We are pleased to have won the contract for Land use Framework for Chapeltown Road, Leeds. The client is Leeds City Council and the study is a collaboration with GVA Grimley and Andy Edwards Design.

We are pleased to announce that new staff members have joined the firm: Jem Taylor, Sam Wilson, Suzanne Welcker, Sofia Anton and Baharash Bagherian. This signifies steady, but thoughtful, expansion in response to the increase in our 'must do' project list.

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Sarah Mills has left to start her maternity leave and we wish her the very best of luck.

Bauman Lyons are one of six architects shortlisted to design a new museum and library for Castleford. The development will replace the town's current old library and museum room with modern facilities, creating a centre for local people and visitors and celebrating Castleford as a Roman settlement and the birthplace of world-famous sculptor Henry Moore.

Irena Bauman will give a lecture at Situation Leeds Festival on the 27th of May on the subject of Artists/architects and the Public Realm

North Parade has been featured in the Sunday Times in an article reviewing extentions to houses by Hugh Pearman, who says 'With its razor-sharp uptilted roof this is an evolution of that old standby, the glass-box extension, done with great panache'.

It was also featured in the Architects Journal Small Projects Awards 2004.

Bauman Lyons secured a site and a planning permission to build two managed workspace units in the multicultural and vibrant area of Chapeltown in Leeds. We are planning to move in by November 2006 and to rent the remaining space to creative industries businesses. 

The refurbishment of York Art Gallery has been completed with a grand opening on March 17th 2005. The project is seen as a quick win to stimulate futher extensive development work. Feedback is positive with visitor numbers dramatically up with over 10 000 in the first 10 days. Works on show for the opening exhibition include Monet and El Greco.

North Parade received a COMMENDATION in the 2004 RIBA White Rose Awards