Nottingham-based GT3 Architects has created a vision for redeveloping the city’s vacant grade II-listed Debenhams department store with a towering extension that would double its current floorspace and deliver new homes, creative space and a hotel.

The store closed its doors for the final time in May 2021 and building owner Longmead Capital has been in discussions with the city council over the future of the site.

GT3 said it had speculatively drawn up concept proposals to add six new storeys to the vacant Old Market Square building in a bid to give the structure a new lease of life and create dynamic new uses.

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