Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Background

The company was formed in 1978 by architects Richard Feilden (1950–2005) and Peter Clegg, operating from small premises in Bath, Somerset. The company designed and constructed low-energy houses. Over the next two decades the company won awards for a number of school design projects and gained "a formidable reputation in the education sector". With over 100 staff the firm developed an "unusually democratic" way of operating.

Feilden was accidentally killed by a falling tree in 2005 and the practice continued under Peter Clegg and senior partner Keith Bradley.

In 2008 the practice won the RIBA Stirling Prize, with fellow designers Alison Brooks Architects and Macreanor Lavington, for their Cambridge high-density housing development, Accordia. Bradley picked up a cheque for £20,000.

Peter Clegg is part of the steering group who launched the Architects Declare initiative in 2019, to address the construction industry’s impact on the climate crisis and biodiversity loss.

Peter Clegg was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in the 2025 New Year Honours.

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios currently has offices in Bath, London and Manchester and works across a wide range of sectors including Education, Housing and Urban Design, and has expertise in heritage, retrofit and low carbon architecture.

Notable projects

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Residential

Accordia housing scheme, Cambridge.

Kirkstall Forge Housing

New Mildmay, hospital, housing and church, Hackney

Broadcasting Tower, Leeds, a student housing complex at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Aston University Lakeside complex.

123 Cheyne Walk, London

Higher Education

Manchester School of Art

University of Roehampton Library

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School

University of Warwick Faculty of Arts

University of Toronto Myhal Centre for Engineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MCEIE)

Ulster University, Belfast City Campus

Schools

The Charter School East Dulwich, London

Art and Design Building, Bedales School, Steep, Hampshire.

Plymouth School of Creative Arts

Aga Khan Academy, Dhaka

Tudor Grange Academy, Worcester

Highfield Humanities College

St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Gloucestershire

Drapers' Academy, Harold Wood, Havering

St Mary Magdalene Academy, Islington, London

Arts and Culture

Alexandra Palace East Court and Theatre

Southbank Centre: Refurbishment and Renewal of Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Leventis Art Gallery

Chedworth Roman Villa

Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire.

Derby QUAD.

Persistence Works, Yorkshire ArtSpace.

Healthcare

St Mary's Hospital Outpatients Building

Dyson Centre for NeoNatal Care (NICU), Royal United Hospital Bath

Public and Community

Stanbrook Abbey, new abbey buildings in North Yorkshire, given a RIBA National Award in 2016.

The Hive, Worcester, housing the Worcestershire County Council public library and the University of Worcester's academic library.

Workplace

Heelis, National Trust Headquarters

Spreehalle, Berlin

Woodland Trust Headquarters

Neal’s Yard Headquarters

Runnymede Civic Centre

Greenpeace Headquarters

Middleport Pottery

Urban Design and Masterplanning

Circle Square, Manchester

Southbank Leeds

University of Sheffield Masterplan

South Kilburn Estate Regeneration

Awards

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was awarded the 2008 RIBA Stirling Prize for Accordia in Cambridge (with Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington). In 2014 the practice was again shortlisted for the prize, this time for their work on Manchester School of Art.

In 2015 the practice was revealed as the top RIBA Award-winning practice of the past 10 years and overall has been awarded 37 RIBA Awards, four RIBA Sustainability Awards, and 22 Civic Trust Awards. It has been awarded the International Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Award for Broadcasting Tower in Leeds, as well as having been recognised by World Architecture Festival, Building Design Architect of the Year, the Wood Awards, SCONUL Library Design Awards, the AJ100 Awards and the Building/UK Green Building Council Sustainability Awards, amongst others.

Richard Feilden Foundation

The Richard Feilden Foundation was set up in memory of Richard Feilden in 2005.

The charity’s mission is to support sustainable architecture and education projects in Africa, promoting community involvement and the use of African expertise and technologies. The charity uses the skills and knowledge of the practice to work with like-minded organisations. Projects include an HIV Training Clinic in Mzuzu Malawi, Rubengera Technical Secondary School in Rwanda and a number of schools in Uganda.

References

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