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Hollaway Studio designs ‘floating’ bike factory for Brompton

By 2022-02-28T11:43:00

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Source: Hollaway Studio

Kent wetlands HQ will be ‘a 21st-century Bournville’

Hollaway Studio has been appointed to create a new headquarters and factory for Brompton Bikes on a 100-acre wetlands site near Ashford in Kent.

The circular building will be positioned on stilts 2.2m above the flood plain which will be turned into a nature reserve open to the public.

Cyclists will be allowed in the nature reserve and also in the new building. No new parking spaces will be created, with staff encouraged to arrive by public transport or bike.

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