Yorkshire Forward plans urban renaissance
Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward has selected a panel of architects and urban designers to advise on the regeneration of Yorkshire & Humberside’s urban centres.
The RDA is spending £1m on design strategies that will reinvent town such as Scarborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Grimsby, Rotherham and Barnsley as “renaissance towns”.
The panel, selected in consultation with the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment, includes:
- Alsop Architects
- Latham Architects, based in Derby
- David Lock Associates, which has brought together a team including Roger Tym & Partners, Oscar Faber, Insite Research & Consultancy, Urban Cultures and Drew Mackie Associates
- Koetter Kim, an urban design and architectural practice based in London and the US
- West 8, a Rotterdam-based architecture and landscape practice
- Architectural practice EDAW
- West Yorkshire-based landscape designer Camlin Lonsdale
- Urban Initiatives, a London and Dublin-based urban planning, transport and design consultancy
- Landscape Design Associates.
EGi News 10/05/02
Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward has selected a panel of architects and urban designers to advise on the regeneration of Yorkshire & Humberside’s urban centres.
The RDA is spending £1m on design strategies that will reinvent town such as Scarborough, Doncaster, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Halifax, Grimsby, Rotherham and Barnsley as “renaissance towns”.
The panel, selected in consultation with the Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment, includes:
Alsop Architects
Latham Architects, based in Derby
David Lock Associates, which has brought together a team including Roger Tym & Partners, Oscar Faber, Insite Research & Consultancy, Urban Cultures and Drew Mackie Associates
Koetter Kim, an urban design and architectural practice based in London and the US
West 8, a Rotterdam-based architecture and landscape practice
Architectural practice EDAW
West Yorkshire-based landscape designer Camlin Lonsdale
Urban Initiatives, a London and Dublin-based urban planning, transport and design consultancy
Landscape Design Associates.
EGi News 10/05/02
