Open Market

Brighton

This unusual development provides 87 residential units in 3 blocks up to 6 storeys high, 44 permanent market stalls, 12 light industrial/retail workshops, offices, meeting facilities and a large market square.

This is Brighton’s only covered market, and has been on this site for over 50 years. To keep the market trading during construction, a temporary market had to be built, and some of the part finished retail units were also used as temporary market stalls.

Client

Hyde Housing Association

Contractor

Denne Construction

Architect

A & Q Partnership

This project contains many unusual features, not least of which is the market roof. Supported on a series of steel ‘trees’ the roof structure is an unusual design, and required extensive 3D computer analysis and careful detailing to arrive at a solution that provided the required structural performance whilst remaining visually pleasing.

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