Titanic Quarter is a landmark development in Queens Island in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Built on now disused and long derelic land, once belonging to the mighty Harland and Wolff shipyard. Titanic Quarter is located on the site where the world famous ship was designed, built and launched. It's Belfast's attempt to reclaim its memory and built a new legacy for the city in the form of a new thriving community and city quarter.

It's the largest waterfront development in Europe.


PHASE 1

1 million sqft mixed-use development adjacent to the Odyssey Arena and Pavilion. Phase 1 encompasses the ‘the Arc' residential complex, designed by award winning architects Robinson McIlwaine, Gateway Offices by award winning Todd Architects, hotel, retail and leisure opportunities.
This phase also includes a new third level education campus for Belfast Metropolitan College, designed by Todd Architects and the new HQ of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

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The new Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
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PHASE 2

3.3 million sqft high mixed-use development offering residential, commercial, retail and leisure facilities. At the heart of this Phase will be the Titanic Signature Project, the former Harland & Wolff headquarters building and the RMS Titanic and RMS Olympic slipways which will form a world-class visitor destination.

Developments
· 37,000 sq m for business / employment use
· 200,000 sq m extension of ARC to north of Abercorn Basin
· 11,300 sq m for tourism including - Titanic Signature Project (http://www.futurebelfast.co.uk/TitanicProject.htm)
· 23,000 sq m for leisure facilities including hotels, conference facilities, restaurants, bars, cafes and sports facilities
· Refurbishment of the former H&W HQ into a 4-star hotel

Infrastruture
· Creation of Titanic Boulevard
· New Dee Street bridge over Sydenham By-pass
· Adoption of the rest of Sydenham Rd inc. landscaping
· Landscaped squares around the former H&W HQ
· Refurbishment of Hamilton Graving Dock to allow mooring of the Nomadic
· New dock walls to north and west of Abercorn Basin
· Creation of marina in Abercorn Basin
· Public walkways and cycle routes around Abercorn Basin

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TITANIC QUARTER SIGNATURE PROJECT

The Titanic Project is located to the north of Abercorn Basin, running the full east-west depth of the site. It is amongst a trio of heritage, leisure and culture buildings:

1. Refurbished Harland & Wolff administration and drawing block
2. Queen’s Island Wharf complex
3. Titanic Experience (also known as the signature project).


The crystalline Titanic Experience building is shaped as a white star (after the shipping company - White Star Line).
It will house a flying IMAX theatre where viewers are suspended in the air. A 50m scale model of the Titanic, a maritime museum and events facilities

The building will face the huge 80 x 300m slipways of Titanic and Olympic to highlight the vast scale of the ship.

The slipways together will create a city-scaled, public open space, which also acts as a place of remembrance.


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PHASE 3-5

These phases are currently at conceptual design stage.

MASTERPLAN

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CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS:


THE ARC

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GATEWAY OFFICE COMPLEX

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THE BELFAST MET CAMPUS
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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Full Credit goes to http://www.futurebelfast.co.uk/TitanicQuarter.htm for the images.

:runaway::runaway::eek2: go Belfast
nice nice nice

wowww very very very nice

Now that is cool!!!!!!!

Looks good.

Incredible ! I love the ship foot-prints.

Fantastic project! Go Ireland.

great project! looks like a city within itself - great stuff

Amazing development, go Belfast...:cheers:

great project! looks like a city within itself - great stuff

Nice architecture, they should make it look a little more 1912 if they want to capitalize of the Titanic mystique though.

Nice architecture, they should make it look a little more 1912 if they want to capitalize of the Titanic mystique though.


That would look cheap and fake though. Remember the area was a shipyard previously, not a city district.

The Harland & Wolff Headquarters and Drawing Room are all being kept and will be integral to the history and heritage of the area. That's in addition to restored docks, slipways and pumphouse.

Stunning!

Is there anything historic left in the area?

Stunning!

Is there anything historic left in the area?

Not a huge amount, the site was mainly warehouses and factories before clearance.
The Harland and Wolff Drawing Offices remain and will I think be converted into a luxury hotel.
We are also refurbishing a dock that will house the restored SS Nomadic, the ship that ferried First Class passenger to Titanic in Cherbourg. That's under way now, it's they only surviving White Star Line ship in existence.

The Thompson Pumping House and Dry dock will be restored, this is where Titanic and her sisters were fitted out before sea trials.

wow, awesome overall. and so very different looking than when i was there 4 years ago. i don't like all of the architecture...some is too cookie-cutter "modern." some of it is extremely awesome though. i do think it would've been nice to see some retro-victorian or neo-classical structures built...instead of the cheap cookie cutter modern stuff.

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awesome project.... it does the legacy of the titanic justice...

Construction Update 26-08-09

Photos courtesy of SSC User G2Gap


New 'ARC' Hotel

Curtain walling has stared, it seems to have a smooth finish. The ARC apartments are to the left.

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Work is progressing well along the new quayside with the new promenade being installed along with paving and new lights outside the ground level commercial units.

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Great updates!

maybe too dense and too similar to other contemporary urban developments in europe

wow it is so cool,very nice,thanks for sharing

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Apartment buyers face funding deficit
1 September 2009
Belfast Telegraph

BUYERS of apartments in the high-profile Titanic Quarter are seeking legal advice as they can no longer get mortgages to cover the original cost of their dream home, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

Completion of the first release of apartments is due next week and people who are contractually bound to buy at a price set two years ago before the property downturn now find themselves as much as £50,000 short thanks to low valuations by surveyors acting for lenders.

CMG Solicitors in Belfast confirmed they were acting for over 100 members of an action group of concerned buyers. A spokeswoman for the firm said they wanted a "commercial, viable and realistic" solution to the problem.

But purchasers are at a stalemate with developer Harcourt Developments, which maintains the contract for sale must be honoured at the original purchase price.

Buyers paid a 10% deposit two years ago for a sought-after apartment costing from £175,000 for a one-bed to £350,000 for a two-bed or £600,000 for a penthouse. Valuations are coming back an average of 30% short, leaving a buyer of the cheapest one-bed having to find around £50,000 to complete.

They are faced with having to raise tens of thousands of pounds from other sources after banks and building societies refused to pay out the full amount after carrying out fresh valuations.

One purchaser, who did not wish to be named, said: "Surely they could afford to reduce and certainly, they would still be in profit."

Estate agent Nicky Brennan of Morton Pinpoint -- not the agent acting in the sale of Titanic Quarter -- said the problem was being repeated across the city, from the highly-anticipated Ormeau Bakery development to an upmarket development at Custom House Square, where valuations are also reportedly around 30% short.

Mr Brennan said he could see both sides. "Why should developers give up a contract on the one hand -- but on the other hand, there should be some leeway even if people were prepared to walk away from their deposit. It's a tough one.

"Maybe there's some form of co-ownership which could be adapted for the situation."

Dr Martin Haran, a research associate at the University of Ulster's School of the Built Environment, said the problem of deficent valuations following pre-agreed prices was "widespread" in Belfast and Dublin. But he said solutions had previously been found in Belfast.

"It all depends on the developers' own flexibility and their flexibility with their bank in particular. Some developers have negotiated reduced costs and in some cases, equity share arrangements with buyers."

The Titanic Quarter is also the planned location of offices of Citigroup, a new Public Records Office and a campus for Belfast Metropolitan College.

Work on the Public Records Office has already started. There are plans for as many as 7,500 apartments.

In an interview with Bloomberg this year Mike Smith, Titanic Quarter chief executive, said around 400 apartments were bought in the summer of 2007, although demand for them has slowed dramatically with only a "handful" bought since then.

Mr Smith said: "The credit crunch has made a big impact. It's a tough time."

Meanwhile, Len O'Hagan, chairman of Belfast Harbour Commissioners, said last week that all but about 30 apartments in the initial phase of 500 had been sold.

A query to Harcourt Developments was directed to Mr Smith, but attempts to contact him for comment were unsuccessful.

Troubled city's big makeover
18 November 2009
Birmingham Mail

IT has been through more than its fair share of troubles.

But Belfast is looking to emerge from one of the darkest chapters in any city's history by delving into its past.

The Northern Ireland city almost took personal control of the term, The Troubles - a title which is still used to describe the generation of violence between Protestant and Republican that resulted in years of occupation by the British Army.

Seemingly bizarrely, that infamous period is still marked with taxi tours to places such as the Falls Road and Shankill Road - names that would have sent a shiver down the spine in years gone by due to atrocities carried out on both sides.

A ceasefire has at least brought some normality to the centre of Belfast - a place that was such a no-go area in the seventies that the historic Grand Opera House was almost demolished due to a combination of bomb attacks and a dearth of theatre and concert-goers.

Like much of the city centre, the building is now restored and that determination by Belfast to reclaim its place as a major attraction on the European map is seeing it embrace another, much older, slice of its colourful past.

Titanic fever is gripping the city again! A £1 billion project is underway to create a new Titanic Quarter - reclaiming and transforming around 75 hectares which previously saw the creation of the mighty luxury liner.

And in another twist, the first phase of the project will be concluded with the opening of a Titanic Museum, not only built over the original slipways of the tragic ship and its sister vessel Olympic, but due to be opened on April 15, 2012 - the centenary of the Titanic sinking with the loss of more than 1,500 passengers and crew.

The Harland and Wolff shipyards that built the Titanic are a shadow of their former selves, now barely scratching a living assembling off-shore wind turbines, but the legacy will live on.

When completed, the Titanic Quarter will also be occupied with luxury apartment and office blocks, and a trail leading from the museum to gardens in the shape of Titanic and Olympic. There will be a berth for another member of the fleet, Titanic's former passenger ferry Nomadic, which is being brought back from France where it was recently used as a restaurant.

The city's revival in fortunes is also resulting in a succession of top-class restaurants opening up on a regular basis, such as the impressive CoCo, with up-and-coming chef Jason More.

On the other side of the city, close to the Titanic Quarter, new high-rise apartment and office blocks are lifting up to the skies - just as the Belfast Wheel, complete with 42 gondolas, has been doing for the last 18 months.

It is a sure-fire sign that Belfast is undergoing a major makeover, seemingly oblivious to the recession. But if any city deserves it, Belfast surely does.

Great last article :D

More pics:

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Belfast Metropolitan College - Titanic Quarter Campus

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Premier Travel Inn - Titanic Quarter

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This is really good. The Titanic building looks amazing. How is the construction coming along? Still on schedule? I will be saving up to fly over in 2012 for the 100th anniversary. It shall be truly amazing.

It is so nice to see how Belfast is emerging from those times when it was impossible to overlooked the troubles they where confronting. This project is a perfect example of the new era. Go Belfast!!

How is the construction coming along? Still on schedule?

Doubtful. :)

It shall be truly amazing.

Not sure about "amazing" :lol: :)

Hopefully it'll be very good. :)

Though most of the area will still be wasteland if you come over in 2012.

But for Belfast to be paid a compliment from someone from a world class city like Sydney is very flattering.

Go Belfast!!

Cheers. :)

I love this development. Certainly a model in terms of redevelopments of what were wastelands. Just would of hoped Melbourne's Docklands had as much thought put into it that this did.

What about the outline of the ship. Are they part of the 1st phase ?

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Do you mean this? :)

I think it's been shelved.

Not sure about "amazing"

Hopefully it'll be very good.

Though most of the area will still be wasteland if you come over in 2012.

But for Belfast to be paid a compliment from someone from a world class city like Sydney is very flattering.

Haha your very welcome. From what I have seen Belfast is beautiful.
"Amazing"-- I meant the 100th anniversary of the Titanic and the planned ceremony they will hold. Not so much the development itself, although it still looks good!

Some updates

This week's TSP progress:

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View of the ARC

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MET:

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Signature Project:

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PRONI

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Pity about the anchor though, would have been great seeing how vast it was in person.