Grimshaw Architects has won a design competition to masterplan the redevelopment of the University of Bern’s Muesmatt campus, near the Swiss city’s medieval Unesco World Heritage Site old town.

The practice beat 25 other shortlisted teams bidding for the project and will work with local practice Archipel Generalplanung and Land Suisse Sagl to “open up” the quarter, re-establishing street and visual connections and enhancing public spaces in the process.

But the project has already been put on ice for five years by the regional council which said it had to prioritise investment in building stock.

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