Nightingale now UK's sixth largest architectural practice
02 April 2004
Nightingale Associates has risen to sixth place in a survey of architectural practices in the UK.
The firm, which ranked ninth last year, is the country's fastest riser by number of qualified architects: it currently employs 204 staff and plans to take on a further 27 architects this year.
“We are responding to the growing healthcare, education and science markets, firstly by pushing design boundaries, such as our work on Sense Sensitive Design and secondly, by planned regionalisation aimed at achieving comprehensive local cover all over the UK”
Mike Nightingale, Chairman, Nightingale Associates
Nightingale Associates bought Studio Baad - a Yorkshire-based healthcare operation last April, to increase its presence in the north of England. It now has offices in Harwell, London, Brighton, Cardiff and Rochdale, with a new office opening in Exeter in June.
It also one of the highest employers of women in the profession, with 36% of its architects female, including three directors and one executive director. The firm is once again the largest in the Midlands, a position it has held for several years.
The firm's recent PFI projects include the West Middlesex Hospital and Coventry New Hospitals. It has also won a major new PFI mental health project for Birmingham and is due to complete five new medical schools in the next six months.
In Oxford, the Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice, opened last year, won an Award from the Oxford Preservation Society.
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