Last night saw success for three of our projects in the Manchester Society of Architects Design Awards.

Our project at St Botolph’s Boston, creating café, retail and office space as contemporary individual structures within the church, was commended in the community category. In the conservation and reuse category we had a double win as the category was split to reflect the expertise a

Buttress Fuller Alsop Williams, architects for Galliford and Mears, are part of the S4B consortium announced as the preferred bidder for the £113M Brunswick PFI regeneration scheme in central Manchester.

The programme of new build and refurbishment will provide over 500 new homes, and refurbish 653, as well as new community facilities, an extra care unit and retail space.

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Puns aside, we are delighted that several of our `Bros` have been taking up the challenge once more to go razor-free for a month and raise money for Movember. It was fantastic to see so many joining in with their facial hair, but also some of the mo-challenged taking part by baking moustache-shaped cookies instead to raise extra pennies.

Our total count was a respectable £425, so than