Carmody Groarke has been appointed to work up proposals for the refurbishment and expansion of Carlisle’s Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery as part of a project to mark its 125^th anniversary.

The practice, which is BD’s current architect of the year, will create a masterlan for the future of the Carlisle centre, which includes a grade I-listed Jacobean house but also features a more modern art gallery.

Supported by a Heritage Lottery Fund grant, the project will see Carmody Groarke work as part of a team with the museum operators and business planners, Counterculture.

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