Shackerley Façades at Landsec’s White Rose

White Rose Shopping Centre South of Leeds is one of the UK’s premier retail and leisure destinations. Its owner, Landsec, has recently completed and opened a 65,000 sq ft leisure extension to the scheme. Named ‘The Village’, it includes an 11-screen Cineworld IMAX cinema, and a range of exciting new restaurants.

To create a high quality finish and variation of colour, texture and finish, the external elevations have been clad in a combination of burnished bronze coloured panels and Shackerley’s SureClad®^® ceramic granite ventilated façade cladding in a matt black colourway, chosen specifically to deliver the appearance of natural riven slate.

Shackerley’s large format ceramic granite panels were specified as part of a Kingspan BENCHMARK Karrier Panel system. This innovative external envelope solution brings together Kingspan’s high performance structural insulating panels with the premium appearance and longevity of Shackerley’s fully-prefabricated ceramic granite cladding and the installation benefits of its SureClad^® Access System.

The project required the prefabrication of more than 1100m² of SureClad^® ceramic granite façade panels at Shackerley’s ISO 9001-accredited production facility in Lancashire.

Whilst Shackerley’s most popular SureClad^® panel format (1196 x 596mm) was specified for the project, around two thirds of the panels required bespoke cutting (including hundreds cut to site measurements), due to the complexity of the façades design.

The design concept called for a matt, slate-effect finish to create an illusion of infinite space between the expanses of bronze across the long façades on each side of the cinema building and the shaded glass facades at the rear.The same finish was specified for all the frontages of the new restaurant outlets.

Construction of ‘The Village’ at the White Rose Shopping Centre is now completed and the matt ‘Rio Black’ ceramic granite SureClad^® façade works well with Kingspan’s Karrier Panel system to offer an ideal mix of performance and aesthetics.