Construction works are progressing at Modern Art Oxford. The £2M project will transform the ground floor to create a new entrance, community gallery and education space. The lower ground floor will become a new café designed by artist Emma Hart. The gallery is due to reopen in October with an exhibition by Cuban artist Belkis Ayón (1967 – 1999). Visit the Modern Art Oxford website for more information.

We are thrilled to share the news that, in collaboration with NoAarchitecten and Asli Çiçek, we are winners in the Vlaams Bouwmeester competition to expand the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, (SMAK) in Ghent, Belgium. The 'City Museum for Art', is home to one of Belgium's most important collections of contemporary art. The €90M project will create 20,000m2 of gallery space. For more information visit the project webpage here.

Many congratulations to our colleagues Laura Büchi and Emily Dan who qualified as architects. They have both already made major contributions to the practice and we are excited to be part of the next stages in their careers.

Our project for Stephen Friedman Gallery on Cork St has been covered by international magazine Wallpaper*. The article follows the opening of the 60th Venice Biennale in which three of the gallery’s roster participated: Jeffrey Gibson, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and Leilah Babirye.
Architecture editor Ellie Stathaki describes the new flagship showroom as ‘infused with subtly playful elegance’. Read the full review in Wallpaper*. For more information visit the project's webpage.

Artist Eva Rothschild RA has designed the main entrance gates to our new quad for New College, Oxford. The design is based on a shifting linear perspective of a mountain path and will be unveiled next month. To see more of Eva’s work please visit the artist's website and to find out more about our New College project please visit our website.

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'An important step forward in Birmingham's transformation as an international city', says Project Lead Colin Murphy of Lendlease about Birmingham Smithfield, which has now been resubmitted for planning. The new market halls designed in collaboration with Eastside Projects is the centrepiece of a £1.9 billion mixed use quarter commissioned by Birmingham Council. Conceived as a city in miniature, the market building rehouses the food market which has existed at Smithfield for over 800 years and includes a dining hall, restaurant, and event spaces. Find out more about the scheme at The Architects' Journal website.

We are delighted to be shortlisted in an international design competition to revitalise the Breda Department Store in Opava, Czech Republic, a significant heritage-listed building designed by renowned Czech architect Leopold Bauer in the 1920s. Together with our collaborators Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, we are one of five teams selected to develop a proposal for its re-use. More details about the competition can be found here.