"York's medieval Guildhall is an iconic part of the city's long history and has a prominent location adjacent to the River Ouse.

The proposal is a civic response, which integrates within the existing urban grain, creating new connections and a series of cascading terraces and courtyards, providing new public space with a multitude of different uses and activities, overlooking the river.

A landscaped courtyard provides a central focus to the Creative Arts Centre, with the social spaces arranged around its perimeter in combination with adjacent studios, workshops, and hub spaces. This arrangement is intended to aid communication, offering places for people to meet, discuss ideas, share knowledge and network, whilst at the same time allowing building users and visitors to see and experience the creative processes going on in the surrounding studios."