Broadway Malyan, an award-winning international practice of architects, urbanists and designers, continues to enlarge its already enviable portfolio. RLI speaks to Director, Stuart Rough, about the firm’s global expansion.
Broadway Malyan was founded in 1958 and the firm now has a network of 13 international offices throughout the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The firm’s geographical spread allows it to serve its clients with international standards of skill and experience, combined with proven local knowledge.
Stuart Rough, Director of Broadway Malyan said: “Architecture is the business’s core service, but it is multi-skilled and offers design solutions throughout the project lifecycle – drawing on the expertise of its specialists in urban design, masterplanning, town planning, landscaping, regeneration, sustainability and interior design.”
In January, Broadway Malyan extended its global reach by opening an office in Sao Paulo, as part of the firm’s international growth strategy. It established its first office in Latin America through connections nurtured by its Lisbon and Madrid-based teams and the new office will lead a series of major project wins – including a 600-key hotel.
The practice now earns just over half its fees outside of the UK and Europe and, as a result of its international strategy, in the last year, its Shanghai office has landed a series of large project wins and its Singapore-based operation doubled income. Broadway Malyan now reports live projects in a diverse number of new countries – including Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Turkey, Angola, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Mozambique.
Rough adds: “The practice remains true to its long-standing ethos of delivering buildings and places that meet the needs of clients, enhance the environment and are sustainable and rooted in their community.
“It is committed to unlocking value through great design and place making, has a genuine commitment to the task of making better cities and creating places which enrich people’s lives and believes that good design is about more than just aesthetics – it is about how buildings serve their purpose and the value to the client.
“The practice takes its responsibility to design with the future of others in mind seriously, and it is committed to considering the whole life and global perspective, as well as the local and site-wide issues. For each project it undertakes, it writes a statement of commitment and intent, in order to ensure sustainability factors are fully considered and best practice is upheld.”
Rough says Broadway Malyan is dedicated to the aim of positive sustainable development, both in its work as a multi-disciplinary design consultancy and in its own commercial activities. It does not consider sustainability as just another sector and a peripheral activity – rather, it is at the heart of everything that it does.
Broadway Malyan enjoys a long-standing track record in the retail sector, which it has always viewed as a core market and for which it has an enviable reputation in continental Europe. And, as part of the practice’s international growth strategy, it is actively bolstering its retail teams and expertise in emerging counties and markets.
Rough explains: “While a retail destination used to be a place where people bought things and a leisure development was for entertainment, today, the two are inextricably linked – and the practice believes that there has never been a better time to delight and excite consumers through good design.
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For the full article, please see the March 2011 issue.
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