HPW Project Series - Blooms of Bressingham

Apr 20
1 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

HPW’s Architectural Designer Huw Jones discusses one of his favourite HPW projects.

“The award winning flagship garden centre, Blooms of Bressingham (now renamed Bressingham Garden Centre) is one of my favourites in HPW’s portfolio.

The 25,000 sqft (2,300 m²) garden centre also serves as a gateway to the world-renowned 12-acre botanical gardens, as well as the Bressingham Steam Museum. It houses not only a flexible retail space unconstrained by columns and structure, but also a high-quality food service offering."

"Throughout, the high-tech tensile roof creates a bright and warm atmosphere that’s both pleasant for visitors, but also great for the plants on sale indoors. It also leads to this photo, which I love, of a beautiful space that seamlessly integrates the building’s unique form and structural materials into aesthetic design choices, creating such a warm, inviting, and open space at the heart of the building."

"The tensile structure also keeps the building ‘low-impact’ or a ‘light-touch’ on the environment, reducing the need for extensive groundworks and foundations, and reducing embodied carbon compared to more traditional construction options.”