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In 2023 we submitted plans to regenerate Bilston Market on behalf of City of Wolverhampton Council. Working closely with traders, the Council and the wider community, we replaced the market's tired, end-of-life canopy with a new covered structure, refurbishing the market office building, and stitching the Indoor and Outdoor Markets together with a continuous public realm - all to secure the market's future as the beating heart of Bilston town centre.

Through extensive consultation and concept development sessions we curated a tangible Masterplan Vision for Spalding to meet the government's Pride in Place funding criteria. The plan was supported by the Board and captured the public feedback and input.

We are working with Norwich City Council, Inner Circle Consulting and the wider design team, alongside the traders, public and key stakeholders, to realise the next phase of this historically important market.
The project aims to build around the already successful characteristics of this vibrant city centre market, preserving its future and enhancing its potential as one of the key assets in Norwich.

Darley St. Market is a £32.5 million Market Hall and events space in Bradford. This landmark development unites food, trade and community in a socially-driven, low-carbon regeneration. The project reimagines the market as a vibrant and inclusive civic space.

Torba is a popular community-focused, eco-friendly farmers market in Qatar that highlights local organic produce, artisanal foods, and handcrafted goods. We worked with the Torba team to reimagine their market layout and helped to identify future development potential of the site.

We secured Levelling Up Funding (now MHCLG) and planning permission for the transformation of Melton Mowbray's historic Stockyard - turning a landmark livestock market into a thriving regional destination for food production, culture, and community that will put the Rural Capital of Food firmly on the national map.

We're developing design proposals for the enhancement of Whitechapel Road Market, as part of the wider Whitechapel Road Improvements Programme (WRIP). Working alongside the wider design and construction teams, we're shaping proposals for new market stall infrastructure - designed to improve traders' day-to-day facilities and give the market a sustainable footing for the years ahead.

We worked with Rossendale Borough Council on the successful Levelling Up funding bid for the new vision for Rawtenstall Market.

We secured planning permission for the restoration of Huddersfield's Grade II* Open Market, an iron and glass Market Hall of 1887-9, funded by a £16.5 million investment from the UK Government as part of Kirklees Council's Huddersfield Blueprint for the town centre.

Our proposals keep the second-hand and general goods markets at centre of a traditional market offer, repairing and repainting the cast-iron frame in the original colours, and make enhancements to introduce flexibility for additional uses. The proposals are key to the council’s vision of future-proofing the market by increasing opportunities for social inclusion for all of Huddersfield’s communities.  

Le Marché de l'Haÿ-les-Roses is a modern market hall on the historic site of the original outdoor market, sitting along the Paris greenbelt and within easy reach of the town centre. The 1,900m² hall brings together 40 food stalls, a casual market area along the service zone, and a restaurant on the upper floor overlooking the market activity below. Positioned at the crossroads of the town's main roads, the building welcomes visitors under an inviting and well-opened outdoor covered space.

The production of a public realm and market masterplan vision for the town centre.

Developed a town centre masterplan for the new markets, public realm, retail and boutique hotel development. The council were successfully awarded £17.9m from the Levelling Up Fund.

The design of a new food concept for the Elephant Park development. The scale of intervention changed over time, with the aspirations of the 'theatre of flour' food production-focused-facility proving difficult to implement at the base of the residential block.

Worked closely with the Milton Keynes Development Partnership to provide a new and ambitious vision for the Market. We undertook extensive consultation with numerous stakeholder groups to establish an exciting vision.

Phase 2 of the Leicester Market Masterplan that included the demolition of the 1970s former market building, the creation of a new public square in a prominent conservation area, with works to open up a Grade II listed pub, and refurbish and screen the long neglected rear façade of the Grade II* Corn Exchange.
The scheme acquired two listed building consents, one for a more ambitious activation of the Corn Exchange building, and the implemented scheme, with more focus on offering more space to the square over commercial activation.

In 2018, we were commissioned to convert St Mark's Church in Mayfair into a cultural hub and sustainable community market. Working with Mercato Metropolitano, we transformed a Grade I listed Victorian church into Mercato Mayfair, a three-storey food and social enterprise market bringing together independent producers, local traders and the wider community.

We were given the building blocks of shipping containers - that the temporary market was housed in - to create a permanent home for the city centre market. Working with the existing containers and new ISO units we delivered the new facilities, with the public realm, parking, trader storage and market offices.

The continuation of our partnership with Brindisa, delivering a new restaurant offering in Shoreditch.

The transformation of an office block courtyard to make a new winter garden public and commercial space. The grid-shell glulam structure floods the atrium with light, providing an all-year-round activation and meeting place, tying the functions of the building together.

Design concept for a floating fish market in Copenhagen.

We worked with Milligan Retail, the Urban Market Company and John McAslan + Partners to provide a Planning-ready design and business case for the reimagined Camden Lock Market.

We were commissioned to lead the regeneration of one of the largest outdoor markets in Europe. Leicester Market has traded continuously in the heart of the city for over 700 years, and our starting point of the 3-phase Masterplan was a new food hall that would set the tone for everything that followed.

We designed and delivered Brindisa's new shop unit beneath the Floral Hall in Borough Market, with a revamped aesthetic and operations of their famous chorizo bun kiosk.

We were commissioned by The Link REIT to reimagine two of Hong Kong's fresh food markets, Lok Fu and Tai Yuen, as part of a wider ambition to change the image and atmosphere of the territory's wet markets. Across both projects, our focus was on the balance between commercial performance and cultural identity: reconfiguring layouts to work harder for traders and landlords, while protecting the freshness, energy and 'organised chaos' that make Hong Kong's markets so distinctive. Rather than sanitising these spaces, we worked to elevate them, giving them greater prominence within their communities while preserving what shoppers and traders love most about them.

As part of the €300M 50,000m2 centre - a mixed development of retail, cinema, supermarket, office, residential and parking - g+s were appointed as the retail and interior architects.

Walthamstow Market is widely recognised as the longest outdoor daily street market in Europe, stretching for approximately one kilometer along the High Street.
Our work saw engagement with the trader groups and retailers to facilitate a revised positioning strategy that looked to provide greater activations and footfall flows for the benefit of trader, customer and the surrounding retailers.

A new public space linking two premier shopping districts in the centre of Liverpool.
We were commissioned to create a new public space called Keys Court, which formed a new pedestrian route in Liverpool city centre.
The route connected the busy and animated Church Street to the new Paradise Street development.
The £10m project was part of the Liverpool One programme, created by Grosvenor and its investment partners and developed by the Paradise Street Development Area project (PSDA).

A mixed-use retail and residential development created in a dis-used library and museum of fine art. It consists of 17 units and 12 loft apartments accessed via the bell tower.

We acted as tenant liaison architects advising on shop fronts, interiors and signage. The work was part of a new £200M shopping centre in Kingston upon Hull, a key constituent of a wider programme to regenerate the town.

We were invited to submit proposals for the reconfiguration and refurbishment of Alexandrium, Rotterdam - the final phase of what was to become one of Holland's largest shopping centres.

g+s developed a mixed-use development of retail space and loft apartments for the site adjacent to Place St Lambert (previously known as Le Grand Bazaar) in Liège.

We were commissioned by Preston City Council to revitalise the historic market in the civic heart of the town centre. Working with two existing listed structures, the project was as much about understanding what Preston's market meant to its community as it was about redesigning it.

Spanning many years and fifteen thousand square metres, Borough Market is one of London's most celebrated regeneration stories. Commissioned by the market's trustees to revitalise a site in serious decline, we transformed a complex network of Victorian structures, railway viaducts and open spaces into one of the world's most visited food markets and a catalyst for the wider regeneration of Southwark.

One of greig + stephenson's original market projects, Leeds Kirkgate 1904 refurbishment and redevelopment was an early lesson on the intricacies and complexities of market-led projects. The level of engagement and detail required to satisfy the heritage needs of the building, and the contemporary needs of the traders, was enlightening at the time.

Shortlisted design competition for the redevelopment of Great Yarmouth Market.

Design competition for the refurbishment and reuse of Walworth Town Hall, which was seriously damaged by fire. We were working with Milligan Retail, under their CreativeRace concept to focus on 'maker-doer-seller' type offers to activate the important heritage asset.

An open tender process for the reimagination of a disused department store for a mixed use development.

Shortlisted concept development competition for the new Halle de Taverny Market.

Shortlisted for this special listed cultural venue in Herne Bay.