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Get an insight into Horizon’s creation and concept from its designers, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the world’s most awarded international architecture firm.
Discover the ambition and approach and learn more about the innovation, sustainability and strategy behind this landmark development.
It’s a beautiful location. Overlooking a sixteenth-century castle, surrounded by a marina, we felt it had all the right components to really do something special. The requirements of the project stood out clearly to us - to connect the waterfront with the city and to bring a modern approach to the historical fabric of the location. There’s a duality of the modern and the traditional which we felt was important and helped to better stitch this reclaimed area into the historic town.
Our aim was to give Horizon a resonance as a public space as well as a living space, opening up spaces to allow people to occupy the area and be connected to the waterfront. You’re creating an experience that makes people feel part of a townscape, adding avenues, terraces and public spaces so that people can be neighbours not simply residents.
We worked very hard to get real quality and texture into the development so that it would reflect its past, as well as create a landmark for the future. When light dapples over the glass facade, when daylight passes through the avenues, and the glass bay windows reflect the sea through the day, the buildings will have a unique kinetic quality to them. It’s a very special location, and we feel Horizon will add to that experience.
