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The resort underpins the United Arab Emirates’ aspirations to become a focal point for global tourism.   The Yas South Integrated Destination Resort provides Abu Dhabi with a fantastic new hospitality and leisure complex including an 18,000 seat indoor entertainment arena, a 604 bedroom family hotel, retail, food and beverage offers and a series of carefully landscaped public spaces. The scheme forms part of a much wider masterplan to transform Yas Island in to a one-stop destination for tourism and business.   As part of a multi-disciplinary design team, Pascall+Watson have worked across all of the assets to bring the developer’s vision to life.   The entertainment arena has flexibility at its core; it can... More

The award-winning arena forms the centre-piece of Abu Dhabi’s new entertainment district.   As part of the visionary Yas South Integrated Destination Resort in Abu Dhabi, the Yas Arena provides a state-of-the-art multi-purpose entertainment complex. Designed in collaboration with HOK and WSP, the facility is the first of its kind in the region.   The innovative and highly flexible venue can efficiently adapt from an 18,000 capacity in-the-round stadium format to an intimate 500 seat theatre, supporting a variety of events and activities including sports, concerts, stage shows, conventions and community gatherings.   Recognised by the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Green Building Awards as ‘Sustainable Build... More

The Snow Play Park provides a spectacular addition to the United Arab Emirates’ expanding portfolio of leisure facilities.   The Reem Snow Play Park forms the centre-piece of the Reem Mall in Abu Dhabi. As part of a multi-disciplinary team, Pascall+Watson provided architectural design services to the spectacular and unusual leisure destination.   The 11,600m² facility is themed around a snow-covered enchanted forest and delivers experiences such as sledging, zorbing and zip-lining, across several distinct zones.   The 2 Pearl-rated retail mall is one of Abu Dhabi’s most ambitious and exciting retail and recreational venues. The complex fuses an extensive range of retail, food and beverage and family-foc... More

The cinema-themed hotel is the first of its kind in the United Arab Emirates.   Located in the historic heart of Dubai, the Aloft City Centre Deira, brings a fresh approach to the traditional hotel landscape offering a lively in-hotel social scene, a vibrant interior design palette and fully integrated technology.   The 304 bedroom four-star facility is the Middle East’s first cinema-themed hotel, featuring a climate-controlled rooftop cinema and several bespoke suites specifically designed around movie-related topics such as Hollywood, Bollywood and super-heroes.   With direct connectivity to the Deira City Centre shopping mall, the facility introduces six unique dining concepts to the local area and offers busin... More

The award-winning redevelopment fuses the restoration of the historic Grade I listed rail terminus with an iconic new concourse, to deliver a spectacular multi-modal transport hub.   The dramatic redevelopment of King’s Cross Station could only have been realised via the collaborative efforts of a large team of dedicated personnel.   Pascall+Watson’s involvement centred around the creation of a new semi-circular Western Concourse, three times bigger than the previous one, to sit beneath the spectacular curving latticed roof. The generous new concourse extends the station to the west of its seven Grade 1 listed buildings, (which were refurbished and redeveloped as part of the project), providing passengers with a ne... More

Europe’s largest construction project improves connectivity across London for an estimated 200 million people a year.   The 41-station Crossrail project helps to maintain London’s position as a global city by improving urban connectivity and enabling commercial growth. The expansive scheme, which includes the new Elizabeth Line, increases passenger capacity across the capital by around 10%.   Working in collaboration with Network Rail, Pascall+Watson carried out the detailed design for all of the 13 stations along the western corridor; from Acton to Maidenhead and Heathrow.   Our work includes major new station buildings at Acton Main Line, West Ealing, West Drayton, Southall and Hayes and Harlington as well... More

The Bergen Light Rail is the first public transport system in Norway to utilise inclusive design at all levels, making the city accessible for everyone.   Bergen, on the west coast of Norway, is the country’s second largest city. The Bybanen Light Rail project constitutes the major component of the city’s 20 year investment programme to develop its public transport infrastructure and create a more sustainable network.   The scheme comprises a 7.2km extension to the existing railway line connecting Lagunen to Bergen Airport. A complex interchange, maintenance workshops and two multi-storey car parks provide the interface facilities along the route to achieve a fully integrated transport network.   One of the... More

The new campus provides a unique and distinctive learning facility for the United Arab Emirates’ capital city.   Abu Dhabi’s Zayed University represents an impressive addition to Pascall+Watson’s Education portfolio.   The university offers a contemporary learning environment for up to 6,000 students, including lecture theatres, seminar rooms, sports facilities, a library and the largest convention centre in the Middle East. The facilities are arranged as a series of individual structures clustered around a central core.   The location, in the desert on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi City, provided very little context. Consequently, in order to ground the campus and create a sense of place, the central cor... More

The facility allows Durham University to advance its pioneering medical research.   Occupying a prime riverside location, the design for the medical research laboratories at Durham University takes full advantage of both its picturesque setting and its historical context.   The building offers an inspiring environment to further interdisciplinary research in to subjects including life sciences, health and well-being. The BREEAM rated scheme boasts a number of new facilities including laboratories, seminar rooms, teaching spaces, offices, cafés and collaborative breakout areas.   Three departmental functions are represented within the building, each housed within a distinctive, stand-alone block. Service towers, d... More

The world’s first ‘super-laboratory’ has quickly established itself as an industry benchmark.   The new Science Centre at London Metropolitan University incorporates an open plan, 280-workspace science laboratory delivering state-of-the-art facilities for cross-disciplinary education. The scale of the facility and the technology it offers have led to it being termed as the world’s first ‘super-laboratory’.   Acknowledging the constraints of an extremely tight site and limited street frontage, the building’s architectural expression is more evident at the upper levels, where banks of windows reflect the university’s aims for the faculty to be both physically and metaphorically tra... More

The design of the Dyson School of Design Engineering acts as a catalyst for innovation and entrepreneurship.   The new Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London, founded with support from the James Dyson Foundation, provides contemporary learning facilities for undergraduate, masters and doctoral research students.   The school, dedicated to engineering innovation and entrepreneurship, is part of the Faculty of Engineering and runs two master’s programmes with the Royal College of Art, establishing a consolidated hub for creative minds.   The BREEAM rated design for the flagship facility brings life to the redundant historic building, which was acquired from the Science Museum.   The ref... More

The new Film & Media Centre provides a dynamic hub for the University for the Creative Arts.   Located at the university’s Farnham campus, the 1,000m² building accommodates students studying performing arts, film studies and music composition & technology, with a multitude of cutting-edge technological equipment.   Facilities include a black box film studio, a 260-seat lecture theatre, performance spaces and an acoustically sealed recording studio featuring a live room, dubbing theatre and control room.   The scheme has been designed to offer a high degree of flexibility - the film studio can be reconfigured for use as a public performance auditorium and the lecture theatre can be transformed into exh... More

The award-winning redevelopment of St Pancras International has transformed it in to an iconic gateway to Europe.   The selection of the Grade 1 listed St Pancras railway station as the new terminus for Eurostar required a highly complex programme of expansion, modernisation and restoration.   To accommodate the sleek new trains, the station was doubled in length; the concourses being extended well beyond the intricate structure of the listed Barlow Shed roof. A contemporary, minimalist ‘floating’ canopy was introduced to protect the extended platforms, creating an intriguing contrast between the old and the new.   A series of light wells were punched through the platform decks to enable natural light to pen... More

Pritzker-prize winning architect Jean Nouvel sought inspiration for the concept of Louvre Abu Dhabi in traditional Arabic architectural culture, and designed Louvre Abu Dhabi as a ‘museum city’ in the sea. Its contrasting series of white buildings take inspiration from the medina and low-lying Arab settlements. In total, 55 individual but connected buildings, including 26 galleries, make up this museum city. The façades of the buildings are made up of 3,900 panels of ultra-high performance fibre concrete (UHPC). The museum design is a collaboration between traditional design and modern construction techniques. The tranquil environment encourages visitors to enjoy the ever-changing relationship between the sun and the dome and betwee... More