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A66/Cargo Fleet Transport Interchange Competition Shortlist Announced

24th January 2007

Expressions of interest were sought from landscape architects, architects, horticulturists, ecologists, engineers, designers and artists working in the public realm, to develop proposals for the landscape of the A66/Cargo Fleet transport interchange in the east of the city. Major developments along the A66 are the spur for the project and it is hoped the design phase of the competition will bring forward ideas for improvements to the built and natural environment and give visitors and investors a real sense of arrival when they come to Middlesbrough.

The client was pleased by the response to the competition which elicited twenty eight (28) expressions of interest from across the world.

The five teams selected to take part in the design phase of this competition are those that the assessment panel felt would be most capable of producing high quality and innovative design that would invigorate the A66 road corridor from Newport to Cargo Fleet.

The five practices (in alphabetical order) invited to proceed to the design phase of the competition were as follows:

Anthony Walker + Partners - LI Registered Practice
Arkhenspaces Architecture
Halsall Lloyd Partership - LI Registered Practice
McChesney Architects
Newbetter

Each shortlisted team will be invited to present their final designs to the Panel during week commencing 19th March after which a winner will be announced.

Source: RIBA