A new £6 million residential and commercial mix development in the heart of the West End. Completed in January 2010, the Squire and Partner designed scheme replaces several houses built on the typically narrow Soho plot.

The scheme uses a series of brick party walls to suggest a similar series of narrow plots but here ordered [...]

Work continues at Stratford’s RSC theatre with the latest additions to the multi million transformation arriving on specialist haulage with the assistance of three individual County Highways Authorities.
The two massive Precast panels produced by Thorpe Precast, each weighing 17 tonnes were finally craned into position on North & South face of the viewing towers ‘lantern’ on [...]

 
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre transformation reached an important milestone this week when the 20 tonne viewing platform was lowered into position using a 300 tonne crane. Click below to visit the RSC main site and view a short film showing the historic event. 
View film

Coleford has begun the huge task of delivering bespoke handmade bricks and specials for the grade II listed Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon.
 
English Heritage have praised the architects Bennetts Associates for creating a modern design without ruining the existing historic features. Originally designed by Elisabeth Scott and opened in 1932 the new £100 [...]

61million redevelopment to lift the already inspiring Ashmolean Museum to a world-class building.

Designed by world renowned architect Rick Mather the new building will totally replace all but the original 1845 grade II listed Cockerell building. The new development will provide a further 39 galleries doubling the display space of the former buildings. Also included in [...]

To strengthen Coleford’s commitment to environmental management and to enure our compliance with ever changing environmental legislation we are entering into the first steps of joining the Green Dragon Scheme.
 
 
Green Dragon is a manageable way of achieving a recognised UKAS Accredited and Independently inspected Environmental Management System (EMS).

The scheme incorporates the following key principles of [...]

If you needed another reason to choose brick as your primary building material – here’s three.

A+ Green Guide rating.


The BRE’s latest Green Guide to specification assigned the highest possible accreditation A+ to every external wall it rated that contained brickwork. The scoring runs from A+, the best (or having the least environmental impact), down to [...]

A new court at Clare College Cambridge by Van Heyningen and Haward Architects has won an RIBA Award.
 
The new 6.3 million courtyard completed in early 2009 has fought off stiff competition to win the prestigious award. A combination of Coleford Grey handmade bricks (70% Vauxhall Grey and 30% Gloucester Grey blend), and Cedar timber cladding, [...]

Business as usual at the NEC, another busy five days for our third visit to the Interbuild show.
 
 
Coleford’s third visit to the interbuild show at the NEC took place over the 26th to 30th Oct 2008. Over 32,000 visitors packed the NEC over the 5 days easing fears that the current reduction in construction activity [...]

A new Studio Annexe development in the North Oxford Conservation area has been awarded an Oxford Preservation Trust Plaque for its outstanding contribution to Oxfords built environment.
 
The Annexe was built to provide a garage and additional living space to the main accommodation. Using the Arts & Crafts design of the main house for inspiration the [...]