The shortlists of architects to design the new masterplan for the £1bn Chelsea Barracks site has been announced.
King’s Cross masterplanners Allies & Morrison have teamed up with Demetri Porphyrios, Terry Farrell & Partners, Dixon Jones, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Stirling Prize winner Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
Site owner Qatari Diar has also chosen American architects Andres Duany and Bob Stern, who both have ties to the Congress for new Urbanism, formerly chaired by Prince’s Foundation chief executive Hank Dittmar.
The list is rounded off by the inclusion of Alan Baxter & Associates with Paul Davis + Partners, Hamiltons Architects, Think Place and Patel Taylor and Squire & Partners with Kim Wilkie Associates.
Qatari Diar approached consultants including the Prince’s Foundation to help it compile a list after it withdrew the previous Richard Rogers residential-led designs were abandoned.
More than 40 firms expressed interest in working on the Chelsea scheme.
The shortlist is expected to be reduced to three firms by November, with a winner due to picked at the start of next year ahead of a fresh planning application to Westminster city council.
The full shortlist:
– Alan Baxter & Associates LLP and Paul Davis + Partners
– Porphyrios Associates and Allies & Morrison
– Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company and others
– Dixon Jones
– Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
– Terry Farrell & Partners
– Hamiltons Architects, Think Place and Patel Taylor
– Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and others
– Robert A.M. Stern Architects and others
– Squire & Partners and Kim Wilkie Associates
