Cannon Avent
Avent is the UK's leading manufacturer of baby feeding products and winner of the Queen's Awards for Innovation and Export. Our design seeks to underpin the ethos of the company, and project the company's approach to product design and reinforce its identity to international visitors. The first phase comprised a 120,000 ft' factory for Avent, and provides an extremely cost effective solution to their operational and business needs. On completion it housed the highest concentration of robotic manufacturing in the UK.
Realised for the cost of a simple shed, it has been recognised for architectural excellence and rural regeneration. Avent was the only purely industrial building among 50 buildings in the UK to win a 2000 RIBA Award for Architecture and was selected by Channel 4 to feature in the documentary 'Britain's Best Buildings.' It also won the Civic Trust Rural Workplace Award in 2001 and features in the Foreign Office's publication 'UK architecture: building the future.' A second phase warehouse and a tent-enclosed yard of a similar scale, for articulated trucks and trailers, has been designed to complete the redevelopment of the Suffolk site.
"The building is as good as we could ever have hoped. This must be the first time that the real thing looks even better than the initial visuals."
Edward Atkin, Managing Director
"We all felt that this good modern building should be given an award to demonstrate the kind of development which should be encouraged."
2000 RIBA Awards for Architecture
press:
Civic Trust Awards December 2001; Building Centre Trust Annual Review December 2001; Architects Journal March 2001; Building Design March 2001; RIBA Stirling Awards December 2000; Eastern Region Architecture Millennium Handbook December 2000; CABE December 2000; Cannon Avent award December 2000; Light September 2000; RIBA Journal July 2000; more » Building Design June 2000; Architects Journal June 2000;