The Titanic Quarter Development
| The Vision
“Titanic Quarter is a high profile European waterfront development firmly rooted in the history and character of Belfast, acting as a driver for high quality investment and development in the city.”Titanic Quarter, Europe’s largest and most exciting waterfront development, will transform a 185-acre site on the banks of Belfast’s river Lagan into a new mixed use maritime quarter with a mile of water frontage and a range of investment opportunities including: over 7,500 apartments, 900,000 sq. m. of business, education, office and research and development floor space together with hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars and other leisure uses. Titanic Quarter will bring new life to a part of the city that is rich in both history and potential. The site is centred upon former shipbuilding land from which vessels such as the RMS Titanic, Olympic and SS Canberra were launched – some of most innovative and complex engineering projects ever undertaken. It will become a major social and business meeting place with galleries, theatres, parklands and water sports all easily connected to Belfast’s thriving city centre. The Titanic Quarter development is co-promoted by the Port of Belfast and Titanic Quarter Limited. The £5bn development is expected to create at least 25,000 new jobs over the next 15 years.
Titanic Signature Project
In an area steeped in history, the Titanic Signature Project forms a central part of the development of Titanic Quarter. The state-of-the-art building, designed by leading international architects and designers will include a ‘Titanic Experience’ exhibition, a ‘Flying Theatre’ which allows visitors a birds eye view across Northern Ireland, a Titanic-themed banqueting suite and a community arts facility for local exhibitions, performances and conferences. The project will also include the restoration of the Titanic and Olympic slipways, the Thompson Dock and Harland and Wolff’s former Headquarters building. The Titanic Signature Project will bring alive the area’s history, and will attract visitors from across the world. Helping Belfast rediscover that ‘Titanic Town’ heritage, Titanic Quarter, Belfast Harbour Commissioners and the Northern Ireland Executive have committed £65m to create the £90m landmark Titanic Signature building at the head of the Titanic’s slipway. The Project so far …
White Star Momentos where at the Signature building site this week to check on the progress being made . We can report that the building is now well above ground level and all underground ancillery work has now been completed . Internally , the project provides over 12,000 sqm of floor space and over five floors whose combined height is equivalent to a 10-storey building. These generous ceiling heights allow for suitably large-scale exhibits, the lower levels being controlled environments, which create atmospheric installations evocative of heavy industry or the depths of a ship’s hull. The building’s form conjures up a mass of maritime metaphors; its four projecting segments are instantly evocative of ships prows ploughing their way through the North Atlantic swell. Almost the entire façade will be clad in faceted, three-dimensional zinc plates in a pattern redolent of the construction methods used on the great ocean liners. The lower portions of the four wedges tell the evolution of shipbuilding technology by being first clad with lapped timber planking, riveted iron, welded steel, and finally, aluminium.
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The Administration building and Drawing offices below …
It may surprise some of the website readers to know that the new Titanic Signature Building is being built only a matter of feet away from the original drawing offices , this is being carefully `married ` , to ensure the whole project works and having the old beside the new tells the story of the historic Yard as well as the regeneration . In the photograph below , ( taken from the Titanic drawing office ) we can actually see just how cloose the two buildings are .

As yet no-one has come forward with a full regeneration plan for the offices as they stood originally , however a global hotel chain have showed interest in developing both the administration and drawing offices as a 400 room hotel with full conference facilities and a fitting interior for this classic structure . Only time will tell , but one thing is for sure , the deadline for completion of the entire Titanic Quarter Project is April 2012 , we at White Star Momentos will be there , we hope you can visit as well .
W.S.M. EDITOR.
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TITANIC
QUARTER
NEWS
WINTER 2010
All information on this page has been supplied by www.titanicquarter.com
White Star Momentos would like to thank them for the insight into what to we can expect to experience in the new Titanic Quarter 2012.
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