We're thrilled to announce that GNA’s ‘The Goodsyard’ project in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham won the Residential award at last night’s RICS 2024 Midlands awards. The scheme now progresses to the UK national shortlist, with the winners announced in October.
The Goodsyard is a transformative mixed-use development in Birmingham City Centre, featuring 395 residential apartments, commercial offices, and retail spaces, with landscaped public and communal courtyards.
GNA’s design honours the
historic Key Hill and Warstone cemeteries and the Jewellery Quarter
Conservation Area. By reviving the site’s industrial heritage and providing a
new rail station frontage, the project tranforms this brownfield site into a
vibrant gateway to this historic area.
Our design reinterprets the site's industrial heritage, aiming to restore the scale, massing, and architectural significance of the lost goods warehouses destroyed during WWII bombings. This restoration is crucial for understanding the urban grain and function of the Jewellery Quarter.
By adapting this architecture for modern living, working, and leisure,
and engaging with the site's extensive rail and metro transport links, the
Goodsyard project opens a new gateway to this historic area, benefiting both the
new community and the wider city population.
We are very much looking forward to the RICS National Awards Ceremony in October, where The Goodsyard will be showcased and in with a chance of winning the National Award.