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Latest News: Frome Extra Care
Planning consent has been received for this 36 flat extra care scheme for Flourish Homes. The scheme forms the first phase of Westbury Partnership’s £17m regeneration of the Randolph Road area in Frome, currently blighted by pre-cast concrete dwellings.
The new building is fitted onto a steeply sloping site with sunny 2 bedroom flats surrounding gardens on...Read the full story
Beeches Manor
Quattro, Willmott Dixon and Housing 21 have won the competition to provide a dementia care scheme for Wokingham Borough Council. The scheme provides two dementia clusters of 18 one bedroom flats and a further cluster of 18 one bedroom flats for adults with learning difficulties. There are shared home "hubs" with cooking, dining, living and activity spaces that provi...Read the full story
RNID CAMPUS
Quattro have been appointed by the RNID for the modernisation and extension of their Poolemead Campus in Bath. The work begins with a feasibility study and review of the RNID campus which is made up of several buildings; the review is expected to result in recommendations for a radical upgrade of the whole Poolemead site.
LLANISHEN EXTRA CARE
Llanishen Extra Care is now complete with Leadbitter handing over a clear two months ahead of the original completion date. Chris Jones was given the royal tour by Leadbitter's top man on site, Barrie Cowan, seen in the photo of the double height dining space with the fancy drop down tube lamps. Attention should be drawn to the main entrance thermal chimney with aut...Read the full story
PIT PONY
Quattro recently received planning approval for the Pit Pony Housing scheme in Easton, Bristol, the fifth scheme undertaken with Elim Housing Association. The scheme incorporates 14 2 bed flats with an additional 7 family houses on the site of yet another former pub. The design responds to significant site constraints including external noise sources, suds requireme...Read the full story
NATIONAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION PARK
Quattro and White Design delivered the Bristol Society of Architects "Insite/Onsite" lecture on Thursday November 19th as part of the BSA lecture series. This important and exciting project is led by Bristol Zoo and has recently been awarded planning approval. The lecture took place in Quattro's Conservation Education Centre at Bristol Zoo, acknowledged as one of Br...Read the full story
EXTRA CARE IN YATE
The turf cutting ceremony has taken place for Quattro's new 60 flat Extra Care scheme for Housing 21 located on Cambrian Drive, Yate. The ceremony was hosted by Leadbitter for Housing 21 and was attended by the Assistant Mayor of Yate, Housing 21, representatives of South Gloucestershire Council and school children from local primary schools. Cambrian Drive is not o...Read the full story
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR ASHTON GATE?
Quattro are teaming up with Acanthus Ferguson Mann to propose a sustainable development for the football stadium site at Ashton Gate. The football club are seeking to develop a new stadium and plans to fund this with a Tesco supermarket on the existing stadium site are stalling; Quattro's ideas of a sustainable, mixed use community are going down well and the initiat...Read the full story
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IN PRACTICE
Quattro celebrated twenty five years in practice in style with a lively summer garden party; the garden in question belonged to Practice Manager Jane Fenton whose husband, John, took responsibility for producing sumptuous barbequed delights for the massed gathering of staff and partners. Formalities were banned from the occasion; there was however an impressive cake...Read the full story
CITY LIVING 25 YEARS FROM NOW
A lively debate has taken place on the future of city living, in celebration of architects Quattro’s 25 years in practice. The discussions took place with an audience of 120 movers and shakers at Watershed Media Centre in Bristol and were chaired by well-known publisher Alistair Sawday. The panel featured: Helen Holland, former leader of Bristol City Council; entrepre...Read the full story
Quattro's Environmental Accreditation
Quattro's objective to achieve BS8555 environmental accreditation in May 2009 was successfully delivered on target. The practice has been working hard for over a year to put policies and procedures into place to reduce the environmental impact of our operations. A special emphasis has been placed on achieving higher standards of environmental response in all our des...Read the full story
Syniad Framework
Quattro are one of 7 practices to have been engaged by Syniad to deliver £120m of new building projects in Wales over the next 4 years. The schemes will be a mix of general needs and supported housing for elderly and disabled people.
Bristol Green Capital
Quattro's green credentials were set out in full by Hugh Nettelfield in front of over 100 invited guests to launch the Bristol Green Capital initiative. Our environmental endeavors were the subject of a "case study" describing a successful Bristol business and what it can do to respond to the environmental agenda. Bristol is the UK's greenest city and narrowly misse...Read the full story
Building Buys a Pint
Quattro were featured in Building Magazine in their 19th December issue. The very amusing article painted a picture of Director Hugh in a borrowed sailing vessel rescuing the Gloucester staff from the floods of summer 2007. The link below gives the full story.
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3130154
GREAT PLACE TO WORK; IT'S OFFICIAL
Quattro have made it onto Building Good Employer's Guide top 50.
WITHYWOOD AWARD
The Withywood Centre was confirmed as the winning community project at the RIBA Award Ceremony on Thursday 25th September after an exciting public vote where over 22,000 votes were counted; the Withywood Centre won an amazing 56% of the total vote.
HEALTH CENTRE COMMISSIONS
Quattro has helped health provider GPI to win the bid to construct two health centres in the Welsh valleys at Aberfan and Trgodyrhiw; our first task is to learn how to pronounce the site locations.
Design Advisor to PFI Housing
Quattro has been selected as Design Advisor for West Wiltshire District Council's PFI housing project. As advisor Quattro will be ensuring that good design is high on the agenda for selecting a PFI partner. Quattro will also prepare planning submission for a number of sites that will form part of the project.