Watermark WestQuay, Southampton

 

Client: Spie Matthew Hall
Value: £1m
Programme: 9 months
Consultant: Foreman Roberts

Watermark WestQuay is the first part of a major redevelopment of a key area within Southampton’s town centre including a 10-screen multiplex cinema, bowling alley, 24 restaurants and cafés, and a new public plaza and esplanade. Created for Hammerson, Watermark sits adjacent to their WestQuay Shopping Centre, drawing the development towards the sea. A soaring cantilevered box wrapped in a skin of curving silver tubes projects out over the new square creating a hub of leisure activity for the city. Phase 1 and 2 of Watermark WestQuay have been designed as the first steps in a plan to reconnect the city to the sea, embracing Southampton’s ancient maritime history.