The managing director of Lendlease’s European property business has said the developer is keen to appoint more smaller, design-led practices to jobs that require particular ingenuity.

Jonathan Emery admitted the firm was a “work in progress” and needed to find a balance between risk and innovation – but that he believed investing in quality design would pay dividends.

He also revealed the firm recently held a charette to find new architects and would do it again because the two-day process had been much more effective at building trust than a regular design competition, he said.

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