Building Design Partnership - Mixed-Use Development - Leeds, Holbeck Urban Village, Round Foundry

Date: 14 Nov 2003

The first building to be completed at the Round Foundry in Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds is due to be handed over this week. Building Design Partnership are architects, landscape architects, lighting designers and acoustic consultants for developers CTP St James and Crosby Homes.

105, Water Lane provides 1000 m² of office space in a Grade II listed building. The building has been designed to meet the requirements of Leeds-based practice SMCGower Architects who are the tenants.

The Round Foundry was established over 200 years ago as a manufactory of steam engines. It is the only surviving first-generation engineering works anywhere and is considered by industrial archaeologists to be of international importance.

BDP’s scheme evolved from a conceptual masterplan prepared by Leeds architects Regan Miller Associates. It involves selective demolition of recent structures, the conservation and adaptive re-use of a number of early buildings on the site, many of them listed, and the construction of new buildings to re-create the historic street pattern which had been lost. The current phases, due to be completed next month (December 2003) will provide 96 apartments, approximately 5000 m² of office space, a mix of retail units, a pub and a restaurant. The building that gave the site its name no longer exists but is commemorated in BDP’s landscape design.

A further phase, the shell-repair of the Grade II* listed Green Sand Foundry - one of the earliest buildings on the site - is due to start on site in January 2004

Round Foundry in Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds

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