Architectural design services

Tender description

The Barbican Centre, London Symphony Orchestra (‘LSO’) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama (‘GSMD’), are working in partnership to develop plans, funded by the City of London Corporation, for a new Centre for Music in the City of London. The Barbican Centre, LSO and GSMD wish (through the City of London Corporation) to procure the services of an Architect/Lead Designer to lead a design team for the Centre for Music and to progress its capital project to project completion. The Centre for Music will be a state-of-the-art, outstanding building with a world-class concert hall, education, training and digital spaces, excellent facilities for audiences and performers, and supporting commercial areas. Other disciplines will be procured individually as detailed within the associated SQ and Tender documents available at www.capitalesourcing.com web-page. Major Capital Construction Project The Architect/Lead Designer, Civil and Structural Engineer, Building Services Engineer, Acoustic Consultant and Theatre Consultant will be procured independently. The initial appointment will be for concept design to support the business case for the Centre for Music with provision to instruct further RIBA design stages. All Architects invited to tender with receive an honorarium of 10 000 GBP for satisfactory completion of a Response to Brief. The scope of service for the Architect/Lead Designer will include Principal Designer, Fire Engineering, Façade Consultants and Access Consultancy. If there is no capability in house these should be included as sub consultants.