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THE BOTANY
Mission Bay Block 13W, San Francisco, CA, USA The Botany, Maryhill, Glasgow, UK
The Botany area of Maryhill, Glasgow got its name from the
large number of travellers, destined for Botany Bay, who
passed through the area in the early 19th century. It had
long suffered many of the problems associated with social
deprivation; including high unemployment, crime and poor
health when the local authority approved a regeneration
plan to breathe new life into the 18 hectare site. The scheme
will eventually create more than 700 new homes – a mixture
of high quality social rented and private housing on the
banks of the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Buro Happold were commissioned to provide the multidiscipline
engineering services for the first phase of the
project, creating 35 new homes for Maryhill Housing
Association.
This 163 acre brownfield site is being developed as part
of the FOCUS regeneration programme which promotes
‘infill developments’ to provide improved housing and
transportation to all residents and enhance existing
neighbourhoods in and around the San Francisco bay.
Targeted at urban professionals, the Block 13W development
is located within a large new parkland area, just a few blocks
from the Giants AT&T Park. Due for completion in 2014, it will
comprise 273 market rate residential units spread across a
16-storey tower on the west and a five story podium on the
eastern two thirds of the site.
The properties include 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments,
designed to maximise daylight and the occupants contact
with the natural landscape. The designs were developed in
response to workshops involving local community members
and waiting list tenants.
The Maryhill Locks scheme has been awarded ‘Scottish
Sustainable Community Status’ by the Scottish Government.
Aiming to create places which raise standards in design
and sustainability, this project has now started to transform
the derelict land on the edge of the Forth and Clyde Canal,
with new homes, shops, leisure and commercial spaces and
community facilities.
Client Maryhill Housing Association Architect Elder & Cannon Architects
Image Elder & Cannon Architects
The development provides a visual and geographic centre
in the redeveloped South Mission Bay. The tower provides
a point of focus in the 5th Street corridor, forming the apex
of the Merrimac Street axis, while the podium brings the
development down to a pedestrian scale, creating a street
edge reminiscent of many residential streets in San Francisco.
Client Equity Residential Architect HKS Architects Image HKS Architects
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