Last updated 8th June 2022
Broadway Malyan
Formed in 1958, Broadway Malyan is a global architecture, urbanism and design practice which works across a wide range of sectors but has a specialism in tall building design, urban planning and master-planning. With an hq in London, Broadway Malyan employs around 400 staff across its 12 studios in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.
In the 2021 AJ 100 league table, Broadway Malyan ranks as the 40th largest UK architects” practice and it also has a significant international practice. It had total fees of £23.4 million of which £11.5 million was on work delivered in the UK and and it employed 52 UK architects out of total staff of 127.
Broadway Malyan”s UK offices are in London, Birmingham and Manchester and overseas, the firm has studios in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jakarta, Lisbon, Madrid, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore and Warsaw.
Broadway Malyan has been responsible for some major landmark UK buildings including The Tower, One St. George Wharf in London, Mann Island on Liverpool’s waterfront and the BP campus at Sunbury. It designed the £7 million Wolfson Building for the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
The group – which is 60% owned by an employee ownership trust – was inevitably hit-hard by the pandemic but has continued to restructure its UK business and take action to control costs.
In its latest annual report in early 2022, the directors pointed to a major upturn in its fortunes in the Far East and said the firm was seeing ‘slow but sure progress’ on market recovery in the rest of the world. The firm believes it is very well-place to take advantage of global opportunities as the market improves.
Financials
To view the financials for Broadway Malyan Holdings Ltd., the group’s parent company, visit Companies House and use Company ID 05418411.
Profitability at Broadway Malyan remained under severe pressure in the year to April 2021, reflecting a steep downturn in the market and the impact of Covid. Turnover fell by 33% to £32.51 million from £48.45 million previously and gross profits fell to £9.7 million from £14.12 million previously whilst the group reported a pre-tax loss of £2.06 million compared to a profit of £20,000 previously. However, the firm retained cash balances of £1.12 million, compared with £369,000 previously.
Operations
Broadway Malyan works across the mixed-use, residential, workplace, retail, healthcare and hospitality sectors, both in the UK and overseas.
In spring 2022, Broadway Malyan and developer Weston Homes submitted new proposals for a redevelopment of a key city centre site in Norwich, Anglia Square, which will involve up to 1,100 new homes and 8,000 sq m of flexible retail and business space.
Meanwhile in Birmingham in spring 2022, Broadway Malyan launched a ‘green masterplan’ for the city which it developed with business improvement districts and which takes a strategic approach to issues such as improved air quality and engaging streetscapes.
Elsewhere, in autumn 2021 plans were brought forward by Broadway Malyan with Commercial Estates Group for Dunton Hills Garden Village, a scheme of more than 3,000 homes near Brentwood in Essex. It ranks as one of the practice’s largest UK masterplanning applications and involves some 225 ha of land.
Overseas, Broadway Malyan designed a new landmark business campus for developer Bagmane Group – Bagmane Rio in Bengaluru in India – where construction was topped out in early summer 2022 for a leading tech company. The 12-storey scheme has some of the largest single floorplates in India, with space for more than 7,000 staff.
Glenigan data
Figures from Glenigan show Broadway Malyan has a varied workload in home market. The firm is the architect on City Reach Phase 1 in Leeds, an £18.9 million scheme of some 205 flats, student accommodation and commercial space where work is due to start in summer 2022 and run for 48 months (Project ID: 22135872). Glenigan data also shows that Broadway Malyan is the architect on the Royal Albert Farm Development in Lancaster, a £5.2 million scheme of 54 houses and 18 flats for client Oakmere Homes, where work is due to start in late summer 2022 and run for 13 months (Project ID: 15201070).
Conclusion: Taking advantage recovery at home and overseas
Although Broadway Maylan has faced some tough times in its home market, it still appears to have a healthy and varied UK workload including some landmark projects, notably in Birmingham and Norwich. Having established a strong record in overseas market in recent years, particularly in the Far East and Middle East, the group has prospered in the buoyant market for luxury developments. With good links across key markets such as South East Asia and India and in Europe, the group should be able to maintain its momentum as uncertain times persist in the UK.
Winning work with Broadway Malyan
Contact details for each of Broadway Malyan’s offices around the world, including the name of the initial contact, email and phone number, are available here. Key contacts in the group’s head office in London are:
Ian Apsley, Group Managing Director/Head of Urban Living
020 7261 4200
James Rayner, leads Broadway Malyan’s Urbanism & Place Strategy team, based in London.
020 7261 4200