TEAM CHOSEN FOR FARRELL MASTERPLAN

Architects' Journal, The, February, 2008 by Waite, Richard

An eclectic mix of architects has been chosen to deliver Terry Farrell's £800 million retail-led Eastgate masterplan in Leeds city centre.

Developers Hammerson and Town Centre securities have picked Heatherwick Studio, John McAslan Partners, Benoy, Los Angeles-based Jerde Partnership and landscape architect Gross. Max to work on the 140,000m2 regeneration scheme.

The practices will work alongside Acme Space, a practice formed last year by two former Foreign Office Architects, which saw offCarmody Groarke and Kengo Kuma to land the flagship 26,000m^sup 2^ John Lewis store at the heart of the development (pictured above).

More than 70 practices were originally considered by the developers, following an 'international search'which kicked-ofFat the global property...

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