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Accrington Public Realm
Hardscape Products Ltd
Six unique benches made with several Artscape processes have been installed outside Accrington town hall. The bespoke designs recount Accrington’s rich and proud history, paying a special tribute to the Accrington Pals, Accrington Stanley FC and the area’s role in the Industrial Revolution.
Alder Hey Children's Hospital, West Derby, Liverpool
Hardscape Products Ltd
The new £250 million Alder Hey Children’s Hospital at Aintree, near Liverpool was completely rebuilt on neighbouring Springfield Park to integrate both hospital and park environments for the therapeutic benefit of the children requiring treatment. As Europe’s first hospital in a park, the outdoor space played a significant role in the development of the project. Hardscape worked in close partnership with contractors Laing O’Rourke and architects BDP to advise and supply a variety of coloured paving materials for the entire outside areas, designed to offer patients and visitors with a warm and welcoming space.
Anfield Forever, Liverpool FC
Hardscape Products Ltd
Hardscape is constantly improving and developing its offering for stonework at sports stadia. Teaming up with Your Tribute Ltd, hundreds of etched plaques and dedications have been created and sent to the European football fortress – Anfield.
Angel Field, Hope University, Liverpool
Hardscape Products Ltd
Creative Campus is Angel Field, a magnificent 21st century Renaissance garden. Built-in 2010, as the final stage of the redevelopment of the campus, the garden features fountains, a performance amphitheatre, an angel statue and beautiful reflective spaces and has become an oasis in the heart of the city.
Ashington Leisure Centre
Hardscape Products Ltd
The Ashington Leisure Centre is a community and leisure facility that sets a high benchmark and precedent for design excellence, marking the beginning of a regeneration for the town centre. Externally the building stands with civic pride facing the town centre. The scale of the large volumes: the triple height entrance foyer and pool elevation are fenestrated with tall glazed panels bringing elegance and emphasis to the entrance area.
Birmingham New Street Station
Hardscape Products Ltd
Significant investment in redeveloping the station has turned it into a magnificent 21st century transport hub. The redeveloped Birmingham New Street station opened its doors to passengers in September 2015, marking the end of a five-year redevelopment programme.
Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Hardscape Products Ltd
Since its official opening back in May 2016, the Blavatnik School of Government building has become one of the most vibrant departments of the University of Oxford. HRH The Duke of Cambridge himself attended the official opening, marking the significance of this new and innovative structure. Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, who also worked on the extension at Tate Modern art gallery in London, the award-winning building is beautifully landscaped with Hardscape’s Royal Coffee granite paving – a fitting tribute to a future King!
Bremner Square, Leeds
Hardscape Products Ltd
Remembering Scotland’s little big man, Billy Bremner, amongst others, the new monument has been designed to celebrate the history of Leeds Utd FC – its players, managers and most importantly supporters from far and wide.
Brighton Seafront
Hardscape Products Ltd
This incredible project came about through the Brighton Seafront Strategic Design Initiative, the aim of which was to regenerate The West Pier at Brighton seafront through an integrated development plan and strategy.
Broomielaw, Glasgow
Hardscape Products Ltd
Broomielaw is a major thoroughfare in the City of Glasgow, UK. It runs adjacent to the River Clyde, on its North Bank through the International Financial Services District. Clyde Waterfront is a strategic partnership comprising the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow City, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire Councils.
Cable Cars, Greenwich, London
Hardscape Products Ltd
Commuting by cable car has come to the UK as a River Thames crossing with a difference opened to the public on 28th June 2012. The Emirates Air Line, a £44 million cable car system spanning the Thames in London, was officially launched by London mayor Boris Johnson. The cable cars will whisk passengers almost 300ft above the river between Greenwich, by the 02 Arena in south London, and the Royal Docks, by the ExCel exhibition centre to the north.
Centenary Square, Birmingham
Hardscape Products Ltd
One of Birmingham’s flagship public spaces was officially opened to reveal its new design in a special ceremony on the 3rd July 2019. Centenary Square’s new look was unveiled nearly five years after Birmingham City Council, with RIBA, launched an international design competition, to redesign one of the city’s biggest squares, which attracted 185 entries from more than 30 countries. Its completion fulfils the organiser’s aspiration to create ‘a world class space and popular destination’.
Chain Street, Bradford
Hardscape Products Ltd
The City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Housing) commissioned landscape architects re-form of Leeds in 2013 to develop designs for an urban linear park which would ultimately form part of a multi-million-pound redevelopment of a rundown Bradford neighbourhood.
Chester Business Quarter
Hardscape Products Ltd
Designed to boost Chester’s business economy and set a precedent for investment throughout the city, the public space outside Chester Railway Station was supplied with Neland Gala Waterstruck clay pavers marking a gateway to the city’s £100 million Central Business Quarter.
Connswater Greenway, Belfast
Hardscape Products Ltd
Twelve years ago leaders in the East Belfast community, principle among them Sammy Douglas, then Chair of East Belfast Partnership, had a vision of a walking/cycle/nature way that would link some of the public parks of East Belfast by following the watercourse of the Connswater and Loop Rivers from the Cregagh Glen down to the Connswater’s entry to Belfast Lough.
Cunard Building, The Strand, Liverpool
Hardscape Products Ltd
Saturday 2nd July 2016 marked the Centenary celebrations of the famous Cunard building in Liverpool – one of the city’s world–famous Three Graces. To bring the Cunard company’s legacy to life, the Hardscape team was commissioned by BCA Landscape in collaboration with design agency Smiling Wolf to craft an epic 50-metre granite stone seat.
Deansgate Metrolink, Manchester
Hardscape Products Ltd
Almost four years on we look back at a distinctive Manchester tram stop within a landscaped park setting that boasts a ‘living wall’ of plants and wildflowers surrounded by extensive landscaping, offering a calm and peaceful environment for passengers who are waiting for the tram.
Deptford Market, Deptford Market Yard, London
Hardscape Products Ltd
Client: The Deptford Project
Architect: Farrer Huxley Associates
Contractor: Bower Contracting
Discovery Museum, Newcastle
Hardscape Products Ltd
The area outside the Discovery Museum, Newcastle has been transformed with striking new paving supplied by Hardscape and referred to as the Challenger Plaza – a new outdoor space that now plays host to a range of museum events and activities and was officially opened by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Hazel Stephenson in September 2016.
Donegal & The City Quays, Belfast
Hardscape Products Ltd
A £675,000 investment has seen a Belfast car park transformed into an exciting new ‘eco space’ for the public. Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland unveiled the space which sits directly on top of the Donegall Quay underground car park. The space is designed to form a new social area for locals to relax beside the River Lagan. It is a mix of grassy areas and seated spaces.
Downham Market, Norfolk
Hardscape Products Ltd
Hardscape made a return visit earlier in 2017 to a market town in the Fens, Norfolk, with a long history believed to date back to the Saxon Period. One of the oldest market towns in Norfolk (it was granted a market charter as early as 1050), Downham Market stands on the banks of the river Great Ouse and its name translates as ‘settlement on a hill’, with its hilltop location rising above the surrounding fens.
Drift Park, Rhyl
Hardscape Products Ltd
This multi award winning seafront park was inspired by the meeting of coastal processes and the interventions used to control them and celebrates the fascinating heritage of Rhyl in the form of a ‘beachcombing’ artwork experience.
Eberle Street, Liverpool
Hardscape Products Ltd
As part of a major makeover, Eberle Street, Liverpool has been revamped with a unique paving and lighting scheme that pays homage to the mythical Emerald City of the Wizard of Oz, Yellow Brick Road and Judy Garland.
Elephant Park, London
Hardscape Products Ltd
Elephant Park, in essence a sculptural work of art, features rocky boulder mounds over two metres high, covering an area of 420sq metres and is constructed entirely from 600 colourful Prima Porphyry stone blocks and boulders, an igneous rock formed 230 million years ago, all meticulously sourced by Hardscape from a quarry in the Albiano region of northern Italy.
Elk Mill, Oldham
Hardscape Products Ltd
Hardscape has helped bring local history to life working with Vector Design Landscape Architects and sculptor Emma Hunter as part of the Elk Mill Shopping Park redevelopment project in Oldham.
The landscape architects were commissioned by owners, British Land, to create a scheme marking the legacy of Elk Mill – Oldham’s last working cotton mill, which originally started production in 1928 as the largest in the UK.
Flemingate, Beverley
Hardscape Products Ltd
Hardscape provided advice and technical guidance to Vector Design Concepts who in turn specified Hardscape’s hard landscaping materials for a £120million council-approved retail development to transform an unoccupied site in Beverley, East Yorkshire, into a modern shopping environment.
Goose Green, Altrincham
Hardscape Products Ltd
Trafford’s Mayor and Mayoress also attended to formally re–open the new-look square. Councillor Michael Young, Altrincham Forward board member, added: “Goose Green is the first completed area of Phase 1 of the public realm work in Altrincham and we have been delighted with the positive response to the improvements from both businesses and the public. The new pedestrian-friendly layout was designed with the aim of accommodating more community events within the square, and it is great to see Al
Great Howard Street Bridge, Liverpool
Hardscape Products Ltd
The first stages of Liverpool City Council’s £32million development project to improve Great Howard Street (A565), which links Liverpool and Sefton, are now well underway. As part of the scheme, a new abutment has been constructed to create a visually spectacular design feature for the new gateway to Liverpool, reflecting the city’s rich legacy.
High Street, Rhyl
Hardscape Products Ltd
Work started on improvements to the town’s thoroughfare in May 2015 with Contractors Dawnus Construction assigned for the main phase of the project in conjunction with Denbighshire County Council. It involved the complete reconstruction of the carriageway and footways in the southern section of the high street between Wellington Road and Kinmel Street. Trees were planted and new seats and new litter bins were installed throughout.
HMS Caroline and Pump House, Belfast
Hardscape Products Ltd
The biggest regeneration project undertaken in recent years in the Titanic Quarter, namely the £20 million restoration of Belfast’s Alexandra Dock, Pump House and surrounding HMS Caroline areas was formally opened in March 2018.
Holywood Public Realm, Belfast
Hardscape Products Ltd
Mervyn Storey MLA the Social Development Minister within the Northern Ireland Assembly officially opened the new look Holywood Town Centre, post a £2.4million investment in the public realm, during December 2016. The project was funded in partnership between the Department for Social Development (DSD) and Ards & North Down Borough Council.
Irish Infantry Grove, National Memorial Arboretum, Burton-on-Trent
Hardscape Products Ltd
A fitting tribute to Ireland’s infantry war dead has been gracefully completed in Staffordshire at The National Memorial Arboretum. Depicted within this impressive and iconic memorial is artscape, used to create a map design as a monumental reminder of the sacrifice that Irish Infantry Regiments have made in service with the British Army since 1689, including both the recent World Wars and subsequent conflicts.
Kidderminster Public Realm
Hardscape Products Ltd
The IBI Group were commissioned by Wyre Forest District Council to develop a vision for a comprehensive 8,000m2 makeover of Kidderminster Town Centre’s public realm which commenced in October 2015 and completed October 2016.
Kings Cross Station, London
Hardscape Products Ltd
The modernised area around King’s Cross opened on Thursday 26th September 2013 by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who laid one of the final paving stones on the new King’s Cross Square. In April 2010, Stanton Williams Architects were announced as the winners of a Network Rail competition for the design of a new 7000m² square to the front of King’s Cross Station, as part of the King’s Cross Redevelopment Programme. Sir David Higgins, Network Rail’s chief executive, joined the mayor to congratulate teams hard at work on the final touches to the project.
Kirkstall Forge Station, Leeds
Hardscape Products Ltd
The opening of Kirkstall Forge train station marked a significant milestone in the development of the area in Leeds which has been undergoing a significant transformation.
Hardscape worked alongside landscape architects Planit-IE to create a contemporary paving scheme that would help put the new riverside development at Kirkstall and the new station on the map, to achieve its commercial and residential potential. Multiple paving materials were used in the scheme including the stunning Kellen Sferio Bianco Perla.
Lagan Weir Footbridge and Lookout, Belfast
Hardscape Products Ltd
The new Lagan Weir Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge, which connects Donegall Quay with Queen’s Quay, replaces the old footbridge and represents a £5million investment in the city from the department.
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