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Burlington Slate - Burlington makes a feature of itself at outlet shopping village
Shoppers visiting Castleford’s Junction 32
Outlet Shopping Village can seek respite from the rigours of
retail therapy by escaping to the sanctuary of the development’s
four ‘piazza’ spaces and interlinking streetscapes, one of which
features two authentic water features created out of Burlington
natural stone.
Whilst forming part of an homogenous scheme developed by
York-based Landscape Architects and contractors, LCD Ltd, on
behalf of their clients, Realm and Shepherd Construction, the
Burlington stone water features have been designed to help
deliver a distinct identity to the piazza by highlighting the
aesthetic and functional qualities of the surrounding space.
Serving to help sooth and invigorate the senses, each water
feature is clad in a combination of Burlington’s olive green
Bursting Stone and silver/grey Brandy Crag natural stone
supplied with a gritblasted and flamed finish. In taking the
form of apposing comma punctuation marks, the water features
help deliver a subliminal message that echoes the grammatical
definition of the comma – the need to pause, whilst allowing for
reflection within the surrounding environment.
Constructed featuring a series of steps that both reduce in
height and width from the comma’s top to tail, using a
combination of the two different stone colours and finishes
helps increase the texture and hence substance of each water
feature structure.
Commenting on behalf of LCD Ltd, director, Simon Prince said:
“We specified Burlington’s natural stone for the water features
as part of the Junction 32 scheme having worked with the company
on a previous scheme, Xscape, also in Castleford. Here
Burlington supplied random walling stone that featured within a
number freestanding wire basket features.”
He added: ‘Not only does the visual appearance of the stone fit
perfectly with designs that we created for the water features,
we were confident that Burlington had the ability and experience
to work with us throughout the whole design and construction
process.
“They are an excellent, professional, helpful and genuinely
great company to work with and who are not afraid to provide
invaluable technical advice,” he concluded.
In addition to featuring the two Burlington water features that
dominate the centre of this piazza space is complimented by a
variety of other hard and soft landscaping features that take in
planters or tree pits constructed from Iroko timber and which
feature trees from Germany and soil from Amsterdam. Not to
mention benches that were recycled from the previous site and
granite from China.
Junction 32 Outlet Shopping Village provides the public with
access to over 90 outlet stores that take in a huge selection of
leading brands from retailers such as Denby, Rockport, Nike,
Reebok, Monsoon and M&S.
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