Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings
by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Client Historic England
Awards 澳门王中王 West Midlands Award 2024, 澳门王中王 West Midlands Client of the Year 2024, 澳门王中王 West Midlands Project Architect of the Year 2024, 澳门王中王 West Midlands Conservation Award 2024, 澳门王中王 West Midlands Building of the Year 2024 (sponsored by ) and 澳门王中王 National Award 2024
The brief for this project called for an exemplar of sustainable refurbishment to support the next 100 years of use for a building with a particularly innovative design heritage.
Opened as a flaxmill in 1797, it was the world鈥檚 first iron-frame building and has been described as the 鈥榞randparent of skyscrapers鈥�. Its combination of cast iron beams and columns, brick arches, and cast iron ties made its construction fireproof, while large windows admitted natural light for its numerous employees. A century later, it was converted into a maltings through a second state-of-the-art design, with windows either blocked up or made smaller, boiler houses demolished, a timber hoist and new tower added, and a large kiln built.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios have conserved the enduring elements of both uses to provide four floors of flexible working space, while cleverly weaving in a contemporary layer to accommodate a visitor centre and caf茅.
Contractor Croft Building and Conservation
Structural Engineer AKT II
Civil Engineer AKT II
Project Management Historic England
Environmental / M&E Engineer E3 Consulting Engineers
Landscape Architect LT Studio
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Gleeds
Ecological Middlemarch Environmental
Catering Cooper 8
Acoustic Engineer ION Acoustics
Interpretation Mather & Co
Gross internal area in m虏 5,596
