Urban Design

Good urban design should shape every aspect of our urban environments, from the form and arrangement of external spaces to the style of materials used.

SLR developed a design concept for a large entrance plaza alongside Sir Norman Foster’s curvaceous Sage building. Our designers came up with the notion of sound waves and interference patterns rippling out from the Sage Music Centre, with the wave forms interpreted in 2D as paving patterns and in 3D as ripples across a turf mound culminating in a stepped amphitheatre.

The area is now known as Performance Square recognising its adoption as the space to be for open air events and street theatre spilling out from the Sage’s auditorium.