London Mega-Schemes Shortlisted for International Real Estate Awards

Native Land’s Bankside Yards and UOL Group’s One Bishopsgate Plaza have been named amongst the 46 international projects up for a MIPIM Award this year, reports Abode2.

The annual competition has been running since 1991 with the aim of honouring “the most outstanding and accomplished projects, completed or yet to be built, around the world”.

Native Land’s giant mixed-use endeavour is shortlisted in the “Futura” category, for “innovative” upcoming projects.

Here’s the pitch: “A £2.5bn regeneration project on London’s South Bank, Bankside Yards is the first major mixed-use estate in the UK to be fossil-fuel-free. With sustainability and wellness at its core, the project brings residential, offices, retail, leisure, a hotel and cultural space to a strategic brownfield site, alongside several acres of new public spaces which support biodiversity. Stunningly designed new buildings nestle with historic railway arches, which will be restored and fully accessible. This will mean that for the first time in 150 years, London’s South Bank and Bankside will be connected, creating a continuous cultural strip along the Thames.”

The Bankside Yards team also includes PLP Architecture, Make, Allies & Morrison and Stiff + Trevillion.

The other contenders in the category include the Olympic Aquatic Centre for Paris 2024, and Europe’s largest low-carbon office campus – Arboretum – which is also near Paris.