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This mixed-use building for Amadeus Developments provides a new landmark to the northern gateway of Preston. The proposals replace an existing inner city car park with a 120-bed hotel, 56 residential units and 1,700m² of retail space.
The scheme achieves the requirements of the brief imaginatively within the constraints of the site. Three different building types are combined within one development, positioned on a triangular site with three very distinct edges, bound by existing buildings in each corner.
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These types are arranged around three sides of a courtyard open to the southern edge. Each use is expressed differently through the external elevations while the internal elevations to the courtyard are treated as one.
A two-storey plinth contains the retail units, residential lobby and all areas of the hotel other than the bedrooms. The residential units and hotel bedrooms rise above the plinth with half overlooking the inner courtyard.
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