Pick Everard helps preserve history on site of award-winning
Highcross John Lewis car park
 As
one of the leading architectural and engineering practices in the
East Midlands, Pick Everard has a passion for futuristic innovation.
But its most recently completed project is a £30million,
nine-storey, 2,000-space car park for Leicester's new Highcross
shopping centre which also demonstrates the firm's profound respect
of the ancient past.
Pick Everard architects worked closely with construction contractor
Norwest Holst Limited (part of VINCI PLC) in Hammerson's ambitious
£350m Highcross development in Leicester.
During a mandatory archaeological survey of the site, University of
Leicester archaeologists unearthed the remains of a Roman townhouse
more than 2,000 years old and discovered the remains of a 15th
century church, St Michael's. Because of the historic importance and
rarity of these finds, the fundamental design of the car park's
substructure and pilings had to be amended. The stunning end result
is an archaeologically significant site and a uniquely designed
contemporary car park in harmonious tandem, open to the public since
September.
Pick Everard also worked with structural engineers to ensure the
protection of the historical finds, not least so as to be able to
take advantage of improved excavation and analysis techniques in the
future.
But in addition to the challenge of working around this unexpected
dimension, Pick Everard faced another hurdle - developing detailed
designs for the three-dimensional masterpiece concept which mirrored
the adjacent John Lewis flagship building in terms of imagination,
aesthetic creativity and overall appearance. Ironically, the car
park was always designed with Leicester's past in mind - a one-off
bespoke mesh cladding in a hexagonal weaved pattern, the first of
its kind to be used on such a scale - was chosen to echo Leicester's
old textile industry.
"It was insprational working alongside Norwest Holst on this
prestgious and high quality design project which has had such an
enormous impact on the city." explains Pick Everard architect Chris
Gilbert. "Our brief was taking concept designs and turning these
into detailed designs that could be be built, while protecting
Leicester's proud heritage. At Pick Everard, we are committed to
preserving the city's history, as much as we are to its future."
The Highcross John Lewis car park won 'Large Scheme of the Year'
Award in the recent 2008 ProCon Leicestershire Property &
Construction Awards.
Email:
helenwillson@mezzo-consultancy.co.uk
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