Landsec, owner of the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow, has hired city practice Threesixty Architecture to draw up fresh plans for the shopping mall.

The firm will replace Foster + Partners on the project to redevelop the mall which was built only three decades ago and was designed by Jenkins & Marr Architects.

The new designs will remodel the existing structure rather than seek a complete rebuild.

The practice’s managing director Alan Anthony told The Architects Journal: “Plans to work with the existing shopping centre and adapt it to be more generous and engaging to the street will more quickly achieve the transformation of the ‘top of the town’ and with far less disruption to our city centre.

“By creating relevance and greater resilience, this could well offer a blueprint on how we might reinvent similar structures that dominate many instances of our urban centres.”

Landsec scrapped plans from Foster + Partners last October after favouring a redevelopment of the structure instead of a demolition and rebuild.

The company’s head of retail development, Nick Davis, said: “Given the way cities have changed, and retail’s strong post pandemic recovery, we’re exploring a masterplan that can be delivered in incremental phases.

“In conversations with brands, and through engagement with the public, we know that there is both consumer and commercial appetite for this to be delivered and delivered quickly.”