The Embankment

The Embankment

Client: Chelsfield plc
Year: 2003
Cost: £6.0m

Description:
A residential development at The Embankment, at the heart of Merry Hill, created 39 contemporary apartments on the site of a former steelworks. The concept made the most of the draw of this retail and leisure destination and reinforced the residential potential of Merry Hill and won the Urban Regeneration / Brownfield Development category in the 2005 House Design Awards.

The project consisted of 18 one-bedroom and 21 two-bedroom, single-storey apartments arranged in pairs around central cores. Basement-level parking was also accommodated. Stepped blocks of clean, white render, industrial-looking steel balconies and cedar wood screens represented the apartments' living areas; whilst restful, warm buff brickwork encased the bedrooms.

A statement mix of sloping and inverted patinated copper roofs which shimmer a verdant green in the sunlight, puts a finishing touch to one of the regions landmark structures.