Bute Avenue Boulevard in Cardiff was a mile long urban regeneration project that aspired to link the city of Cardiff with its redundant dockland waterfront through the integrated use of carriageway and landscape, architecture and art.

Project Summary

Project : Bute Avenue, Cardiff
Client : Cardiff Bay Development Corporation
Partners : Cardiff Bay Art Trust
Location : Cardiff
Sector : Public
Duration : 1994 - 1995

The multidisciplinary design team, including artists David Patten and Jack Mackie, was led by MBM Architects and by Arups. The collaborative artists’ proposal, inspired by the soon to be demolished architecture and landscape, offered a curved city square, asymmetrical building lines with associated urban and social gardens. These social spaces aimed to link corporate and domestic new build with the existing communities of Tiger Bay.

The artists’ presentation model for this unrealised proposal demonstrated the design concepts with a colour and materials palette specific to both civic and maritime destinations

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