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and redesign of the red-bricked Formal House, and the Honeybourne Place office building near the spa town’s Waitrose. Elsewhere in Gloucestershire there is Renishaw's £20 million Innovation Centre at its HQ site near Wotton-under-Edge and logistics firm CM Downton’s 100,000sqft distribution depot on the St. Modwen Properties Gateway 12 business park south of Gloucester. And that’s not to mention the doctors' surgeries, business parks, houses, offices, giant Trelleborg SS base on Tewkesbury Business Park and outside of the county buildings including the 400,000 sqft Adidas distribution building and 20,000 sqft of prestige headquarters offices at Trafford, Manchester. Or its involvement in the Wales National 50m Pool in Swansea, the on-going major redevelopment of the former BP Llandarcy Oil Refinery site on the edge of
theWelsh city, the innovative regeneration project that is Liberty House in the centre of Newport, or beautiful private housing projects like the one it completed in Jersey. And while we are at it, let us also throw in the Tewkesbury Community Hospital, Hinckley Leisure Centre, Newbury Racecourse – both the course-side buildings and its swish apartment block. “We take pitching for work very seriously. It can be a huge amount of work. Costs might be up to £20,000 to secure a project,” said Mr Roberts, who admits as serious as the process is, he enjoys delivering the pitch. Planning decisions may seem to take forever to outsiders, but an architect’s practice must assemble its project team and move fast, understanding what their client wants quickly,
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