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架构师提供的文本描述。第五演播室已经完成了西楼的重新开发，这是诺维奇最引人注目的建筑之一，以及它周围的环境，在诺维奇中世纪城市中心的历史敏感背景下，它是一个具有里程碑意义的混合用途的建筑。

Text description provided by the architects. 5th Studio has completed the redevelopment of Westlegate Tower, one of Norwich’s most high profile buildings, together with its surrounding environment, into a landmark mixed-use site within the historically sensitive context of Norwich’s medieval city centre.

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20世纪60年代，这座大厦被改造成17套住宅公寓，其中包括在原来的11层高楼的基础上增加三层楼，为这座建筑创造了一个新的“皇冠”。新公寓各占一层，并受益于壮观的360度俯瞰整个城市。

The transformation of the 1960s tower block into 17 residential apartments involved the addition of three storeys to the previously squat, 11-storey tower - creating a new ‘crown’ for the building. The new apartments each occupy a single floor plate and benefit from spectacular 360-degree views across the city.

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塔楼最初的推动者把它描述为“一支光笔”：这座城市现代化的乐观象征。经过几年的办公使用，这座大楼在毗邻的城堡购物中心的建设中被废弃，大楼的最后一批租户于2005年迁出。这座空置的建筑在城市内部引起了很大的争议，城市规划政策要求拆除它。

The tower’s original promoters described it as “a pencil of light”: an optimistic symbol of the city’s modernity. After some years in use as offices, the building fell into disuse during the construction of the adjacent Castle Mall, with the building’s final tenants moving out in 2005. The vacant building caused much controversy within the city, with city planning policy calling for its demolition.

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2012年，总部位于诺维奇的FW Properties公司和SOHO地产公司在一家合资企业中收购了这座被封存的塔楼。在应邀完成这个项目后，第五工作室的简介是探索如何创造性地将这个网站重新想象成一个混合使用的城市街区。

In 2012 the mothballed tower was purchased in a joint venture by Norwich-based FW Properties and Soho Estates. After winning the project through invited completion, 5th Studio’s brief was to explore how the site might be creatively reimagined as a mixed- use city block.

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这一做法并没有拆除这座塔，而是建议让它更适合在诺威奇-“塔楼之城”-的设置，并为城市规划者提供塔已经摧毁的理想的城市连通性。

Rather than demolish the tower, the practice proposed to make it more appropriate to its setting in Norwich - the ‘city of towers’ - and to deliver for the city planners the desired urban connectivity which the tower had obliterated.

该遗址从西点延伸到TimberHill，包括各种各样的景观和建筑，其中包括塔本身、一座17世纪的建筑(20栋Westlegate)和TimberHill上一个空地上的地面停车场。所有这些都位于第一级教堂的教堂附近，列出了所有的圣徒教堂。

The site spans from Westlegate to Timberhill, encompassing a diverse range of landscapes and buildings, including the tower itself, a listed 17th Century building (20 Westlegate) and surface car parking on a gap site on Timberhill. All of which lie adjacent to the churchyard of the Grade I listed All Saints Church.

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新的信封在它的正面部署了一系列的图案，以提供一个整体的一致性和优雅的塔，回应它作为一个城市规模的地标作用。包层是在标准幕墙的严格预算约束下设计的，但通过使用各种玻璃饰面、金属网和覆盖条，形成了一种随着光线条件和观察塔的角度而发生根本变化的蒙皮。

The new envelope deploys a series of patterns across its facades in order to provide an overall coherence and elegance to the tower, responding to its role as a city-scale landmark. The cladding was designed within the tight budget constraints of standard curtain walling, but by using a variety of glass finishes, metal mesh and cover strips, a skin was developed that changes radically with light conditions and the aspect from which the tower is viewed.

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三层平面图

这座塔的重新建造得到了对周围景观的重新谈判的支持，包括20西门的翻修，新建的现代城镇房屋，以及恢复丢失的狮子。

The re-making of the tower has been supported by a renegotiation of the surrounding landscape, including the renovation of 20 Westlegate, the addition of a new build modern town house, and the reinstatement of the lost Lion & Castle Yard as a public thoroughfare, reconnecting Westlegate and Timberhill, and re-establishing the historic grain of lanes, yards and passageways that characterise the city centre.

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Architects 5th Studio

Location Norwich, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom

Category Apartments

Project Architect Nathan Jones / John Cain

Design Team Ronan Watts, Lily Nicholls, Giles Smith, Mike Taylor

Area 3530.0 sqm

Project Year 2013

Photographs Timothy Soar