A book of student design projects created in response to a proposal for a reimagined Marble Arch, London.
The Portman Estate and urban design and public realm strategy practice Publica published a proposal in 2019 to transform the civic space around Marble Arch. Marble Arch; Proposal for the public realm sets out an argument for how the traffic, transport and public spaces by Hyde Park, Oxford Street and Edgware Road around the monument of Marble Arch could be remodelled for the benefits of the wider area to maximise the potential of the neighbourhood for a wide range of users.
Taking the report as the starting point, undergraduate students from Design Studio [2]2 at the School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, developed a variety of design proposals to take advantage of the imagined future of this famous landmark by Hyde Park, which would release this prime land, turning an isolated traffic island into a space that connects the retail and real estate areas of Oxford Street and Mayfair wi
