Architecture and interior design
Architecture that answers the brief and the site
Brightwell is an architecture practice working across residential, commercial and cultural projects. We design buildings that are worth the money spent on them and pleasant to occupy for decades.
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Projects
Selected projects
Residential, commercial and cultural work.
How we work
What working with us looks like
Four stages, and you will always know which one you are in.
01
Brief & feasibility
What you want, what the site allows and what it is likely to cost. Sometimes the answer is not to build.
02
Design & consent
Design development through to a planning submission, with pre-application engagement wherever it helps.
03
Technical design
Drawings and specification a contractor can price and build from, coordinated with the engineers.
04
On site
Tender, appointment, inspections and certification, through to handover and the defects period.
Awards
- RIBA Chartered Practice
- ARB registered
- Professional indemnity
- Passivhaus certified designer
- Published and exhibited
Services
How we work with clients
From first sketch to the last site visit.
Feasibility & site appraisal
What is possible here, and what it is likely to cost.
Planning applications
The design, the drawings and the case that goes with them.
Detailed design
The drawings a builder can actually build from.
Interior design
Inside the building, held to the same standard as outside it.
Contract administration
Someone on your side while the building goes up.
Heritage & listed buildings
Old buildings, changed carefully.
About us
About Brightwell
Brightwell is an architecture practice working across residential, commercial and cultural projects. We design buildings that are worth the money spent on them and pleasant to occupy for decades.
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- Private clients
- Developers
- Commercial occupiers
- Cultural organisations
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