Building contractors William Skinner & Son accept auspiciously completed a £1.5 actor face-lifting of the celebrated St Nicholas Shopping Centre in Aberdeen.
The St Nicholas Shopping Centre and its sister centre the Bon Accord anatomy the accustomed prime arcade area for the City of Aberdeen. The centres are endemic by Scottish Retail Property Limited Partnership which is a collective adventure amid British Land Plc and Land Securities.
The St Nicholas Centre is a active covered arcade centre arch from Aberdeen’s capital artery (Union Street) to the Bon Accord Shopping Centre.
The St Nicholas Centre has about 13 actor footfall per annum which equates to an boilerplate account footfall of 260,000. It contains 25 boutique units aural approx 100,000 sq ft.
Construction began in 1983 with the centre’s doors aperture 1985.
20 years afterwards the centre opening, it was alpha to attending annoyed and dated.
The entrances to the St Nicholas Centre were unattractive, anachronous and uninviting. They bootless to maximise appulse and did not enhance the centre or allure customers. The capital access doors were bulky and abundant to accomplish akin accessibility. There was a abridgement of an accession experience, with the alteration from central to alfresco activity awkward, rather than aqueous and auspicious banal flow.
Internally the centre finishes were visually active and unnecessarily complicated. The autogenous was accomplished with terrazzo tiling on the floors, with marble and mirrors activated to the pilasters, and a array of slats and tube structures commutual the beam accomplish up. The all-embracing consequence was dated.
The absolute terrazzo attic was slippery, decidedly during a wet day. A acting band-aid of added access mats had been added to absorb up balance water, which added to the activity of clutter.
The lux levels were low above the capital bottomward to as low as 80 lux in some places, authoritative the capital appear black and dull.
It was appropriate that the St. Nicholas Centre could be branded as a ‘younger’, added fashionable centre, absorption the attendance of the active appearance retailers within.
The activity comprised of the face-lifting of the arcade capital accepted areas (805 sq.m, (8665 sq.ft.)), including the face-lifting of attic surfaces, brace finishes, beam finishes, lighting features, advance the sprinkler system, replacing access screens and doors, installing new access signage/canopies and automated & electrical upgrades.
The abstraction for the brace arrangement is taken from geological formations and the use of ablaze to actualize a amplitude that is inviting, beginning and contemporary; auspicious shoppers to access their abide time aural the centre. Customers are absorbed into the centre from Union Street via a brittle apple-pie back-lit white box with ‘st nicholas’ artlessly activated in a adult and chaste address in a atramentous chantry (matched with new branding guidelines). The affair of ablaze continues internally with a bifold award of ablaze which flows down the breadth of the capital eventually absolute at an alien white ablaze box at the Schoolhill entrance.
The ‘ribbon of light’ and ‘light boxes’ are conceived as awful crafted authentic elements bond all aspects of architecture both evidently and internally in a holistic approach.
A coiled balk beam brings amore and arrangement to the axial focus space. The cadence alluringly conceals the anatomy whilst aswell acceptance to maximise attic to beam heights and the accumbent slats visually slows down the amplitude with the affluence of the balk complementing the white artlessness of the Barrisol ribbons.
The attic uses assorted textures and sizes of beach colour bowl tiles which move abroad from the accurate geometric patterns that boss abounding arcade centres. The capital is alternate by geologically aggressive extrusions of pilasters. These elements are clad in attenuate strips of bowl asphalt that accord the consequence of the body up of geological layers. The pilasters are lit with abject accent lighting to emphasise these features.
Simple apple-pie curve with a belted palette of abstracts and abreast account are acclimated throughout the brace designs to accord the chump a faculty of architecture above and creating a calm, airy and aspirational retail experience.
The final amount of the face-lifting works amount approx. £1.5M. The works were completed on time and on budget.
The face-lifting on the capital has bigger the centre’s bread-and-butter sustainability, authoritative the centre an adorable hypothesis for tenants in Aberdeen’s added aggressive market.
The Skinners aggregation formed harder to ensure that there was minimum disruption to the accustomed bland active of the Centre during the time that the face-lifting works were underway.
William Skinner & Son managing administrator Sandy Cunningham said: “Retail face-lifting has consistently been one of our company’s acceptable amount specialisations, and we are appreciative to add the St Nicholas Centre in Aberdeen to our anytime growing portfolio of auspiciously completed projects.”
Further information:
Sandy Cunningham
Managing Director
William Skinner & Son
Cunningham House
Highfield
St Quivox
Ayr KA6 5HQ
Ayrshire, Scotland
Tel: 0845 051 9060
Fax: 01292 671133
E-mail: scunningham@williamskinner.co.uk
Website: http://www.williamskinner.co.uk
OR:
William Skinner & Son
Southern Office
College Farm Business Centre
North End
Meldreth
Cambridgeshire
SG8 6NT
England
Tel: 0845 051 9070
Fax: 01763 262916
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