Projects

Our masterplan for Albion Square won unanimous approval from Hull’s planning committee. Our design includes 226 new homes and a large urban park, providing environmental and wellbeing benefits.

Our plan arranges four mixed-use blocks around the new park, designed to reflect the city’s history and respond to the surrounding context. Low-rise housing will harmonise with the existing Georgian terraces, and the Three Ships—the UK’s largest restored mural—will be returned to its original position.

FaulknerBrowns’ vision for the south Boho site in Middlesbrough will revitalise the area, creating a vibrant space to live, work and enjoy.

The project will provide 340 new homes, a hotel and 140,000 sq ft of workspace. These will be set in the context of public gardens, an orchard and the historic market square.

The new developments will celebrate the site’s rich heritage and natural features, while providing a high standard of contemporary living.

After many failed attempts at regenerating this contaminated industrial site, FaulknerBrowns won the opportunity to design the commercial heart of Bristol Harbourside.

The masterplan features three buildings with retail and restaurant space, creating an engaging and active streetscape. The buildings’ upper levels have varying uses: 70 social housing units, a 180-room hotel and a large leisure space.

The main challenge was integrating diverse uses above ground while maximising the retail frontage and managing services integration, access and escape. Our approach animated this to provide a vibrant new hub on this waterfront site.

FaulknerBrowns’ aim for Carre de Soie was to revitalise a former industrial district. We transformed this 240-hectare site into a retail and leisure destination, featuring a new horse-racing grandstand, pony club, skate park, restaurants, cinema and boutiques. The fact that every rental unit was let prior to completion speaks to the success of the development.

A flowing, steel lattice-work canopy connects the units and covers the main ‘avenue’, providing a modern, distinctive identity. The design prioritises sustainability and green spaces, and is pedestrian-friendly, making it a model for contemporary urban regeneration in France.

This project saw the regeneration of Durham City’s former ice rink site into an office space for National Savings & Investments, and new headquarters for HM Passport Office. The mixed-use masterplan also provides homes for 1200 of the agency’s staff and a new, attractive, riverside environment in place of a formerly derelict site.

The building combines modern architecture with a respect for the historic context, harmonising with the surrounding cityscape, particularly the nearby UNESCO world heritage-listed cathedral and castle. The brickwork matches the local vernacular, and the zinc coated aluminium used on the roofscape and oriels weather and darken to blend with the surrounding slate and lead roofs. A clean, open-plan workplace with extensive glazing provides unparalleled views of the Durham skyline.

Underpinning the project is a focus on efficiency and simplicity. FaulknerBrowns helped to achieve this by pushing the agenda beyond the site boundary and building an alliance with adjacent stakeholders. By building these relations, we agreed to source 90% of the buildings’ annual electrical energy from the city centre hydro-turbine.

This project involved a £120 million regeneration of residential, office and commercial spaces on Wakefield’s historic waterfront. FaulknerBrowns were chosen to lead this high-value redevelopment after two previous proposals failed. Our plan was differentiated by our strategy to deliver five independent, mixed-use zones—each of which was self-supporting in terms of access, infrastructure, parking and pedestrian connectivity.

The residential component comprises 400 apartments in a mixture of historic industrial structures and new build, with commercial units on the ground floors animating the interconnected courtyards.

The masterplan was sensitive to the history and natural surroundings of the site. We collaborated with conservation architects and David Chipperfield, whose Hepworth Gallery sits on the northern edge of the masterplan. The prominent apartment balconies are constructed from ‘flitched’ timber and steel in reference to the canal-side infrastructure.