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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —

Bishop’s Bridge Road— London

Client(s)

Paddington Partnership

Collaborator(s)

Accertum / JCLA / NRP / Studio Dekka

5th studio were appointed by the Paddington Partnership to develop a series of ideas for the future of the Bishop’s Bridge Road up to RIBA Stage 2. This initial work was funded from Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) through the Hyde Park Paddington Neighbourhood Forum.

The proposals seek to improve the environment of Bishop’s Bridge Road through a series of public realm interventions aiming to address pedestrian and cyclist safety, to encourage other users, and to create a better experience and connection between Paddington Station and the wider Opportunity Area.

The project idenitifies strategies to overcome the severances that the bridge creates across the centre of the Opportunity Area, including opening up access to the canal and celebrating its waterspace.

A range of projects were developed to support this vision, focusing on active travel through cycling and walking, improved wayfinding, reinstating key sightlines that have been lost, identifying landscaping opportunities and improved lighting quality and character.

Together these projects create place value: defining a space that adds health, social, economic and environmental value for Paddington and generates a clearly legible public realm.

Key Principles:

  • Soften the impact of vehicular traffic and improve cycling provision;
  • Improve access to local assets and amenities; and
  • Create a safer environment for pedestrians.

The project was published for public consultation between July 2022 and the end of December 2022.

A key move in the concept design, is dividing the bridge into three areas, each with their own characteristics and constraints. These areas are:

  • Canalside – access to, and celebration of, the canal and waterfront;
  • Movement – new crossings, road space and footway realignments; and
  • Rail Crossing – low-level planting and lighting to soften the impact of the road increase pedestrian comfort and feeling of safety.

View illustrating a range of opportunities including: the decluttered and widened footpath; a new parapet structure that allows views to the canal below; inclusion of planting at bridge level to soften the area and inclusion of cycle lanes and a new pedestrian crossing.
The existing footway is cluttered, causing ‘pinch points’, with street furniture and redundant highway infrastructure presenting obstacles to pedestrians, and providing few pedestrian dwelling locations.
There is a current lack of soft landscaping on Bishop’s Bridge Road and the lower level canalside amenities are hidden from view by solid bridge parapets.
View illustrating a range of opportunities including: new planting opportunities to soften the bridge and create a barrier between pedestrians and traffic; a new parapet structure that allows views to the canal; decluttered and widened footpaths; inclusion of dedicated cycle lanes and a new pedestrian crossing.
View illustrating a range of opportunities including: the new road layout with inclusion of dedicated cycle lanes; low level planting to soften the environment; decluttered and widened footpaths and zones for characterful artwork which add graphics and colour to the bridge parapets.
Bishop’s Bridge Road is a popular route for cyclists with but lacks any segregated infrastructure.

Related

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Paddington Public Realm Strategy — London

A vision for North Paddington aiming to improve walking and cycling connectivity, lighting, public realm and wayfinding

Vauxhall Cross — London

Transformation of one of London's busiest gyratories to create a new transport interchange, bus station and improved public realm

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