Cannon Clarke Architects were commissioned to design a mixed-use City Centre building in the heart of Norwich on Magdalen Street. Located within a Conservation Area and in the proximity of Listed Buildings, the proposal for commercial/retail space and 13 no. 2 & 3-bedroom new-build apartments including a resident's gym sits in the shadow of the proposed Weston Homes Anglia Square development. The design not only takes into account the existing condition but anticipates the future context of the wider redevelopment of the street as a whole. The design is the ultimate conclusion of forensic historical analysis on the still evident medieval building plot allocations, vernacular materials and the changing massing and form of the street over time. The current brutalist Barclays Bank building has been earmarked by the Conservation Area Appraisal as worthy of demolition although our new proposals maintain the building line and retain the existing basement. The building broadly follows the existing street principles of bottom, middle and top with a stone-treated continuous shop-front, a punched-window brick façade middle and a set-back perforated and patinated anodised aluminium rainscreen cladding treatment. The set back top floor allows for generous external terraces to the 3-bed penthouse apartments. Due to the shifting nature of the adjacent Anglia Square proposals, Cannon Clarke Architects have worked proactively with the Norwich Planning Department to make adaptations to the scheme that were mutually acceptable to our client, Weston Homes and the LPA. The scheme is due for a positive planning determination subject to the resolution of the Nutrient Neutrality credit allocation scheme.