Squire & Partners has replaced David Chipperfield Architects on a project that would see the never-completed terracotta façade of a former Harrods garage built out after more than a century.

The building, half a mile from the famous Knightsbridge department store, was designed by the same architect, CW Stephens, in 1911, to be a garage and workshop for Harrods.

But the First World War and land ownership difficulties curtailed the project and the extravagant neo-classical terracotta façade, which should have wrapped the whole block, was never completed.

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