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Amanda Levete to help find architect for £1.5bn Birmingham job
Lendlease appoints Selfridges designer to jury
Amanda Levete has been appointed to the jury of an international design competition to find an architect for a new home for the Birmingham Markets.
Lendlease was chosen in January as Birmingham council’s development partner for a £1.5bn scheme to revamp a city centre site called Smithfield.
The plot in Digbeth covers 17ha and will be home to Birmingham’s Bull Ring retail markets as well as leisure and cultural space, a public square and more than 2,000 homes. The scheme will take 15 years to complete.
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