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The Haymarket master-plan is the largest project to date that Richard Murphy Architects has taken on. Tiger Developments approached the practice when the site was for sale and their bid was successful in the summer of 2006. The practice’s role has been three-fold: to master-plan the entire site; to design the exterior of three office buildings working alongside CDA Architects; and to design a new 180 bed five star hotel. A second three star hotel, designed by Sutherland Hussey Architects, is also part of the RMA master-plan. Unusually, the site has never been developed, having been converted from pasture into goods yards in the mid 19th century. The tracks were removed in the 1960s and the site is currently a car park, although it has been subject to at least two planning consents since then, the most recent by EDI which proposed a mostly office and retail development. This proposal received consent in 2006.