“Nicola and the team at Lee Boyd have been crucial to us realising our ambition to create a more compassionate and trauma sensitive approach to care, justice and recovery for children who have experience the most awful things. Their level of care and attention to detail in this project have made sure that we have delivered all the technical specification required, alongside the most beautiful design. Children will be offered care and justice in a space which is child centred, promotes healing and a sense of safety. They took this project to their hearts, going the extra mile to create a truly special place and every child and family who has to attend the Bairns Hoose will benefit from their love and care. They were a delight to work with and felt like part of our team at Children 1st.”
Mary Glasgow CEO, Children 1st
“Lee Boyd Architects were engaged by Queen’s Cross Church Aberdeen to design and supervise a major redevelopment of our halls. Lee Boyd won the commission in a competition and worked closely with us to turn our vision in to a reality. We wished to make our building much more inviting to the community and we needed to provide a children’s nursery and a modern coffee house as well as bright and inviting meeting spaces.
The redevelopment had to be done in the context of a Grade One listed building and within the usual constraint of a very tight budget. As chair of the redevelopment steering group I am delighted to say that Lee Boyd listened to our objectives as a congregation and translated these to a first class and practical design within budget.
To achieve that Lee Boyd established an excellent relationship with the congregation and the successful contractor to deliver the £1.2m project within 2 per cent of the approved tender price.
I would thoroughly recommend them for their architectural flair, responsiveness, practicality and massive commitment and care which went way beyond a normal contractual relationship in pursuit of our vision.”
Alan Campbell, chair of Project Steering Group
“As a growing company we value the agile and innovative approach which Lee Boyd has consistently provided to our site development programme.
“Over many years and many different projects, the team at Lee Boyd have delivered first class service. The expertise of the team has allowed us to continue delivering our life saving medical devices to patients around the world while we expand our manufacturing facility.
“The most visible example of our expansion is our new atrium entrance which has exceeded our own expectations and provides a very tangible demonstration of our ambition to our Associates every day and any visitor to the facility.”
Robert Welsh, Global VP of Engineering & Operations at Terumo Aortic
“I would warmly commend Lee Boyd for the crucial role they have played in the transformation our building, and the creation of the St Martin’s Community Resource Centre. From our first meeting we sensed that they had grasped the vision and ethos that lay behind the project, and they have then sought to express and expand that architecturally. In our case, that particularly meant realising the importance of the threshold between the street and the building and they have found ways to enable the building to be more open to the community, and easy to navigate. Lee Boyd worked hard with us to incorporate the demands of both our many different users and our limited budget.
During the long process of design, fundraising, tender and build they communicated efficiently with us to ensure that we knew where we stood, and they project managed the building work itself in a way that gave us great confidence that the work would be completed to a high standard. We are delighted with our transformed building and have enjoyed the stunned reaction of people returning to the building and experiencing the transformation that has been wrought. It has sensitively brought the old and new together and given a tired Victorian church building a wonderful new lease of life.”
John Conway, Rector, St Martin of Tours Episcopal Church
“Congratulations on the new ECA café! It’s brilliant: looks hip, yet durable, clear, yet chic-but-not-too-chic – perfect for ECA. And it was packed this lunchtime, with chat going on amongst colleagues, students, visitors: it’s exactly what ECA needed.”
Tessa Giblin, Director of the Talbot Rice Gallery
“Lee Boyd did an excellent job of listening to what our priorities are as a church and then coming up with a design that made the most of the opportunities to refurbish the building we purchased in Shandwick Place.
The completed project has exceeded our expectations as a Christian community. The addition of a second staircase into a transformed basement has created multi-functional spaces and rooms to accommodate our different ministries.
The sympathetic pods added into the main room has enhanced our community life as people now stay for much longer after our formal meeting times are over. We were also helpfully guided through the choices of colour schemes and materials that have helped create an attractive and functional place for our church to meet in.”
Paul Rees, Lead Pastor of Charlotte Chapel
