Meet the designers who are fighting for the chance to redesign George Square.

Agence Ter (lead consultant)

The firm has an international reputation for innovative and creative public realm landscape and urban designs, including major international projects such as Les Halles in Paris. The design team will include Hengehan Peng architects. The practice was founded by Shih-Fu Peng and Roisin Heneghan in New York in 1999 and has collaborated with many leading designers and engineers on a wide range of international projects, including the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Central Park Bridges at the 2012 Olympic Park, the Giant's Causeway visitor centre and a library and School of Architecture for the University of Greenwich, London. Also included are Buro Happold (civil, structural and services engineers), Gardner & Theobold (cost consultants), Bartenbach LichtLabor (lighting consultants) and Atmos (art/architect).

 

Burns+Nice (lead consultant)

The landscape architects/urban designers are responsible for many recent public realm works, including Leicester Square in London, the Millennium Quarter in St Helier and a series of new public spaces in and around London such as St Martins Courtyard in Covent Garden, the new precinct outside the Old Baillie and Bow Courtyard. They are currently working on a similar project for Omonoia Square in Athens. Key members of this team will include Halcrow, Rybka Services and Infrastructure, ARUP Lighting and Gardner & Theobold.

 

Gustafson Porter (lead consultant)

Their work is mainly public realm. They have designed and delivered award winning projects at many scales, from memorial fountains to squares, gardens and parks in the UK and abroad. These include the Old Market Square in Nottingham, completed in 2007, Woolwich Squares in London, Westergasfabriek Culture Park in Amsterdam, Parco CityLife in Milan and Shoreline Walk in Beirut.

 

James Corner Field Operations (lead consultant)

An award winning New York firm of landscape architects/urban designers who will lead a team which includes local architects Gillespies, Make Architects, Buro Happold and Speirs & Major. Projects by JCFO include the design of the High Line in New York City, London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a redevelopment of Earl's Court, Chicago's historic Navy Pier, a new waterfront city for Shenzhen in China, a master plan for Seattle's Central Waterfront, The Race Street Pier in Philadelphia, Hong Kong's Tsim Sha Tsui Waterfront and the design of the Civic Center Parks in Santa Monica.

 

JM Architects (lead consultant)

An award winning architecture firm with offices in Glasgow. They are leading a multidiscipline team which includes Edinburgh based Graeme Massie Architects (architect of the year award, Scottish Design Awards 2010). The team has experience in delivering innovative and robust architectural and landscape projects. Recent work include Glasgow School of Art, Hillhead Primary School, and the redevelopment of Bonn Square in Oxford.

 

John McAslan and Partners (lead consultant)

A multi-award winning architecture, urban design and landscape design practice. They have experience in delivering multi-discipline projects including the redevelopment of the Grade I listed King's Cross Station, which included significant public realm and infrastructure. They were master planner and design architect of the Stanislavsky Factory development, a mix of reusing of historic buildings tied together with a new landscape design in Moscow.