The winning architects have been selected to design a new footbridge over the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Bootle, Merseyside.
Sefton Council chose Softroom Architects with Eckersley O’Callaghan Structural Engineers on the back of its ‘wonderfully elegant design that works very well on what is a constricted site’. Some 88 entries were received for the RIBA-organised international open design competition, with six schemes selected to go through to the second scheme. The new footbridge will form part of a wider regeneration of the area, which will also include a new housing development. A spokesman for Sefton said: ‘The Housing Market Renewal programme is about transforming communities into sustainable and attractive places to live, work and visit. This bridge will form a major part in making this happen.’