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Leeds Architecture Tours

Architecture Guides in West Yorkshire – City Building Walks in northern England, United Kingdom.

post updated 15 May 2024

Contact us for your walking tour in Yorkshire on isabelle(at)e-architect.com

Leeds Architecture – Introduction

The city is located in Yorkshire, in the north of England, on the River Aire. The city is famous for architecture such as the Town Hall building, the City Markets, Carnegie Pavilion at Headingley Cricket Club, Bridgewater Place tower and the Corn Exchange building.

Broadcasting Place:
Broadcasting Place Leeds Tower
image © Will Pryce Photography

Leeds Architecture Walking Tours

Famous architects with buildings in the city include EMBT and Jeremy Dixon.Edward Jones. Other key architects with work in the city include Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Heatherwick Studio, John McAslan & Partners, Aedas, Benoy and the Jerde Partnership.

Leeds Town Hall building:
Leeds Architecture Tours - Town Hall building facade
photograph © Adrian Welch

Leeds Walking Tours

Leeds Architecture Tours can be suited to your group’s areas of architectural interest, for example a group wishing to view contemporary office buildings or historic houses can usually be accommodated by our guides.

Building in the city centre:
Leeds comemrcial tower building - walking tours
picture © Adrian Welch

Please advise us of specific interests and we can assist in your itinerary preparation ahead of the walking tour.

Granary Wharf building
Granary Wharf Hotel Leeds Architecture Tours
photo : Hufton + Crow

Leeds Architectural Walking Tours

Contact Isabelle Lomholt to arrange your architecture tour on mobile or email isabelle(at)e-architect.com

Payments must be made in full prior to the architectural tour.

Leeds Buildings : architectural news + key building projects
Watermans Place Leeds
photo : Hufton + Crow

Maggie’s Yorkshire Centre, at St James’s University Hospital
Design: Heatherwick Studio
Maggie’s Yorkshire Centre, building by Heatherwick Studio
images courtesy of architects
Maggie’s Yorkshire Centre Building

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Architecture Walking Tours

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, Northern England, UK

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Some recent architectural projects that can be visited on your tour of the city:

Leeds Beckett University Creative Arts Building, Woodhouse Lane
Architects: Hawkins\Brown
Leeds Beckett University Creative Arts Building
image courtesy of architects
Leeds Beckett University Creative Arts Building

Citu Home
Architects: White Arkitekter
Citu Home Leeds Architecture News
image courtesy of architects
Citu Home Leeds

Emerald Headingley Stadium
Design: DLA Architects; Structural engineering design: TRP Consulting
Emerald Headingley Stadium Leeds building
image courtesy of architects
Emerald Headingley Stadium Building

Globe Point Leeds
Building architect: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS); Interior Designer: Ekho Studio
Globe Point Leeds Temple District building
photo : Tom Bird
Globe Point Leeds Temple District Property
Interior designers Ekho Studio have completed the 300 sqm ground-floor amenity design that sets the tone at newly-completed Globe Point, the first of the CEG Group’s developments to be completed within the regenerated Temple district in Holbeck. The 37,800 sqft, seven-storey, BREEAM Excellent and WiredScore Platinum office development – by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios – is the first new-build office property to be delivered in Leeds this year.

Westbank Leeds, South Bank regeneration area
Design: DLA Architecture
Westbank Leeds South Bank office accommodation
image courtesy of architects practice
Westbank Leeds South Bank Commercial Property
Proposals were presented yesterday to Leeds City Council Plans Panel for a significant new £150 m mixed-use scheme on a prime site in the South Bank regeneration area of Leeds City Centre. On behalf of Joint venture partnership Stamford Property Holdings and Shelborn Asset Management, which acquired the site adjacent to Bridgewater Place last year, DLA Architecture presented new designs for the four-acre site that currently houses a three-storey call centre building with 117 car parking spaces.

Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residences, North Leeds
Design: Howarth Litchfield Architects, Durham
Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residences
image courtesy of architects practice
Whitelock Street Leeds Student Residences
As regeneration begins on a disused site in Whitelock Street, north of Leeds city centre, Alumno is planning a wide-ranging programme of artists commissions for its new development to support the city’s growing student population.

Pin Yard, Siddall Street, Holbeck Urban Village area
Pin Yard Leeds Apartments, Holbeck Urban Village
photo courtesy of Grainger plc
Pin Yard Leeds Apartments, Holbeck Urban Village
The UK’s largest listed provider of private rental homes, Grainger plc, is expanding its portfolio of build to rent properties in Leeds, with a stylish new residential development, Pin Yard, designed exclusively for the modern-day renter.

Wellington Place buildings
Wellington Place - Leeds Architecture Tours
image © Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects

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