There is always something happening at the practice, whether we are designing, building or celebrating, you’ll find out all about whats happening with us here.
BCC Newround has featured the recently completely Eco Vicarage at Penzer Street, Kingswinford as an exemplar of sustainable home building. The EcoVicarage at Penzer Street achieves a double first: the first home in England to achieve the twin gold standards of environmental performance. First, zero carbon (level 6) under the UK Code for Sustainable Homes, […]
Over what appeared to be the hottest, most cloudless weekend of the year so far, Simon Jesson climbed Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon with a team from Couch Perry Wilkes covering over 24 miles of walking, 450 driving and just over 10,000ft climbing in under 24 hours. Together they raised well over £2,500 for […]
10 Woodcock Street has won the OAS Development Awards 2012 – Best Development oustide Central London! The judges said “The rejuvenation of this brownfield site has consolidated numerous offices into a single building that has resulted in a complete seachange in attitude in the workplace”. Congratulations to BCC.
We are delighted to announce that we have won the *AJ100 Midlands Practice of the Year* award! Adam Wardle and James Hall were on hand to recieve the award at last night’s glittering awards evening at the Grange Hotel in London. We’d like to say a huge thanks to our clients for their continuing trust […]
We have been helping to support K2TOG, a spectacular graffiti knitting installation project at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Chamberlain Square, which will welcome and celebrate the Jamaican and American teams stay in Birmingham this summer for London 2012. The colours of the Olympian woolly intervention will match those of the teams’ national flags […]
We’ve made it into the Architects Journal AJ100 survey of the top 100 UK architectural practices! And what’s more we’ve been shortlisted in the following categories for the AJ100 awards that are announced on 16 May 2012: New Entrant New Member of the Year Regional Practice of the Year (Midlands) Fingers crossed!
Planning consent for the extension of Woodlands Campus of Solihull College “(@solihullcollege)”:http://twitter.com/#!/solihullcollege was granted on 25th April by the unanimous agreement of all 9 members of Solihull MBC Planning Committee. The project was recognised as being strategically important to the development of skills in the North Solihull area and tackling unemployment in the Borough. The […]
One of our long standing clients; The King’s School Worcester has kept an interesting blog about the development of the “Boathouse”:http://www.www.associated-architects.co.uk/projects/education/independent/the-michael-baker-boathouse/ we have designed for them. Read more here: “http://www.ksw.org.uk/the-trust/latest-news/boathouse-blog-march-2012”:http://www.ksw.org.uk/the-trust/latest-news/boathouse-blog-march-2012
Construction work has completed on the new police station in Market Drayton. The existing 1930 building has been replaced with a sustainable and purpose built station, with Associated Architects working with the local planning authority to develop a contemporary design which is sensitive to the surrounding area. The building has achieved an Excellent rating under […]
Planning Consent for Medical Teaching Building, University of Leicester
16.03.12
News & Events
Planning consent has been received for the University of Leicester’s new “Medical Teaching Building”:http://www.www.associated-architects.co.uk/projects/education/universities/medical-teaching-building/. The new 13,000sq.m building will accommodate teaching, lecture and offices for research and medical academia and is designed to Passivhaus standards. The £30m project is programmed to complete in September 2015.
Birmingham City University’s new building for the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is rising rapidly from the ground at Eastside following the successful early stages of construction, completed ahead of programme by contractor Willmott Dixon. The building is to be linked by a bridge to Millennium Point and will provide shared media studios and […]
Our recently completed Eco Vicarage in Stourbridge featured in the Sunday Telegraph. As far as we know it’s the first home in England to achieve both the two gold standard measures of environmental performance. Firstly, it’s rated as zero carbon (level 6) under the UK Code for Sustainable Homes. This measures holistic sustainability across nine […]
A large photograph of the new steps and green wall at The Mailbox canalside was used in The Guardian this weekend in an article about the record breaking temperatures in the UK over the weekend. Glad to see people using the steps as they were intended for…..chilling in the sunshine.
Due to continuing success in securing new commissions, Associated Architects has a number of permanent employment opportunities in our Birmingham office. We are looking for dedicated and talented people to work on a number of high profile projects in the University and School sectors. *Architects:* Experienced RIBA qualified Architects with 2-5 years experience and able […]
