Ashiru-Smiles Architecture
Mixed-Use Projects
South Quay
with BUJ Architects
£50m
2012
The 51 storey residential led mixed-use scheme comprises of a 110 bedroom boutique hotel, 143 shared equity and social rental residential units and 275 private rental units. In addition to this a crèche, cinema and winter gardens are proposed at high level.
Retail units are proposed at ground floor level to maximise footfall and provide street active frontage.
City Forum
with BUJ Architects
£175m
Planning 2009
The City Forum, I was an underutilised brownfield site in Islington, London. The proposal site benefited not only from its close proximity to Angel centre and Old Street, but also its location at the southern end of the City Road basin, part of the historical Regent’s canal basin.
The development of masterplan for the 1.8 acre site in north London so the creation of a mixed use scheme which would create 720 new homes, 10,800 sqm of commercial (B1) space, 2,390 sqm of retail shop space, 1,112 sqm of (A3) restaurant space, 160 room student accommodation halls of residence, and a 125 bedroom hotel. The design ethos was to provide a coherent spatial connection between the city basin masterplan to the north and the site, encouraging pedestrian flow between public facilities and events.
Odyssey
with BUJ Architects
£55m
2000
A mixed development on a 4.8-acre brown field site on the Isle of Dogs. The development provided 450 private and affordable homes in an area earmarked for regeneration.
Included as an intergral part of the development were; a number of commercial retail units, a gymnasium and new public amenity spaces.