet to get planning.
Landowner Rob Cameron appointed Knight Frank last year to help work up the proposal for the site which will now be taken to next month鈥檚 Mipim property fair to find a development partner.
Knight Frank Newcastle partner Patrick Matheson added: 鈥淚鈥檓 confident there will be a lot of interest as this is an incredibly exciting blueprint for the city of Newcastle.鈥�
He pitched it as a 鈥渢hird modern icon鈥� for the city鈥檚 skyline, along with Foster鈥檚 Sage on the Gateshead bank of the Tyne and Wilkinson Eyre鈥檚 Stirling Prize-winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
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