Winvic tops out on Leeds’ Lisbon Street
The 24-storey, purpose built student accommodation is being built for client CASL Lisbon Street and funded by CA Ventures.
Comprising 548 single-bed, en-suite rooms within one tower block, the PBSA building design is being delivered by DMWR Architects and will provide future students with a 1,600 sq ft first floor roof terrace and shared amenity spaces, including cinema rooms, a gym, a games room, and a TV lounge.
Located on the corner of Lisbon Street and Castle Street, this is part of the redevelopment of the former International Swimming Pool site, which closed in 2007.
Plans for the remainder of the plot include two build-to-rent residential towers of 33 and 22 storeys, consisting of 629 apartments, as well as a 15-storey aparthotel with 120 rooms, 22,000 sq ft of coworking space and 130,000 sq ft of office space.
The full project delivery team for the wider site also includes DLA Architecture, Re-form Landscape Architecture, Quod, CSD, Curtins, RBA, Turley, Brooks Ecological, Stroma Building Control, Jensen Hughes, Hydrock, Apex Acoustics, Windtech and AA Projects.
Winvic started working on the Lisbon Street PBSA project in October 2023 and is due to complete in August 2025. The concrete-framed building has aluminium rain screen cladding, which fits in with the wider Lisbon Street development, and final decorations have finished on the lower floors.
The contractor also used electric boilers for its roofing activities, replacing the less sustainable gas-fired option.
Winvic’s managing director for multi-room, Mark Jones, commented: “The Lisbon Street project in the centre of Leeds has been progressing very well and it was great to celebrate the topping out milestone with our client and the scheme’s funders, CASL Lisbon Street and CA Ventures.
“With other projects also being constructed adjacent to ours on the wider Lisbon Street site there were challenges to consider, but the team’s collaborative skills have ensured that we’re right on programme for completion in summer next year.”
