Major urban regeneration project on Gateshead Quays, opposite the Gateshead Millennium Bridge and linking and providing an appropriate urban setting for the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts and The Sage Gateshead.
Competition-winning proposals developed over a 3- month period Wide range of project stakeholders
25 metre change of level across the site.
Carefully considered urban design, to create family.friendly pedestrian environment with integrated network of streets, squares, gardens and terraces
Comprises:
• Over 300 apartments
• Retail
• Bars
• Restaurants
• A 9-screen cinema
• 300-bedroom 4 hotel
• Energy centre, including “shopfront” with educational resource explaining use of CHP system
• Secure public cycle parks
• Underground parking and servicing
• Proposal for cable car link to Gateshead town centre, extending regeneration benefits from
waterfront to depressed town centre
2006