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40 PROJECT REPORT: RETAIL DEVELOPMENTS


The architects wanted to make the connections between the existing and new additions to the centre “bright and airy,” and they arrived at a solution to brighten up the soffits at ground floor level


buildings, providing an architectural statement. This penetration creates two forms, sitting next to the listed restaurant. Both have gable ends, but these are sharply bisected at their corners, the gables ‘turning the corner’ into the inner facade, with the result being unusual and eye-catchingly playful forms.


This is particularly striking on the precast-clad unit, its gables “leading the eye into the entrance,” as well as helping signpost its presence. “As it turns the corner your eye does too, it entices you in,” says Constantinou. At night, this unit, which houses the eatery TGI Friday’s plus others, is very distinctive, with LED strip lighting placed along the front edges of the gables. Behind the gable forms, the roof spaces house the copious plant needed to service the restaurant and spaces within – “always a bit of a challenge with commercial buildings,” says Cos. The architects resolved the need to enclose these steeply-angled roofs in a pragmatic way that also created an attractive roofline. Instead of using traditional terracotta tiles they arranged long terracotta battens with gaps between them to facilitate natural ventilation of the roof space.


Cos Constantinou comments: “We


haven’t used that approach before, it hides plant but also creates an interesting roof.” He continues: “The planners were happy; we took them on a journey with us, and worked with them closely.” He says it helped that one of their key criteria was to create something with human scale on the high street.


The brick fronted volume completes a somewhat symmetrical framing of the entrance, with a similar corner gable, although only slightly returning past the corner. It also has a terracotta batten- constructed roof, but in this case it’s brass coloured. “Most of the buildings along the facade have taken the gable design and represented it in a different way,” says Cos. A further significant challenge was integrating a nine screen cinema including iMax into a two to three storey high street. Leslie Jones pushed back the cinema building and used the architecture of the restaurants to mask the larger mass, ensuring a more human scale facing the street.


Interiors


The triangular events space at the heart of the development is perhaps its most important gift to the town. Connecting all of the volumes, it creates a flexible,


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year-round resource for the public which has already been used to stage major events such as viewings of the Wimbledon and FA Cup finals, as well as a farmer’s market. There is moveable seating and lighting fixtures, and the entrances to the cinema and bowling overlook this space at upper level. Visible from the high street, the continuous curving canopy above is constructed of square panels but has gaps between it and the structure below to allow natural ventilation. It curves downwards towards the main entrance, helping to signal it from within.


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