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York’s New Public Space: Exploring the challenges to inform concept design

18th March 202116th March 2021 by Helen Graham

The My Castle Gateway Open Brief has been read and fully digested by BDP, the designers working on changing the Castle Car Park into York’s new public space. In their first piece of work they are drawing on the Open Brief, to do a further layer of analysis and to identify challenges and opportunities. My … Read more

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