Alison Brooks Architects will lead team including Purcell and Richard Griffiths for 鈥榤ultimillion pound鈥� project
An Alison Brooks Architects-led team has been appointed to create a masterplan and concept designs for the redevelopment of York Castle Museum.
The practice will work with Richard Griffiths Architects, Purcell Architecture and Todd Longstaff-Gowan Landscape Design, Real Studios, BDP, Appleyard and Trew, and BuroHappold Engineering on the project, described by the museum as a 鈥渕ultimillion pound鈥� scheme.
York Castle Museum said it had shortlisted five practices for interview to lead the project: Alison Brooks, Purcell Architecture, Simpson & Brown, Stanton Williams and Wilkinson Eyre.
The museum has an entire street of Victorian shops among its exhibits and the objectives of the redevelopment include establishing it as the home of a world-class 鈥渘ational collection of everyday life鈥�.
It said the project was likely to involve the creation of a new building, new immersive experiences, new temporary exhibition space, and a new riverside walk.
Paul Lambert, who is head of strategy, finance and corporate services at York Museums Trust, said the number of applicants vying for the project had been 鈥減henomenal鈥�.
鈥淲e are thrilled that we now have our RIBA stage one design team in place and we look forward to working with them on the next steps in realising our ambitious plans for the museum,鈥� he said.
Brooks won the Stirling Prize back in 2008 for the Accordia housing development in Cambridge which the practice worked on alongside Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
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