client:  Miller Birch

value:  £50 million

date:    ongoing

maber's role for ng2 includes masterplanners, architects and landscape architects. The masterplan creates a vision for ng2 that is unlike any other comparable development in the East Midlands. Key features include: 

• a business environment laid out on civic design principles, including a crescent shaped “gateway” to the business park
• well-defined street frontages
• a descending scale from four-storeys to two-storeys
• car parking concealed from public view
• a consistent palette of architectural forms, colours and materials
• a major investment in new landscaping
   

Sustainable design principles include the recycling of demolition materials, a “grey” water system and energy-efficient buildings. Alternative transport provision including a network of cycle paths and parks, and provision for the future phase 2 of the NET tram system.

The flexibility to meet the ever-changing needs of the market, iconic architecture, outstanding city location and plentiful parking make ng2 the best business address in Nottingham.

Highly specified and beautifully finished, its buildings have attracted envious glances, critical acclaim and some very prestigious names. For HSBC – occupying the first floor of ng2’s flagship building, The Arc – the move has worked out beautifully.