Firm also setting up a new structural engineering division

Multi-disciplinary architecture firm Woods Hardwick has made two new architectural hires including poaching senior architect Peter Prescott from Pollard Thomas Edwards.

Woods Hardwick. L-r: Matt Ford, Simon Bennett, Peter Prescott, Nicole Portieri

Woods Hardwick. L-r: Matt Ford, Simon Bennett, Peter Prescott, Nicole Portieri

The Bedford-based practice has also nabbed architect Nicole Portieri from Space4Architecture in New York to head up its commercial architecture division.

Prescott is to head up the Bedford-based firm’s residential design and delivery team

Woods Hardwick is also in the throes of setting up a new structural engineering division, which will be headed up by director Simon Bennett who joined the company in May.

Calum Wilson, director at Woods Hardwick, said: “We’ve made the decision to significantly invest in our future and on increasing our design focus.

 “We were getting more and more design-led work and so we needed to be able to service that demand.”