Broadcasting Place
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The former Trinity St Davids Congregational Church provides a unique context for Broadcasting Place
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Cor-ten clad mixed-use development, rising to 23-storeys in four cantilevered blocks, enveloping the existing listed Old Broadcasting House in Leeds
Broadcasting Place is a mixed-use development for Leeds Metropolitan University and property group Downing. It provides about 10,200 m2 of office and teaching space, 240 student residences in the tower volume, and a Baptist church embedded into its northern-most corner.
The scheme was conceived as three forms that resemble geological outcrops: Block A, the Humanities Building, which fronts Woodhouse Lane and contains lecture theatres, seminar rooms, offices and a shared foyer, rising from three to six storeys; Block B, the Arts Building, that addresses the more hostile environment of the A660 with robust workshop/studio space, falling from eight to seven storeys; and Block C, Broadcasting Tower, to the south, in which 22 of its 23 floors are divided into two clusters of five single rooms and one studio flat.
The facade system was developed in detail around the particular material properties of Cor-ten steel. Gaps between components must be at least 5mm wide to ensure water cannot get trapped and cause corrosion. The Cor-ten cassettes are attached to a modified version of a standard rainscreen carrier system fixed to SIPs panels.
Data
- Begun: Jun 2007
- Completed: Sep 2009
- Floor area: 17,723m2
- Sectors: Residential, Office
- Total cost: £50M
- Procurement: Design and Build
- Address: Broadcasting Place, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9PD, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Client: Downing and Leeds Metropolitan University
- Structural engineer: Halcrow Yolles
- Main contractor: George Downing Construction
- Quantity surveyor: Ridge and Partners
- Landscape architect: Robert Myers Associates
- Services engineer: KGA Trinity Chamber
- Facade consultant: Montresor Partnership
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