Ealing Arcadia
The complete redevelopment of the Arcadia Shopping Centre, a 4.4 acre site at Ealing Broadway in West London, will provide more than 220,000 sq ft of town centre retail space with new pedestrian streets, squares and 700 new homes, including a 30 storey landmark tower.
HKR Architects are the lead consultant for the development that comprises six different buildings. John Pardey Architects were responsible of designing two of these.
Building B
This building occupies a central location onto Ealing Broadway and so is conceived as a frontispiece – a folded copper-clad portal containing a grey painted steel frame that in turn, encompasses retail frontages and balconies to apartments. The gold-coloured copper harmonises with the gold/ beige brick and terracotta Victorian buildings further along both ends of the Broadway and maintains the street scale.
Building C
This new building on Ealing Broadway, adopts the rhythm of the existing streetscape with stone piers, intersected by concrete floor edges to create a frame, which is infilled in glass with timber fins. Floating above, forming the corner, is a nine-storey zinc-clad box that wraps a white inner residential language of glazing and balconies. This building forms a gateway into the new urban space within the scheme, as well as creating a sense of place and arrival from Ealing Broadway Station.
