MediaCityUK scoops Regeneration Project of the Year at the 2015 MIPIM UK Awards

MediaCityUK has won Regeneration Project of the Year at the 2015 Estate Gazette's MIPIM UK Awards.  Now in their second year, the MIPIM UK Awards celebrate excellence in the built environment, rewarding the efforts of developers and partners from the private and public sectors working to revitalise cities and towns across the UK.

MediaCityUK's category - Regeneration Project of the Year - celebrates large-scale, mixed-use development projects that are reshaping and reinventing the urban realm.

Editor of Estates Gazette, Damian Wild said: "These awards celebrate those who are making a difference to the urban fabric of the UK.  What impressed our judges was the innovation, diversity and tenacity shown by all the winners in areas where fresh thinking is desperately needed.  Some of the projects will contribute to speeding up delivery of much-needed affordable housing, others will help rebalance the economy away from London."

MediaCityUK, for developer Peel Group, has transformed a 15-hectare derelict dockland site in the heart of Salford Quays into a leading digital and creative media hub for established and new businesses.  Completed in 2010, and including some of the largest and best equipped studios in Europe, the first phase of this project has created a highly successful mixed-use development that includes the new home for the BBC, ITV, Salford University and micro-businesses. The development was awarded the status of first sustainable community in the world by BREEAM 2011.

Gillespies have been responsible for the entire public realm forming part of the phase 1 development.  But the transformation of MediaCityUK continues apace.  Since the opening of Phase 1 - and alongside architects such as Chapman Taylor, Sheppard Robson and Hodder’s -  Gillespies have been the landscape architect for a range of new projects including a new headquarters for BUPA, iconic restaurant for the Living Ventures Group, new waterside apartment blocks on along the Ship Canal, new 112-bed hotel and the landscape masterplanning of ambitious plans for future development at MediaCityUK that will include circa 200,000 square metres of new residential-led mixed-use development.

Image courtesy of Ian Dagnall