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The Chelsea Club.

The new office builds on Fletcher Priest’s recent win in the international competition to masterplan a new urban centre for Riga.  Beating entries from around the world, the first prize winning design creates proposals a 46 hectare area on the left bank of the Daugava River on the edge of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and sets the design foundations for a total of 206 hectares. The win has quickly been followed by a series of new commissions in Latvia, informs BC.

This will be the second overseas studio for the London based practice, who already successfully operate out of an established base in Cologne, Germany.  The Riga office is run by Jonathan Kendall and Inga Kreicmane and will be staffed by a local team in addition to visiting members of the London office.

The opening of the new office is evidence of Fletcher Priest’s urban design expertise – the practice also has custodianship of the master plan for Stratford City in the UK, including the design of the 2012 Athletes Village, and leads the interface with the teams working on the wider Olympic Park. Their urban work ranges from city scale masterplans to interventions in existing urban environments.

Fletcher Priest’s work in Riga will form part of the Latvia Exhibition during the London Festival of Architecture, running from 26th June to 19th July at the Bartlett School of Architecture in the main foyer.

The practice’s designs for Riga’s New Urban Centre will be showcased alongside the Andrejsala Port Project and the national art gallery by OMA among others.