Set in the centre of Wolverhampton adjacent to the ring road, the St George’s quarter is an unloved brownfield site of surface car-parking, a derelict Sainsbury’s building and St George’s Church. Capital & Centric invited four architectural teams to enter an international design competition led by the Royal Institute of British Architects to propose visions for regeneration. Mikhail Riches winning masterplan entry proposed to stitch existing heritage assets with new-build components into a vibrant new urban quarter with 400 new homes, workspace, cafe-bars, eateries and a community centre, with St George’s Grade II listed church as the centre piece. As part of our entry, we proposed to retain and repurpose parts of the former Sainsbury’s building – in turn saving embodied carbon.