How To Pform Vitoria'S Warehouse Into A World-Class Shopping Center?

How to pform Vitoria's warehouses into world-class standards

A famous architect, Heatherwick Studio founder Thomas Heatherwick Heatherwick, is responsible for the development of the Coal Drops Yard development project in king cross area of London.

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Near the central Saint Martin Institute (Central Saint Martins) and Granary Square, the new Coal Drops Yard mall shopping center consists of two large buildings.

The two buildings used to be coal warehouses in the Vitoria era. Trains pported coal from northern England to this warehouse, and then supplied to families and companies in London.

The reformed Coal Drops Yard will open for visitors next autumn. It is expected to have 65 stores, including 5 large stores, restaurants, galleries, music performances and new public spaces.

According to the world clothing and shoe net, recently, when Thomas Heatherwick attends FT Weekend Festival in London, it said that when preparing for a project in Hongkong earlier, it was prepared for the Coal Drops Yard project.

Thomas Heatherwick pointed out: "our mission is to pform the 1 million square feet (93 thousand square meters) space into a shopping mall with the budget of 1.56 billion.

This is the largest project undertaken by the studio in the past ten years.

The collision between the past and the modern age

Thomas Heatherwick points out that the pformation of Coal Drops Yard is not only a shopping mall, but also a place and activity space suitable for meeting.

Although London has no shortage of Covent Garden (Covent garden) as a successful comprehensive commercial body, but Thomas Heatherwick insists: Coal Drops Yard must have its own characteristics.

Built in 1850s, Coal Drops Yard itself is a very modern building.

The renovation plan not only respects the original buildings, but also adds a lot of new highlights to attract people.

Thomas Heatherwick acknowledges that it will be difficult to engage in "social networking sites", which are linked to two warehouse buildings, which are originally used for storing coal and look like Kit Kat.

Finally, Thomas Heatherwick and its studio open up two triangular walls through a curved roof "bridge space".

Thomas Heatherwick said that many people initially assumed that "you refresh the appearance and interior of the two buildings in Vitoria, and then put bridges and shops in.

It's great. It's not much different from Covent Garden, but there's already a Covent Garden in reality. "

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There is also a natural inherent advantage in the Covent Garden of pition Mall: the distance between the main building shops is similar to that of the shopping center.

The two buildings of Coal Drops Yard do not have this advantage -- the length of each building is equivalent to that of a St Paul s Cathedral, and the shops are also far away from each other in the Drops.

Thomas Heatherwick pointed out that the solution must not be to put a bridge, or even two or more.

"It needs a new floor and a core.

I do not understand Feng Shui, but the two "long sticks" do not create a core.

Building Thomas Heatherwick's "core" is a challenge facing the studio. "Fortunately, these buildings are full of characteristics, spirit and history, which are all new things dream of.

We tend to be too dependent on history. Queen Victoria didn't even try to build these warehouses.

They are just warehouses, and the special thing is the structure of two buildings.

The idea of adding a glass shell to the outside and keeping the original interior intact is not appropriate.

Thomas Heatherwick pointed out that because the roof of a warehouse has been burned down, the team needs to build a new roof, so when considering the need for an additional floor and connecting two buildings to reality, the roof is obviously the best solution.

"We decided to rebuild the roof and rebuild it, so that the two buildings could form a new space.

We have created a space for the central Saint Martin Institute to hold a fashion show here.

At the same time, these two buildings are a conspicuous landmark that is easy for both sides to meet. "

The Coal Drops Yard development project has been in operation for 18 months and is expected to be completed in a year.

Thomas Heatherwick shows that they are creating a space that "can look at the whole city, integrate historical buildings and new structures".

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King cross area redevelopment

The rebuilt building is very much looked forward to, and the retail retailers announced last month are also fascinating, such as London niche glasses brand Cubitts and bag brand Lost Property of London.

Coal Drops Yard developer Argent "s" said that the mall will be integrated into fashion, handcraft, culture and other fields, so that consumers can explore "beautiful products that are carefully selected."

Coal Drops Yard is near London's busiest pportation hub. The six subway lines and three major railway stations in London: King 's Cross, St Pancras and Euston converge here, and the annual flow of three train stations is as high as 100 million.

Shopping centres hope to find more suitable tenants in addition to international chain brands, so that more consumers can come into contact with small and medium-sized fashion enterprises.

It is estimated that by the year 2019, the annual passenger flow of Coal Drops Yard will be consistent with that of the nearby King 's Boulevard, reaching 19 million passengers.

In fact, the king cross area of Coal Drops Yard is becoming one of London's most interesting retail blocks.

Brands such as Carhartt Work In Progress, 18 Montrose, Merci, Other Stories, Jigsaw and so on have been settled, or plans to set up stores in the vicinity.

Last year, Google (Google) opened a concept store to sell related products of YouTube famous bloggers.

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