City centre redevelopment, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Competition entry, short listed for second stage
From identity crisis to urban renaissance - from ‘shop & run’ to ‘stay & play’: The concept of our proposed scheme for redevelopment of the currently fragmented city centre is based on the notion of acupuncture, hence the scheme aims to invigorate and connect associated areas via a network of relations and spatial interconnection of specific points of action.
On Fountain square, one of the focal areas, decayed building stock has
been withdrawn to provide space for the interactive Fountain of Light
creating an urban square for changing cultural and commercial activities.
Here, strategic cultural investment is combined with the development of
public space, so as to provide better footfall and initiate private investment.