BWB Consulting - Integrated Engineering and Environmental Consultants
The Pod, Bottle Lane
Location: Nottingham
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The Bottle Lane development is an important landmark site in the heart of the city of Nottingham. The building is situated centrally between the commercial, retail and cultural areas of the city and is a modern yet sensitive addition to the city townscape.
Bottle Lane consists of three retail floors, a two storey bar and restaurant complete with a terrace garden, and a four storey hotel over the retail floors. The hotel also utilises a retained Victorian frontage to form a contrasting street level entrance.
BWB have had a longstanding involvement in the Bottle Lane site, culminating in an architectural design competition for which BWB acted as adjudicators for the developer, Bildurn Properties, and project manager, Gleeds. BWB are now working with London based architects, Benson & Forsyth, and contractor, Laing O´Rourke, to create a unique building that incorporates a number of interesting features. These include large glazed areas and various cantilevering structures that give the appearance that parts of the building are defying gravity. Despite the upper hotel floors the structure achieves a wide grid layout to suit retail demands. This is achieved by utilizing post tensioned concrete flat slab construction. The complexity of the superstructure is matched below ground where complex foundations are required to support the building over an existing railway tunnel.
