10 December, 2009
Broadway Malyan is proud to support CRASH’s 2009 No Christmas Card Appeal. CRASH, the construction and property industries’ charity for homeless people, has so far raised £61,994.
CRASH addresses the issues of homelessness by harnessing the skills, products and goodwill of the building industry to improve hostels, day centres, night shelters, training centres and move-on accommodation, for frontline homelessness agencies who work directly with homeless people.
04 December, 2009
Broadway Malyan celebrated the launch of its landmark £66 million Bournville College scheme last night with VIPs from across the country descending on Birmingham for an event at the International Convention Centre.
The event, organised by Bournville College, allowed attendees to get a sneak preview of plans for the new college and how it aims to act as a catalyst for the £1 billion regeneration of Longbridge.
The college, which has just broken ground on the ex-MG Rover site, is set to become the ‘Learning Quarter’ of the mixed use regeneration programme. The new campus will span 4.2 acres, offering a new learning resource centre, business school, construction workshop and leisure and sport facilities to 15,000 students. Salim Hussain, Lead Architect on the project, said: “The new building represents a significant contribution to the regeneration of Longbridge through its striking design, as well as providing an inspirational and practical learning environment for staff and learners. We look forward to working with all parties to ensure the successful delivery of this major project.”
With support from Advantage West Midlands, the Learning and Skills Council and Birmingham City Council, the new campus is set to open its doors in September 2011, bringing together Bournville’s current 3 campuses under one roof.
The new build is one of 13 colleges that were chosen following a robust and thorough assessment in the review of the FE Capital building programme by the LSC and Sir Andrew Foster.
View Bournville College’s promotional video
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23 November, 2009
Broadway Malyan has scooped two prizes at the 2009 What House Awards held last week in London. Imperial Wharf won the Gold Award for Best Landscape Design, with Beaufort Park, also for developer St George, winning the Silver Award in the same category.
At Imperial Park, the judges were particularly impressed by “the ability of the design to provide a welcoming and attractive landscape appropriate to the scale of the buildings and yet a small scale landscape conducive to sitting and relaxing amongst attractive and inspirational planting and yet on such a large scheme.”
Although not completed, the judge’s awarded the Beaufort Park scheme the Silver Medal, “recognising the standard of design and quality of materials used and implemented to date.”
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16 November, 2009
Broadway Malyan’s Rendezvous and Treetops at the White Lodge Centre has won the Judge’s Special Prize at the prestigious NHS Building Better Healthcare Awards 2009.
Broadway Malyan has worked with the White Lodge Centre, a charity supporting disabled children and adults in Chertsey, Surrey, for more than three decades. An increase in demand for its services in recent years led to the development of a number of new facilities, including Treetops, a new-build children’s respite centre, and Rendezvous, a new adult resource facility.
Both buildings are single storey and have large, dramatic sweeping roofs which channel light into airy circulation spaces and key rooms. The buildings use coloured insulated render while at Treetops the southern elevation is clad with untreated larch complementing the woodland setting beyond and meeting the brief of ‘a cabin in the woods’. Both buildings have utilised a high level of internal finishes to make the buildings welcoming and non-institutional. Developed to create an exemplar for future facilities, staff and patients were involved in the design from the start and both buildings have a number of sustainable features to cut down on running costs for the charity. The last two buildings complete the suite of buildings for the White Lodge Centre delivering a range of services to a broad spectrum of disabled adults and children in a non-institutional setting within a green belt landscape.
Broadway Malyan’s Woodhaven scheme won the Best Designed Mental Health prize at the same awards in 2004.
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28 October, 2009
Broadway Malyan’s 30 Pall Mall scheme in Liverpool has received detailed planning permission, being praised by planners for its “high quality architecture and modern design”.
The £70m scheme, located in the heart of the city’s business district, will open up thousands of jobs in Liverpool, providing 22,000m² of new grade A office space, in what is the city centre’s biggest ever single commercial office development.
The design comprises two separate buildings, one of 8 storeys, the other of 9, with an 18 storey tower, all clad in a three dimensional textured façade. These buildings are linked by a glazed public courtyard, with the development including active ground floor uses such as cafes, restaurants and shops that will spill into this central space. The scheme will achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ energy efficiency rating, with the design utilising natural ventilation through its perforated metal façade and maximising natural light penetration to reduce energy use as much as possible.
The scheme will kick-start the expansion of the area, acting as a catalyst for the regeneration of Pownall Square.
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