Whitehall Riverside
At the heart of Leeds’ emerging West End, this riverside community offers an exceptional business location where award winning architects Carey Jones have masterplanned stunning glazed office buildings set amongst well defined open spaces. The quality of these wide-open spaces and the development’s unique urban environment are seen as equally important to the design of the buildings. The series of pedestrian spaces, interconnected to the site, vary in form and character and provide vistas across the Leeds cityscape, and a new riverside walkway complements the site.Perfectly located, Whitehall Riverside lies only a short distance along the riverside walkway from both the railway station and the city centre. The masterplan includes 546,000 sq ft of office space, in addition to 400 residential units and cafe/bar retail units. Nearby within the West End are a wealth of shopping facilities as well as the city’s best restaurants and bars. The site is seen as a gateway to an area of Leeds which is currently undergoing substantial regeneration.
Ecological considerations have been a central issue in the redevelopment of the site, and significant moves were made to stabilise the riverbank in the initial phases of the development. The construction of Whitehall Riverside included a comprehensive ecological design which seeks to enhance the local habitat, particularly to the benefit of the local otter population.