Riley's Gardens Part 1 Project 2020 Harry Nicholson Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool | UK The project asks what the' Future of Work' will look like. Midway through the semester that question was re-framed by Covid-19, the proposition presented here is resilient in its response.Ryley's Gardens - brings a rolling green space into the city's business district. Around this green core a range of new and repurposed buildings draw natural planting through their internal spaces and across their facades, forming an oasis of organic life, with planting taking a multitude of forms. The architecture works hard to provide an elegant framework for nature. A slab block defines the major spaces, with a narrow floorplate and southern aspect it is naturally ventilated whilst being shaded by extensive planting across it s surface. A winter garden connects two presently derelict buildingsto bring new types of spacious, visually stimulating workspace into the city. A colonnade and inhabited bridge binds all the major elements together, sensitively linking the internal and external spaces of the proposal.For a undergraduate project this scheme very successfully resolves a complex urban site, with a deceptively simple sequence of int erventions.The pre-existing urban context is respected and repaired whilst the experience of nature within the city is enabled, not overshadowed, by the architectural solution. Harry Nicholson