The Waterfront Gateway is the first plot to be constructed on the Waterfront Business Park at Barrow Island, a new development on a brownfield site at Barrow-in-Furness. Part of our client’s brief was that they wanted the building to be an example of the quality of buildings they would like to see being constructed on adjacent sites on the new business park. In order to exploit the spectacular panoramic views afforded to the south east, south and south west from the site over the Walney Channel and Walney Island itself to the Irish Sea beyond, the building takes the form of a crescent made up of two blocks with a linking node.