Whittle Arch and Glass Bridge, Coventry
2003
The Phoenix Initiative is Coventry City Council’s most extensive city centre regeneration project to date. The £20M scheme has created an attractive journey from the Cathedral Quarter down to the Museum of British Road Transport, tracing the city's thousand year history along the way.
The City Council, with its architects, has drawn up designs for the city that have created new spaces that are both imaginative and functional. Priory Place, set to give Coventry something to rival Birmingham's Brindley Place with café bars and new city centre housing, and Millennium Place, a fantastic new open plaza capable of hosting all kinds of outdoor entertainment, are the two civic spaces.
The Millennium Place incorporates two structural steelwork features, designed by architects MacCormac Jamieson Prichard with engineers whitbybird that are unique. The Place is overlooked by the twin arch structure of the Whittle Arch, and the spectacular glass bridge that spirals out of Millennium Place and provides an impressive new view of the city.
Image 1 courtesy of www.cvone.co.uk
Fact file
Client
Coventry City Council
Architect
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard
Main Contractor
Butterley Construction
Structural Engineer
Whitbybird
Steelwork Contractor - Glass Bridge
Rowecord Engineering Limited
Steelwork Contractor - Whittle Arch
Westbury Structures Limited
