This film was produced for civil engineering company Sunderland ARC and is presented by celebrated architect Piers Gough. The architect guides us through the proposal for the development of both the former Vaux Brewery site as well as the city centre. New housing, shopping and work sites as well as changes to traffic management all feature in the new vision for Sunderland. The film opens showing a park with trees in autumnal colours. In the park is the presenter of the film. Title: Piers...

This film was produced for civil engineering company Sunderland ARC and is presented by celebrated architect Piers Gough. The architect guides us through the proposal for the development of both the former Vaux Brewery site as well as the city centre. New housing, shopping and work sites as well as changes to traffic management all feature in the new vision for Sunderland. The film opens showing a park with trees in autumnal colours. In the park is the presenter of the film. Title: Piers Gough CBE RIBA RA - Architect Piers speaks from a point next to the River Wear with the Monkwearmouth railway bridge in the distance and above him a chimney showing the site of the now closed Vaux brewery. Piers goes on to say that in a few years’ time this area of Sunderland could look quite different. A sketch shows walkways and other features such as apartment blocks that are part of future plans. Sketches also shows plans for high rise offices, shopping malls, and entertainment facilities overlooking the River Wear. Piers stands on a walkway which he says will be the gateway to a whole new quarter for Sunderland city centre. He holds a sketchbook in which he has drawn, as he describes, a completely integrated, mixed use, sustainable development. In his hand he holds a street plan of part of the city centre, on it he draws a ring round the former Vaux breweries site to be developed giving an impression of the scale of the whole project. Looking over an area which will be developed, according to his sketches, as flats, residents will be able to access this area on foot or bicycle from two new bridges. He highlights one which is where he stands and another from an area near the Stadium of Light. He also shows how movement of people will come in from the Bridges shopping centre. The film shows a view of this busy precinct. Piers talks from a busy junction as he explains that the city is cut off from the Vaux site by a dual carriageway known as St Mary’s Way and pedestrians find this difficult to cross. Piers explains, by use of one of his diagrams how this will change in the future, allowing pedestrians access to a new area for shopping. Piers goes on to say. more than 6000 jobs will be created in the new Vaux quarter. The film shows the public spaces sketched out by Piers as he talks about a central place where people can meet. On screen he talks while standing next to a roundabout which he promises will become ‘a most wonderful piazza’, covered with glass. The film shows a view of this area by superimposing an artists impression of this new feature. It will also include a public use building known as the Mediatheque, where information appears on a large public screen. Speaking to the camera he sums up the new Sunderland city centre with accompanying impressions of finished buildings, a high quality hotel, apartments for city living, a range of shops, a busy area to meet and new environments to work. Colour photographs show examples of other buildings designed by Piers Gough. Standing next to the river with a backdrop of buildings as artists impressions of the new Vaux quarter. Piers outlines that the new places to live in the city will allow people to feed into the other new facilities. At St Peters Metro station Piers states that rapid transport systems will serve the new quarter. More artists impressions of the new developments follow, as Piers finishes outlining the benefits to Sunderland of the new development. End title: Vaux Brewery Site – Sunderland Arc - City of Sunderland - English Partnerships - One NorthEast. © Sunderland Arc