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FoRM Associates ceased trading at the close of 2012 following a decade of fruitful collaboration. During this time the company delivered many innovative and award winning projects in the field of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture both in the UK and internationally.

The founding partners Igor Marko, Peter Fink and Rick Rowbotham will continue their work as independent practitioners.

Landscape Design > Parks and Green Spaces
Urban Design > Masterplans and Strategies

Irwell Park

Manchester

Competition Winner 2007-2010
Client Manchester CC, Salford RUC, Trafford Metropolitan Authority

Team Lead Designers: FoRM Project direction and Strategic design overview: Broadway Malyan

Irwell City Park is a vision of a river and its coridor, which has been reclaimed by its surrounding communities; of a river transformed from a barrier into a meeting place; of a river moved from the periphery to the very heart of the cities' shared life and identity. The projected scope of change along the Irwell corridor over the next decade is huge and the three partner authorities recognise the vital importance to once again provide the unifying thread that links the multitude of disparate developments already built and anticipated along its banks.

The concept of the new linear park overcomes the effects of previous industrialization by transforming the river corridor from a major polluted severance into a premier public realm with Irwell River at its heart. The concept design provides a coordinated and bold strategy for delivering a quantum leap in the regeneration of England's leading city creating a public asset, integral to the experience and identity of Manchester, Salford and Trafford and of its people.