Friday, 20 May 2011 06:00
Stride Treglown has won two top regional awards at the British Council for Offices (BCO) Regional Awards ceremony, and is now through to the national awards ceremony in October.
The event held at the @-Bristol museum last night awarded Stride Treglown the Commercial Workplace Award for One Glass Wharf in Bristol, which was praised for making use of a river adjacent to the building for rejecting heat from the building cooling plant. They acknowledged that this modern, high quality building forms an excellent addition to an area of urban regeneration in Bristol.![]()
View One Glass Wharf on the BCO Awards website...
The winner of the Best Projects up to 2000m², Treglown Court in Cardiff by Stride Treglown, and now used as their own office, was rewarded for their delivery of a commercially viable, attractive, low carbon office environment which was credited with the highly respected BREEAM “Outstanding” rating. They will now move forward to the national awards on October 11th and be nominated for 'Best of the Best' awards.![]()
View Treglown Court on the BCO Awards website...
This week Stride Treglown also picked up an award at Michelmores Commercial Property Awards for the Project of the Year under £3 million for the Boswyns Drug Detox Centre in Cornwall.![]()
Alongside this success the practice has now moved up 2 places in the league table of the top 100 UK architects for the le ading publication Architects Journal, moving from number 15 to number 13.
Gareth Davies, director of Stride Treglown commented. "We're delighted to have this industry recognition for our schemes. We knew that they were all pretty special, but sustainability is very close to our heart and it was encouraging to see that the judges picked up on the importance of environmental design and commercial viability. Our awards, alongside our league table positioning, means that we continue to demonstrate that our whole team is fighting hard through testing times to show that we continue to raise the bar."