From retail schemes with a theme-park ride to spas incorporating residential developments and driving-led leisure destinations, many developments are incorporating added extras for visitors
Caspian Waterfront
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Size: 120,000 sq m
Developer: Pasha Construction
Architect: Benoy
The 120,000 sq m scheme will include two levels of retail, six levels of entertainment and leisure and a spectacular food and beverage tower.
Each of the levels of leisure will have its own, unique identity but all will celebrate 21st-century entertainment and cutting-edge special effects.
Caspian Waterfront will incorporate two atria. Reaching 45m in height, one will incorporate ‘The Flame Drop’; a ride that appears to rise and fall through fire.
Ignition, Young Driver Training
Location: Abu Dhabi
Size: 30,000sq m
Developer: Brandscape
Architect: Benoy
Traffic City is designed to create an educational centre to help promote road safety and improve driving skills for all ages.
Tracks have been created to entertain younger drivers in the first driving and leisure-led destination to engage drivers while also educating them.
The centre will embrace technology and sustainability through a combination of state of the art vehicles, contemporary architecture and the educational messages presented in the exhibits.
Jewel, Changi Airport
Location: Singapore
Size: 134,000 sq m
Developer: Jewel Changi Airport Trustee
Architect: Benoy
Located in the heart of Singapore Changi Airport, Jewel will be a world-class lifestyle destination and the first in Singapore to integrate indoor gardens with retail, dining, leisure and facilities within the same building.
Avira Wellness Community
Location: Johor, Malaysia
Size: 12,000 sq m
Developer: Melt Design Hub in collaboration with GDP
The destination spa is set over three stories and features a wellness ‘marketplace’, clinic, spa, club and dedicated suites, in extensive landscaped gardens overlooking over an existing lake.
The building is part of a new 500-home suburb development.
Dreamcenter
Location: Shanghai, China
Size: 152,300 sq m
Developer: Lan Kwai Fong Properties Limited
Architect: Benoy
DreamCenter is the leading element of the West Bund Media Port project; one of the largest cultural investment projects currently underway in China.
Key features include the Dream Avenue Cultural Theatre District; the headquarters of Oriental DreamWorks, which will become Asia’s top animation production base; a 500-seat IMAX; and eight themed outdoor plazas.
Minsk Leisure Scheme
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Developer: Belzarubezhstroy
Architect: Leslie Jones Architecture
The masterplan for the two-hectare site north-east of the city centre includes a tennis centre, 25-m swimming pool, fitness centre, squash, beach tennis and mini-football facilities.
Elwick Place
Location: Ashford, Kent
Size: On a 6.65-acre site
Developer: Stanhope
The £75m project on a 6.65 acre vacant brownfield site includes a new six-screen boutique cinema, a 60-bed family hotel, restaurants and cafés, homes, car parking and a space for events and community uses.
Flemingate
Location: Beverley, East Riding, Yorkshire
Size: 162,561 sq ft
Developer: Wykeland Group
Flemingate is anchored by a 40,000 sq ft new concept Debenhams, a 33,723 sq ft six-screen Parkway digital cinema, and an 80-room Premier Inn hotel.
Other key brands in the line-up include H&M, Outfit and Wilkinsons.
Flemingate also has a 500-space multi-storey carpark – the largest in Beverley – and Zizzi has signed as the first restaurant brand.
Drake Circus
Location: Plymouth
Size: 100,000 sq ft
Developer: British Land
Architect: Corstorphine + Wright
The £40m leisure scheme in Plymouth city centre will include a 12-screen cinema operated by Cineworld, 14 restaurant units and 420 car park spaces.
The site will be situated next to British Land’s Drake Circus Shopping Centre and is due to open in spring 2018.
