St Nicholas Covered Market | Bristol
Client: Bristol City Council
Value: £190,000
Services Provided: Concept Design, Listed Building Application, Detailed Design, Principal Designer, CGIs, RIBA Stages: 1-4.
St Nick’s Market holds a special place in the heart of many a Bristolian, gcp staff included. We therefore jumped at the opportunity to support Bristol City Council in the design of a new trading space at the heart of the grade 2* listed covered market.
A primary ambition for the project was the reinstatement of a movement route through the market North to South to improve footfall. We developed this ambition in other ways too: by creating moments and spaces in the design which will encourage visitors not just to pass through - but to stop and dwell in the covered market. The new trading space provides a destination and a meeting place.
The elevations are designed as a contemporary intervention, whilst referencing the details and proportions of the surrounding timber stalls. gcp secured listed building consent, first for the removal of the existing poor quality stalls and then for the erection of the new trading space. A process which involved numerous conversations and negotiation with conservation officers. The council are currently in the process of appointing a contractor with the aspiration that the construction will take place in 2024.
CGI view of proposed new stalls from the south-west of the market
CGI view of proposed new stalls from the north-east of the market
CGI view of proposed new stalls from the south of the market
CGI view of proposed new stalls from the south-east of the market