This week saw the opening of the Marketing Suite at the Hudson Quarter site in York. Members of the public can now make appointments to view the show apartment (pictured right).
Work began in February and a ground-breaking ceremony was performed by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu. Caddick Construction is the main contractor. When completed in early 2021, the development will provide 127 exceptional studio, 1, 2, 3 and 4 bedroom apartments and penthouses arranged in three blocks. A fourth building will provide 35,000 sqft net of Grade A office space just a few steps away from the City Walls and York Railway Station.
Find out more about the development on the Hudson Quarter website here.was performed
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has conducted a ceremonial groundbreaking on the Hudson Quarter site, in Central York to herald the start of construction work.
The two-acre development on the site of the former Hudson House was designed by Fuse for Palace Capital plc. It will provide 127 luxury apartments, 34,500 sq ft of Grade-A office space and 5,000 sq ft of other commercial uses, located in four buildings around a landscaped central courtyard.
The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu said:
“I was delighted to conduct a ceremonial ground breaking ceremony at Hudson Quarter.
It signals work is starting on this ambitious development in the heart of York that will provide a high quality new place for people to live and work.
The proposals have a wow factor and I look forward to seeing it being built over the next two years.”
The site represented an interesting challenge to the Fuse team; as it lies within an area synonymous with large, railway related buildings and yet on the West is bounded by smaller, compact buildings which are more typical of York’s historic city core. The resultant scheme sees four brick clad buildings that respond to their context through massing, materiality and roofscape.
More details of the development can be found on the Hudson Quarter Website.
Nominations have been announced for this year’s prestigious Yorkshire Property Awards and Fuse is delighted to be amongst the nominees for the third year in succession.
Fuse has been shortlisted for the ‘Yorkshire Pride’ Award. This award is all about demonstrating to the wider world just how great the good people of Yorkshire really are! It is given to Yorkshire based teams or companies that have achieved recognition outside the region for projects and initiatives inside or outside of Yorkshire.
The Fuse nomination is for our work across the globe with Hard Rock International.
Since we started working with Hard Rock in 2010, we have worked on projects in more than 20 countries from the USA to Russia and India to Kazakhstan, not to mention all over Europe. For a number of years, we worked mainly on the world-famous chain of Hard Rock Cafes, but in recent years, we have been working on the growing number of Hard Rock Hotels, including 3 major hotels in mainland Europe.
As ever, the Awards Ceremony will be attended by around 1,000 guests from the property and development world and will again be held at the Rudding Park Hotel near Harrogate on Thursday 9th May.
The event will be in aid of Variety, the children’s charity, and has raised many hundreds of thousands of pounds for this hugely worthwhile cause over the 28 years of the awards.
Construction is now well advanced on the latest addition to the Manchester skyline – Angel Gardens.
The scheme, co-designed with Glasgow-based architects HAUS Collective, includes an iconic 35 storey tower and provides a total of 458 one, two and three bedroom apartments set around semi-private interactive gardens alongside bars, restaurants and retail space. Angel Gardens will be the flagship of Moda, one of the UKs leading BTR brands, and is the first major residential component of The Co-operative Group and Hermes Investment Management’s NOMA masterplan.
Angel Gardens will extend to 530,000sq.ft including two levels of underground parking offering 149 car spaces. At ground floor level, 19,000sq.ft of commercial restaurants and cafés will activate the street frontages and a new pedestrian street is to be created from Miller Street to Angel Street providing quality public realm faced with commercial units.
The development comprises 4 distinct volumes arranged in a pinwheel plan: the main tower addressing the key intersection between Miller Street / Rochdale Road / Swan Street / Shudhill; and three 7 storey blocks addressing Miller Street, Angel Street and Angel Mews. The 7-storey block fronting Miller Street has a single storey extension of the external façade system to enclose the rooftop resident amenity facilities.
Completion is due to be achieved in 2019. Caddick Construction is delivering the scheme.
The Fuse-designed student village at Lawrence Street in York has been shortlisted for the ‘Residential Development of the Year 2018’ award at the Insider Yorkshire Property Awards. This comes hot on the heels of shortlistings in the 2018 RIBA Awards, the 2018 RICS Awards, the 2018 Construction News Awards and the 2018 York Design Awards – where the project scooped the Best Large Residential Development Award.
The project was designed for Select Property Group, the UK’s market-leading developer and operator of student accommodation and provides 644 student rooms in 15 new and 3 listed existing buildings set in a stunning, mature landscape surrounding a former convent building – which now houses the community facilities. Fuse began working on the project in 2014 and it opened its doors to the first student residents in September 2017.
To read a detailed case study of the project, click here.
A planning decision is anticipated soon for the latest Fuse-designed student accommodation project, for market-leading developer Vita Group.
The 323 bedroom scheme is located in the heart of Nottingham city centre: immediately adjacent to the listed Nottingham rail station. The prominent site also borders Nottingham Canal and the Vita Student building is part of a larger mixed-use development, including a separate new office building. The site is conveniently located for local amenities and the development will play an important part in the regeneration of this part of the historic city centre.
The project is currently out to tender and a start on site is anticipated in October this year. Final completion is planned for August 2020 – in advance of the beginning of the new academic year.
We will keep you up to speed with progress as this amazing project evolves…
Click here to see the most recently completed Vita student development in York which opened on schedule in time for the current academic year.
Hot on the heels of a number of high profile awards in 2017, 2018 has begun with further recognition for our work. In the last month or so, we have learned that our projects and team have been shortlisted for no less than four further awards!
Three of the nominations are for our acclaimed VITA Student project in York. The new “Student Village” provides 644 bedrooms across 15 new buildings within the grounds of a Grade II listed, former convent. A number of listed buildings and structures within this attractively landscaped, seven-acre site have been sensitively refurbished as part of the works.
The first shortlisting for was in the residential category of the Yorkshire & Humber RICS Awards 2018. The second was in the Construction News Awards 2018, for Project of the Year (for projects over £30m in value) submitted by main contractor, Wates Construction. The latest nomination is for a Regional RIBA Award, with the decision being announced at the RIBA Yorkshire Awards in May. These three short-listings recognise the design quality of what is a very sympathetic redevelopment of an historic site, in the heart of York. Well done to the team!
The final shortlisting of the four comes from the Yorkshire Property Awards. There is no ‘Architect of the Year Award’ this year (so we get to retain the title for an extra twelve months!) Instead Fuse has been shortlisted for the ‘Export Award’ in recognition of our national and international success working around the UK and further afield. Since Fuse was founded in 2010, the Fusiliers have worked on projects in no less than twenty countries across world, many for Hard Rock International and its partners. We have partnered successfully with locally-based architects, engineers and project managers and have made many friends around the globe.
Here is the full list of the countries we have worked in: Spain (projects in Seville & Barcelona); France (Marseilles, Nice & Paris); Belgium (Brussels); The Netherlands (Amsterdam); Austria (Vienna): Germany (Berlin); Czech Republic (Prague); Italy (Florence & Venice); Malta (St Georges Bay); Denmark (Copenhagen); Turkey (Istanbul); Estonia (Tallinn); Russia (Saint Petersburg); Kazakhstan (Almaty); India (Goa); USA (Tampa and Hollywood)… and, of course, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland – with too many cities to list here.
August 2017
Nominations have been announced for the Insider Yorkshire Property Awards 2017 and we are delighted to reveal that Fuse is shortlisted for Architectural Firm of the year. This nomination comes hot on the heels of winning Architect of the Year 2017 at the Variety Yorkshire Property Awards.
Although Fuse works nationally and internationally (we have completed projects from Southampton to Aberdeen and have worked in no less than 20 other countries since Fuse was founded in 2010) we still have an exciting and diverse workload in our home county. The photographs (right) show a selection of our recent projects in God’s own country – covering education, residential, retail, gaming, workplace and hospitality projects, both architecture and interior design.
This year’s Awards event will be held at the New Dock Hall in Leeds on Thursday, 28 September 2017 and will be hosted by TV presenter Mark Durden-Smith, again celebrating the fantastic work by developers, agencies, advisers and architects across Yorkshire and the Humber over the past year.
The full list of nominations can be found on the Insider website here.
May 2017
Winner, winner….
We are absolutely delighted to announce that Fuse was voted Best Architect at theYorkshire Property Awards at Rudding Park in Harrogate on May 4th.
This highly prestigious award ceremony raises hundreds of thousands of pounds for the Variety Club every year and last night was attended by nearly a thousand members of the Yorkshire property world. The awards are highly regarded and recognise outstanding achievement in several fields.
We are thrilled to have shared the winning platform with other amazing Yorkshire businesses and we are especially proud to have won the Best Architect Award just 6 years after Fuse was founded.
Huge thanks go to all our client, consultant and contractor friends that have worked with us during these first 6 years and have entrusted us with some remarkable projects. Most importantly of all however, our sincere thanks go to the wonderful Fusiliers whose hard work, talent and dedication have made this win possible.
Thank you guys! Roll on the next 6 years….
To learn more about the remarkable work done by the Variety charity, take a look at their website here.
