![]() The result is a cut-back and roof terrace at both ends of the building. The office’s massing was carefully conceived to minimize the visual impact when viewed from outside the City Walls and be respectful to the adjacent listed Toft Green Chambers building. Hudson Quarter boosts the first speculative office to be built within the City Walls in decades, HQ’s office has been designed to be let either to a single occupier or on a floor-by-floor basis. The courtyard includes a gazebo with power and lighting, which residents can use when working (or playing!) from home. A single brick type was used to clad the buildings: its selection key in tying the buildings to their location and providing the architecture with a calm, timeless quality.Ĭentral to this place-making approach is the residents’ fully landscaped courtyard, providing the apartment dwellers with valuable external amenity space and secure access to each of the residential buildings. The massing of Hudson Quarter’s buildings was carefully designed to step down from Toft Green towards the City Walls, so as not to dominate the latter. Given there is a 5.5m level difference to overcome, this was quite a challenge! Working alongside re-form landscape architects, a new, fully accessible route was conceived. During this time Fuse worked collaboratively with the design team and officers from City of York Council (CoYC) to develop a scheme that positively responded to its surrounding context.įurthermore, the officers of CoYC were keen to see a new public pedestrian connection between the nearby train station and the Micklegate area. Fuse and other members of the design team therefore undertook an extensive Pre-App consultation process. The site is in a highly sensitive location, only a few metres from York City Walls, and required a very sympathetic design solution. ![]() However, following discussion with City of York Council (CoYC) the client decided that a full redevelopment of the whole site would be of better long-term benefit for their shareholders and the city.įuse’s brief was therefore to maximise the development value of the site, whilst ensuring planning approval could be gained: not straight-forward when working in historic York and when the site borders the City Walls, is overlooked by the planning office and is a stone’s throw from Historic England’s office! Fuse was originally appointed to obtain a Permitted Development planning approval for the re-use of the building, which was granted in 2016. When Palace Capital plc purchased the property, it contained an existing 1960’s office building, Hudson House. The project was fully completed in April 2021. Fuse was appointed by Palace Capital plc in 2014 as architects and interior designers for this scheme and were later novated to Caddick Construction during the delivery stages. ![]() The accommodation is housed in three residential buildings and one office, around a central courtyard. Hudson Quarter (HQ) is a mixed-use development of 127 apartments and circa 4,000sqm office space. ![]()
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