Products used: MechSlip, Brick Slips - Ivanhoe Katrina
Project location: Bristol
Architects: Chapman Taylor
Brickwork Contractor: Bouygues & Kyotec

Castle Park View is the flagbearer for Bristol’s multimillion pound regeneration project, offering 300 build-to-rent homes and 75 affordable dwellings in Bristol’s newest and now tallest building.

Bristol’s Castle Park View, just a stone’s throw across the River Avon from Bristol’s thriving city centre, is a new development undergoing an incredible transformation from brownfield site to high specification living spaces, giving soon-to-be renters access to one of the most up-and-coming areas in the UK.

Aiming to meld historic features with modern architectural and building practices, the developers, Chapman Taylor, brought to bear innovative building products from some of the UK’s most renowned manufacturers to enable the stunning design.

Consisting of three sections, a 10-story block connected by a lower building to a 28-story tower, the development provides a business centre, reception and leisure facilities for residents, all while holding the record for Bristol’s tallest building, standing at 98m tall. The most striking feature of the new development is its cladding – with brick facades interspersed with long stretches of glass – which envelopes the development in a modern design with classical throwbacks.

Chapman Taylor identified MechSlip as the right solution for a development the size and scale as Castle Park View, recognising the need for a system which combines safety, aesthetic appeal and ease-of-install, while, crucially, specifiable at height.