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Liverpool names architects to transform 1980s Festival Gardens into homes
Liverpool City Council has named a team featuring Metropolitan Workshop and shedKM to draw up housing-led plans for its famous waterfront Festival Gardens
Competition wins
Updates on architectural competitions, including shortlists, winners and other news
University of Cambridge names teams for £80m framework
The University of Cambridge has named the architects chosen for its new £80 million construction consultancy services framework
Snøhetta and TODD win contest for £100m Belfast visitor destination
Snøhetta with TODD has seen off a shortlist crammed with Stirling Prize winners and international stars to win the competition for the £100 million Belfast Stories visitor attraction
AHMM on team picked to masterplan 130ha Bristol Temple Quarter
A team including AHMM has been chosen to masterplan a 130ha area surrounding Bristol Temple Meads railway station
Hayhurst & Co wins St Austell rooftop garden contest
Hayhurst & Co has won St Austell Town Council’s contest to design a £3.6 million rooftop garden and year-round events pavilion
Reiach and Hall with Studio Niro wins Orkney arts centres competition
Reiach and Hall Architects, working with emerging Edinburgh-based Studio Niro, has won a competition to design two new satellite venues for the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney
FCBS and Maccreanor Lavington picked for Strangeways regeneration
Manchester and Salford city councils have named their multidisciplinary team chosen to create an ambitious regeneration vision for the Strangeways district
Bristol community centre contest winner named
Hayhurst and Co has seen off a strong shortlist to win the contest to mastermind the £10 million overhaul of Bristol’s Filwood Community Centre
William Sutton Prize for social housing reveals 2023 shortlist
Clarion Housing Group has named the six finalists in its ideas contest for radical concepts to transform the lives of social housing residents
Be First names practices to deliver 3,500 socially rented homes
Barking and Dagenham Council’s regeneration arm, Be First, has chosen eight teams for its new architecture framework to deliver 3,500 socially rented homes