Robinson Patterson See The Bigger Picture
Published on 04-04-2008 by Skyscrapernews.com
This sixteen storey mixed use project comes from Big Picture Developments who hope to build the scheme in Belfast, Northern Ireland's largest city.
Called the Lighthouse, the scheme will sit on a site bordered by Great St George's Street and Nelson Street off the M3 Cross Harbour that passes over the River Lagan.
This is one of the main arterial routes and one that leads practically to the centre of Belfast. It has found itself as the centrepoint for a number of other proposed tall schemes on its approach to the city centre including Bridge End and Dalton Street.
Designed by architects, the Robinson Patterson Partnership as a series of interlinked blocks, the scheme will contain 150 new housing units, 17,000 square metres of office space, plus ground floor retail and parking for residents and office occupiers alike.
Plenty of blue glazing and white render framing the large glass sections is used in the design giving it a corporate post modern feeling that tightly unites the buildings aesthetics. There is a clear visual division in the blocks but not enough for it to avoid appearing monolithic.
The blocks combine walling off the outside and creating an interior courtyard for residents to enjoy whilst the stepped roof lines and rising height to one corner of the site help create a more interesting building profile but the sheer conservativeness of what's on offer stops it from being the right side of bland.
The end result is a large scale scheme, greatly restrained, that if approved by Belfast City Council is unlikely to lit up the skyline like it's name aspirationally hints at.
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