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Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2019

Disclaimer: The Pineapples 2019: Details provided for each project may have changed since awards entries were submitted in early 2019

Gallery: Shortlisted entries for The Pineapples Awards 2019

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West End Project, London

The West End Project is a radical overhaul of traffic and public realm in central London. It removes the one-way systems and general traffic on Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street, closes streets to create parks and new squares, widens pavements and improves road safety for cyclists and pedestrians. The aim is to shape the public realm to tackle air quality, loneliness and climate change.

Temple, Leeds

Demolition work is underway on a £350m project adjacent to Leeds train station and the proposed HS2 route. A nine-acre brownfield site is being transformed into an office, retail and leisure space with 750 new homes. The scheme is seen as the gateway development for the regeneration of disadvantaged inner city district Holbeck, bringing new homes and jobs.

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8 Albert Embankment

The Grade II-listed Lambeth Fire Station and former London Fire Brigade headquarters, which overlooks the Thames and the Houses of Parliament, is being converted into 400 homes, a new fire station and a Fire Brigade Museum. The £450m project also includes the creation of public space in front of the building, opening up the high street where a new hotel, offices and shops will be delivered.

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Port Loop, Birmingham

Port Loop was a redundant urban island, strangled by canals, just outside Birmingham the city centre. It is one of the UK’s most significant brownfield regeneration schemes, and is being transformed into a new, family-focused waterside neighbourhood. The 43-acre site will bring 1,150 new homes to the city, along with workspaces, parks, community facilities, a swimming pool, cycleways, 1.5km of towpaths and a water bus stop.

2019 Future Place Winner

Kirkstall Forge, Leeds

The 57-acre Kirkstall Forge development is the oldest continually industrialised site in the UK. It cost £40m to clear and decontaminate the brownfield site, and build flood defences, a major river bridge and an on-site railway station. The new rural neighbourhood will be nestled in 150 acres of woodland valley, but is just a six-minute train journey into Leeds.

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Wickside, Hackney, London

Wickside is a polluted, canal-side industrial no-man’s land in Hackney – a waste-transfer site with no homes and just 21 jobs. The masterplan received planning approval in May 2018 to turn the area into a thriving, buzzing district with 500 homes, a craft brewery, a casting foundry, studio space for creative businesses and local artists, and a food market.

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The Chocolate Factory, London

The Chocolate Factory, once home of the Jelly Baby, closed down in 1975. The cluster of 19th and 20th century manufacturing buildings have steadily been claimed as studios for local artists, music makers, multimedia studios, photographic studios and performing arts organisations. The new masterplan has sought to maintain the individual nature of the different structures while creating cohesion.

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Oakfield, Swindon

The 239-home scheme Oakfield was built for people not cars. A redundant former university campus, the site lies at the intersection of three distinct neighbourhoods. Hoarded off, unused and unloved for years, it’s effectively a partition between communities.

2019 Future Place