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Internal courtyards

Touchwood features two internal courtyards, Ivy court and the map room. Inspired by the vaulted roofs of sir john Soanes Bank of England, these atria are impressive rooms that act as meeting places for shoppers

ivy court: Situated outside john lewis it features a ceiling made of leaves specially made from stainless steel

The design

The Vision

Touchwoods design intergrates it seamlessly with the high street. It echoes the architectural features of the town.

Unlike any other retail destinations in the UK touchwood features the largest collection of retail arcades in the UK. Also the greatest number of open courtyards and publicly accessible gardens.

The Touchwood development was developed to reflect solihull with its open arcades and leafy courtyards.

The complex comprised of john lewis's only department sotre in the west midlands plus another 80 stores, 20 restaurants and a cineworld nine screen multiplex.

It is ideally located with junctions 4&5 linking it directly into the town with 6000 car parking spaces.

Solihull is the new retail destination of choice in the westmidlands

The three arcades

Solihull - Touchwood

Touchwoods three arcades each have a different look and feel with different shop fronts, lighting and ceilings.

The concept architecture blends the manged to include both this traditional arcade style while still managing to provide shops up to 40m in depth. This combined with the publicly accessible gardens creates a unique shopping environment.

A Successful combination of retail and lesuire

Touchwood is a 60,000m shopping and entertainment destination. It opened on 5 september 2001.

Its success has been proven winning awards for the UK retail destination of the year and Best major new retail development.

It created over 2000 new retail jobs.

The Touchwood development has developed close links with key retailers, the local council, the john lewis partnership, jobcentre plus and local businesses in order to maximise solihull's potential as a shopping town. It is now one of the top 50 destinations in the UK

Four new gardens

Touchwood has created 4 new gardens with hundreds of new trees in solihull. The new gardens provide respite from a mornings shopping or a long days work

Southampton- The West Quay Shopping centre

Location

The west quay shopping centre is located on the site of the former pirellii cable works and the arundel towers development.

Demolition of these structures commenced in 1997 and construction of west quay began in 2000.

The west quay development stretches over three major roads, it also has strong links to the local

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