Architecture

We are very conscious in the moment we design. Through decades of experience across many sectors, we have built a team of people who care about what they do and what our design work means to you, the place it is in, and the wider environment that it affects.

We undertake a broad range of design work across many sectors. A lot of our work has grown across these sectors through our ability to unpick difficult or constrained sites, often one-off projects quite unique in their requirements.

A little about our story

Live – Work – Play

We have never really been sector specific in the work we undertake.  However, since the practice’s inception in 1988 we have been passionate about how people live, and carry decades of experience of all scales of residential work and residential-led mixed-use schemes. It is no surprise that residential work formed a great deal of the early growth of our work.

As our residential projects grew into residential-led mixed-use larger projects, these led us to various other sectors which we continue to grow. From ‘live’ came ‘work’, with a particular interest in offices and co-working schemes.  This includes how people experience the transition in their daily routines from where they live to where they work and what that should bring for them.

Then, through these mixed-use schemes again, but also with our HQ based in Bath – a city heavily dependent on tourism – there was a natural expansion to projects involving how people ‘play’. So, our interests in the leisure and tourism sector grew naturally and at speed.  This led us to undertake hotel, spa, visitor attraction and museum work, due to our specialism of being able to deal with sensitive sites where these buildings are often located.

So at Nash Partnership, we focus on how you live, work and play. That’s not to say we don’t have experience of other building typologies, including science, health and education. But we are proud of the way our skills have grown over three decades of project work and where we add value, joy, and substance to our designs to date.

Within this, we have developed specialist teams that champion knowledge across the RIBA plan of work, so we are able to successfully deliver not just the design but a conscious one which can be built efficiently and to the important standards set. We don’t just design to regulations but also to Sustainable Development Goals that we must all play a part in taking seriously. This is across the public, private, and charitable client groups.

Of course, we cross over with our experienced placemaking team, our planning consultancy, and our conservation team as necessary to really get under the surface of your projects.

Communication and motivation

We like to talk. We like to work in teams. We embrace, manage, direct and inspire the many people and formats of communication a project needs to get the most out of it. We don’t sit behind an email address; we are involved and motivated.

“We take the briefing process very seriously and work with our clients to get to the essence of what they are trying to achieve. It means that when we put pencil to paper, it already has great purpose behind it.”

John Everett, Associate, Director of Bristol Design Studio

We offer:

  • An RIBA accredited practice
  • Architectural services through the RIBA plan of work
  • Lead consultant
  • Creative design
  • Combined heritage expertise
  • Sustainable Development Goal analysis (through our SGD toolkit)
  • Early-stage feasibility block planning and due-diligence checks
  • BIM Level 2
  • 3D modelling
  • 4D walk through technology (through goggles)
  • Post planning specialist ‘Design & Build’ construction stage services