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No one values the aesthetics of buildings more than us, but beauty should also extend beneath the surface to function if it's to meet needs and aspirations and improve the lives of its users.
There are many challenges - site constraints, time and budget pressures and future adaptation
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Inventively practical
High quality, cost effective architecture comes from an inspired response to the building's context. Our architects deal with the increasingly complex requirements of the built environment by showing real invention in design and construction.
They push the planning envelope, without breaking it, which explains why all of our planning applications have been approved. And by scoping the future, they can design buildings that can adapt to new uses and demands.
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Virtual beta testing, for A+ results
Architecture is changing. The richness of data, and powerful new ways of handling it let us create the virtual future of your building. You can experience it, and assess how the feel of your asset meets your aesthetic, environmental, special and user needs. This will give you a vision teams can really get behind and provide beta learning to feed back into the design. And when you need it, our Operations Consulting and BIM teams are there with sophisticated extra resource for highly complex tasks.
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Intelligent evolution is designed in
What if? When you're planning a building, it's a question you've got to keep asking. What if the business environment changes? What if technology moves on? To support your business objectives we'll design in evolution to cope with different contingencies.
Circle Hospital Birmingham is designed to expand from its core function in eight different phases. It will be able to respond to changing business needs with minimal cost and disruption.
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One team, one vision, every kind of skill
We bring together architecture, structure and building services. Our many different specialists work together under one roof to give you a seamless delivery from a single, integrated team. It means a more comprehensive response to your requirements and architecture that works harder for you. A clear design intent is carried through to expert detailing and crafting to give you the vision we set out at concept stage.
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From end to end, and everywhere in-between
With leading edge expertise across a wide range of sectors, we work from inception to final delivery. So even if you choose us for architectural design, the breadth of our offering helps us connect with and have a greater understand of the requirements of other disciplines.
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Proof Points
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In 2017 Bryden Wood earned a place in the AJ100. We were finalists in ‘The New Member of the Year’ award in 2017, shortlisted for ‘Fastest growing practice of the year’ in 2018 and won the ‘Best Use of Technology’ Award in 2019.
Paul O’Neill, Bryden Wood Architecture Director commenting said: "We’re delighted to have entered the prestigious AJ100 for the first time in 2017, and in 2019 we move up the list to 51st. This is a great reflection on the quality of work that colleagues are producing.
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Bryden Wood has won a number of awards. This ranges from architectural design awards for patient environments in healthcare projects, to health and safety excellence awards for offsite and prefabrication expertise were we were cited for “seamless commitment to safety from conception of a project right through to its completed and beyond”, with particular praise reserved for how the architectural practice had “embedded its approach” to health and safety within our company ethos.
Recent achievements include: AIA Award of Excellence in Architecture for Beach Shack, Shortlist for Best use of Technology, AJ Retrofit Awards Shortlist for Great Western Studios, East Midlands Constructing Excellence Shortlist for Mahle Powertrain, AJ Specification Awards Shortlist for Southbank Centre in Technology section, AJ Specification Awards Shortlist for Crossrail Lining in Facades and Cladding section and Queens Award for Innovation.
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For all projects we create sophisticated design models that can be used in a wide range of innovative ways including, architectural visualisations, digital simulations, virtual reality, process and production analysis, whole life energy use, 4D, 5D and 6D usage and scenario planning.
See information on our Creative Technology work for further details.
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Bryden Wood are an RIBA Chartered Practice.
Paul O’Neill is part of the Planning Expert Advisory Group. Bryden wood are consulted by the RIBA in DFMA / offsite matters and participate in a number of events including the Smart Practice conference.
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In 2019 Bryden Wood became a Partner Member of New London Architecture.
As part of the membership Bryden Wood will be contributing to the NLA events programme.
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