Location: Wakefield
Construction Value: £100 million

Recognised as the most significant project in Wakefield for twenty years, the Marsh Way regeneration scheme is set to transform the city centre improving retail provision and dramatically enhancing the general amenity of the City centre. The project includes a new department store, public library with roof top terrace, a re-located Sainsbury's Superstore.

The concept for this scheme, prepared in conjunction with our specialist Masterplanning team, works to fit seamlessly into the existing city framework and connect the city centre and new retail quarter to outlying, and often forgotten, neighbourhoods. Central to the design was the desire to provide a high quality public realm to invigorate and enliven this new mixed-use quarter.

Gordon Young

Gordon Young was educated at the Royal College of Art. In 1982 Gordon became curator at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and went on to become Director at the Welsh Sculpture Trust, after which he decided to become a full time artist. Gordon Young has acted as Lead Artist on a wide range of regeneration projects including the Fish Pavement Trail, Hull, Plymouth Waterfront Walkway, which has won him international acclaim, and the Carlisle Millennium Gallery. The Millennium Gallery project included Young's infamous Cursing Stone commission. The artist lives and works in Somerset.

 

Anna Sandberg

Anna Sandberg was born in Sweden and studied Product Design at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London. While working with muf Architecture/Art, Anna was involved in a Creative Partnership project, master planning two playgrounds for two junior schools in Herne Bay and Whitstable, Kent. In February 2005 Anna collaborated with Anish Kapoor to develop an art piece for a New Museum in New York. The artist is currently working with Fluid Design Ltd, an architectural practice that believes that public consultation, dialogue and participation are central to the design process. Together with Fluid, Anna is developing an Area Action Plan for Hackney Borough Council. The artist
lives and works in London.

 

Denna Jones

Denna Jones was educated at the University of Missouri, after which she studied History of Dress at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. From 1996-2000 Denna curated numerous exhibitions for the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest independent biomedical grant funding charity.One of Denna's most high profile projects included re-creating artist Helen Chadwick's site specific work, 'Blood Hyphen' at the Woodbridge Chapel, as part of the Barbican Art Gallery's Chadwick Retrospective exhibition. Denna Jones founded Paracity in July 2004, an international agency that achieves real time solutions to enhance the way we live. In 2005 Denna became Designer in Residence, BA (Hons) Arts, Design and Environment, Central Saint Martins College of Art. The artist lives and works in London.

Wakefield Civic Society Awards - Commendation in the New Build Category 2012