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Work on-site is now well on its way to creating two National Colleges for High Speed Rail (NCHSR).
These colleges will train the next generation of high-speed rail engineers by providing a “real work” environment to prepare students for work on the future of the high-speed rail network’s infrastructure.
Bond Bryan are working in partnership with Willmott Dixon to complete this scheme; more information can be found by clicking on the links below:
Planning permission has now been granted for Bond Bryan’s latest venture into advanced manufacturing with a production facility in Telford for Magna/Cosma Castings UK – the leading global automotive supplier.
Construction is expected to start in the autumn of 2016 with completion by January 2018; the facility will use Magna’s innovative high-pressure vacuum die-casting process to produce a number of advanced lightweight aluminium castings – a key building block in the next generation of all-aluminium and multi-material vehicle architectures.
By utilising these types of castings, Magna helps automakers to deliver maximum strength, stiffness and minimum weight – ultimately achieving better fuel economy, safety and handling.
The new facility will be approximately 225,000 square feet and will create up to 295 jobs at full capacity.
Fran Holloway, lead designer and associate director at Bond Bryan Architects said:“Our brief was to create a well-designed, sustainable building and environment which fully serves the end user’s requirements whilst also integrating well with the site’s surroundings and other proposed developments at T54. The scheme will create a new habitat whilst maintaining key green corridors. It will provide a pleasant working environment for those employed at the site, whilst offering a range of transport options. It will also result in the creation of new jobs in the area – putting this area “on the map” for key employers.”
The key design feature of the building is a glazed atrium, centrally located to link the main customer entrance through to the manufacturing production floor. It is intended that, although each zone will be visually and spatially linked, it will essentially be a self-contained unit with secure boundaries. A feature staircase and strategically-located lift will connect the building vertically. The shared atrium area, forming the link between two zones, will provide a connection point to the social and breakout area housing the cafeteria and providing access to the remaining amenities.
The design aims to create a distinctive, high quality catalyst to Plot 6 TS4. The key external appearance of the building has been given due consideration to provide a welcoming and inviting building that reflects the high quality production facility internally.
Councillor Shaun Davies, Telford & Wrekin Council’s cabinet member for Business, commented: “This signals the dawn of a bright new era of opportunity for everyone in the borough. In Telford, we pride ourselves on being inventive and dynamic and the details of the high tech production process for this planned facility shows this is a perfect fit for us. The new facility represents a hugely significant multi-million pound investment which demonstrates that Telford & Wrekin Council’s drive to attract new business and jobs is realising spectacular results. This major development will see the creation of 295 skilled local jobs when the plant is at full capacity. The investment will also support many more jobs in the local supply chain”.
Bond Bryan Architects are thrilled to have two projects shortlisted for the Sheffield Design Awards 2016.
Two of the three shortlisted projects – the AMRC Factory 2050 and Sheffield Hallam, Charles Street – will go head-to-head for the title of ‘Best Building’ and the ‘People’s Choice Award’- voted for by the public for their favourite iconic building.
The Design Awards ceremony will take place on 26th October 2016 in the Head Post Office building in Fitzalan Square, the new home of the Sheffield Institute of Arts at Sheffield Hallam University.
For more information and to cast your vote for the People’s Choice Award, please click here
Bond Bryan are delighted to be sponsoring this year’s Sheffield School of Architecture Summer School – Making Cities.
Bond Bryan Director, Bruce Raw commented: “Bond Bryan Architects are delighted to sponsor this year’s SSoA’s Summer School. This year’s 5 day programme, offers participants a fantastic insight into the world of Architecture and a chance to work alongside representatives from a number of leading Architectural practices.”
Sheffield is a fascinating city of rich heritage and complex urban systems.Throughout the centuries, Sheffield’s industrial and economic significance has shaped the city, leaving a tantalising array of challenges and opportunities.
The focus of the Summer School is said to examine the urban corridor along the river Don in the City of Sheffield and propose “meanwhile” solutions to vacant or underused sites currently undergoing long-term re-development.
For more information please click here.
Bond Bryan’s design for iMET (Innovation Manufacturing Engineering Technology), in Alconbury Weald has received planning permission.
The development proposals seek to provide a new training concept being developed to support growth and economic development in the East of England. iMET (innovation Manufacturing Engineering Technology) will deliver technical, advanced and higher vocational skills training in Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology to regional industry by providing specialist equipment in a modern environment with excellent transport links.
Zubin Masters, Associate Director of Bond Bryan Architects explained: Using our experience of creating environments for Education and Advanced Manufacturing Bond Bryan were able to support Huntingdonshire Regional College and its partners to develop a brief and an elegant design solution for this unique facility. The designs for iMET are a result of a genuine collaborative effort between the design team, the client, Urban & Civic the master developers and the contractor Willmott Dixon.
The proposed site for the iMET Building is within the Alconbury Weald Development in Huntingdonshire. The building is sited at the nucleus of the Enterprise Campus, which is part of the wider development plans for the 575 hectare former Alconbury Weald Airfield into a new community comprising 5,000 new homes, a school, employment generators, green space and community facilities.
The design solution brings together traditional teaching spaces, specialist workshops and laboratories and collaborative work environments into a simple and flexible two-storey building. Double-height workshops provide space for larger scale training and a teaching wing provides smaller scale training rooms and specialist laboratories. Between these a flexible collaboration space provides opportunities for informal group and project work as well as offering a venue for employer events.
The architectural language is driven by the desire to create a simple but distinctive contemporary building that reflects the underlying design concepts and draws on the precedents of high quality design already established on the Alconbury Enterprise Campus; the Incubator and Hub, to provide a cohesive campus feel.
A key feature of the building is the perforated metal skin overlaying the base layer panels wrapping the façade. The perforated aluminium ‘rainscreen’ system aims to provide a striking and distinctive image for the new centre. The skin incorporates interplay of solid and void, using differing sizes of perforations to orchestrate varying levels of transparency and areas of both light and shadow. This will transform the industrial form from a typical black box environment to a light filled space with a strong visual connection to the outside. Functionally the perforated skin also serves to provide solar shading and glare control where necessary.
The design aims to create an economic and flexible solution that will nevertheless create a distinctive, high quality addition to the campus that reflects the importance of the new facility.
Work will begin on site in August 2016 with doors opening to students in September 2017.
Bond Bryan are thrilled that planning permission has been granted for Coventry City’s new fire station.
Bond Bryan worked closely with the Fire Service and consultants to help to inspire and design a unique proposal that would exceed expectations and provide a beacon for future fire stations. Community engagement is paramount to the success of this project, therefore the design team wanted to understand how we could improve the end-users’ experience of the building. By focusing the design on relating to how people and the appliances approach the building, the team were able to position the building in a far better urban setting – which promotes the West Midlands Fire Service’s vision. The design concept was to create a building that represents the carbon-based nature of the work that the fire fighters carry out; this also portrays a solid base in recognition of the foundations that the Fire Service provides to the wider public; this whilst also engaging the sloping site in order to position the building within its context.
Coventry Fire Station will be comprised of circa 2,000 square metres of a newly-developed purpose-built building; demolition of the existing site is due to start later this year, with the new build to commence during January 2017.
The Al Bassam Elementary School in Dammam will open to students this September. Designed by Bond Bryan Architects in the UK, and led by the International team based in the Middle East and London, the school was delivered by the Al Bassam Group. The School represents a great step forward in creating quality learning environments in the challenging and harsh climate of the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Working closely with Al Bassam during the design process, the key criterion of creating quality internal space with good quality light was the foundation of the design, placing teaching space around a central top lit atrium space. Adding colour and form to the exterior elevations gives the school distinction and quality in an otherwise bland suburban environment, giving a sense of place and pride in the local community who use the school.
On Wednesday night, members’ from the Bond Bryan Architects team joined in the celebrations at the Tower of London to honour the biggest architectural firms in Britain at the AJ100 Member’s Dinner and Awards.
Bond Bryan are delighted to be placed amongst the top UK practices, moving up the rankings to reach 45th place in the country. This accolade highlights the progress that the practice has made over the last year as Bond Bryan continues to grow both in the UK and overseas.
The Architects’ Journal publishes the shortlist each year according to the number of UK ARB-registered architects employed.
Our very own Bond Bryan Architects’ Director Darren Southgate is, “surprised yet delighted” to discover that he is on a shortlist of five for the Property Personality of the Year award 2016.
Darren has been with Bond Bryan for more than 10 years working on residential, retail, commercial office, manufacturing and research projects. The most recent and highly publicised project Darren worked on was the outstanding Factory 2050.
On 7 July at the Mercure St Paul’s Hotel, Sheffield, Insider will host its South Yorkshire Property Gala Dinner and reveal the winners of the Property Personality of the Year and also the Property Deal of the Year. The annual dinner is now firmly established as a key event in the region.
For more information and to place your vote please click here.
The new Ongar Academy will be a Four Form Entry Secondary School accommodating 800 pupils (including 200 sixth form pupils) with approximately 50 teaching staff and 15 – 20 Administrative support. The academy building will provide 6,492 sq.m of new accommodation over two – three storeys.
The school will be a single new academy building on the Ongar Leisure Centre site. The masterplan will include the provision of parking, drop-off, play and sports provision across the site.
The development proposals seek to provide education and sports facilities for both the new academy and the local community working with the existing leisure centre to provide a combined offering.
These proposals have been developed for Ongar Academy by Bond Bryan Architects, in conjunction with the Contractor Kier Construction, Robert West – Highways Consultants, Vincent and Gorbing – Planning Consultants, Hoare Lea – M+E Engineers, Consibe – Civil and Structural Engineers and Bond Bryan Landscape Architects. The detailed design to construction will be developed with the Academy’s sponsors the Education Funding Agency and the staff and governors of The Ongar Academy Trust and their advisors.
Zubin Masters, Associate Director of Bond Bryan Architects explained: “Our designs for this site deliver a bespoke solution that has been developed in full consultation with the Academy and its governors, Local Authority and other stakeholders and built upon the foundations of an established landscape setting. It will provide an integrated campus within a single building that creates a strong sense of place.
The massing of the building and the design of the exterior facades of Ongar Academy aims to respond sensitively to its context minimising its visual impact. The architectural language and the palette of materials chosen for the Academy is one of simplicity and elegance. The predominantly brick facades with the render and timber panels create a timeless architecture, whilst the glazed elements break up the massiveness of the elevations and serve to blur the boundaries between internal and external spaces. The recessed main entrance is extensively glazed to create a sense of transparency and openness whilst showcasing the learning activities within.”
Flexibility in all teaching and learning spaces will be maximised to enable the Academy to respond to changing demands and forms of curriculum delivery. The way in which this will be achieved is by standardisation of the specification of services to allow the majority of rooms to accommodate most subject areas. This will involve the use of technology by the extensive provision of network access, interactive whiteboards and projectors. In addition simple framed structural solutions will be used, which mean that the internal walls will not have a structural function and can be moved without excessive disruption. The windows are modular and are set within the same size structural opening throughout the building. These structural openings are set within a rigidly enforced 7.2m structural grid. The size of the grid and window modules has been determined to ensure that any size classroom in the future will have adequate daylight and natural ventilation.
Integrated within the Academy building are new sports facilities, which comprise of a 3-court Sports Hall, Activity Studio and associated changing and administrative facilities for use by the Academy and the community outside of school hours during evenings and weekends.
Construction on site is planned to commence in Summer 2016 with a completion date in September 2017.
