Union Building
Client
SSRE Investment 2
Location
Luton, UK
Status
Planning
Architect
Flanagan Lawrence & Stuart Forbes Associates
Interior Design
Stuart Forbes Associates & FLINT
Principal Designer
Flanagan Lawrence PD
Project Manager, Cost Consultant
Gardiner & Theobald
Structural, Civil, Transport Engineer
Conisbee
Landscape Architect
Gillespies
Planning Consultant
GL Hearn
Building Services Engineer, Sustainability, CFSH, Vertical Transportation, Fire Engineering
Hoare Lea
Façade Engineer
AECOM
The Union Building is a mixed use development which is located at Napier Park in Luton. Close to Luton Airport and Luton Airport Parkway Station, the project takes the opportunity presented by a brownfield site to create an exciting new, well located quarter.
As the first phase of a wider masterplan, the project delivers 401 apartments as well as commercial uses and amenity spaces. Central to the masterplan is a generous garden which links the main road bordering the site with a central avenue. The Union Building responds to this context, utilising the level change to accommodate uses which activate the site - commercial units, a gym, concierge, and residents’ amenities.
The building’s mass has a stepped articulation across three cores, and its scale is managed through the careful choice of materials - the brick gradually lightens in colour as the façade rises from the textured brick of the ground floor. Each level is articulated with a chalk white brick line. Internally, a mixture of studio suites, one and two bedroom apartments all enjoy roof terraces and private gardens, which face on to the main landscaped avenue.
