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The proposal to replace this with a residential building, ‘Marina Point’, provides an opportunity to acknowledge the significance that this space has. From the outset our team, and especially our architects, have been fully aware that any new building in this location would by its introduction create a new skyline. As a direct result our brief centred on developing a response that was not only qualitative in its material content but also interesting in its visual appearance.
Where the building interacts with the views from the Regency terraces equal care has been given. As a result the height of Marina Point has been determined by its relationship with the views across Lewes Crescent. Our proposals sit above the eastern part of Lewes Crescent, at a point when only the last two houses of the crescent are visible owing to the trees in the foreground. Marina Point moves in and out of view as you move around the crescent.
The height of Marina Point, which is the tallest of those proposed, sits at 28 storeys, respecting the above context, set away from the cliffs while responding to the scale of the new Brunswick development.
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Parking is concealed within the body of the building over three floors.
Harbour Square creates a new foreground, a significant new space (over 5,304 square metres), allowing Marina Point’s unique architecture to establish itself as a pivotal marker, a centrepiece to the Marina. The top hat section of the building has been revisited and now offers up a unique viewing platform for Natural England to observe the cliff, the Downlands and the proposed National park.