The finalists were picked from 27 submissions. They will submit more detailed submissions this month, and a winner is due to be announced by early April.<\/p>\n
The announcement comes a year after Bell Phillips and Intervention Architecture won planning approval<\/a> for some of the first housing within the major regeneration site, near New Street station in Birmingham city centre.<\/p>\n The council named Lendlease as its joint venture partner for Birmingham Smithfield in 2018\u00a0and granted\u00a0planning permission in June for the area\u2019s \u00a31.9 billion regeneration plans, following a lengthy planning process.<\/p>\n The masterplan, a revision of an earlier version, was drawn up by a design team<\/a> including Prior + Partners and David Kohn Architects<\/a> and was submitted in October 2023.<\/p>\n An original application was lodged in January 2023,<\/a> before a revised masterplan was submitted to address concerns raised by Historic England over harm to the historic cityscape.<\/p>\n The design was led by Prior + Partners<\/a> along with New York High Line lead James Corner Field Operations<\/a>. It includes buildings by Stirling Prize-winners dRMM and Haworth Tompkins, and up-and-coming local practice Minesh Patel Architects<\/a>.<\/p>\n Smithfield project director Colin Murphy said: \u2018Smithfield Birmingham is one of the most important regeneration opportunities in the UK, and this plot will set the tone for the quality, ambition and identity of the whole development.<\/p>\n \u2018We were impressed by the strength of the applications, and we\u2019re delighted to shortlist four outstanding architect teams who each bring a distinctive design perspective. This milestone is a great moment for the practices involved and an exciting step forward for the project.<\/p>\n \u2018We look forward to seeing their concepts develop over the coming weeks as we move into the stage where we choose the firm who will take this work forward.\u2019<\/p>\n Source:Lendlease<\/p>\n Illustrative masterplan. Credit: Lendlease<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carmody Groarke is working with Adamson Associates, while David Kohn Architects has teamed up with Weedon Architects. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7820],"tags":[13236,855,235270,748,235271,235272,393,235273,4884,16,15],"class_list":["post-816313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-birmingham","tag-big","tag-birmingham","tag-birmingham-smithfield","tag-britain","tag-carmody-groarke","tag-david-kohn-architects","tag-england","tag-eric-parry-architects","tag-great-britain","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116204152929266045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Smithfield-marked-masterplan-.webp.webp\")
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