Since it was founded in 1993 Truro College have maintained a continuous relationship with Poynton Bradbury Wynter Cole Architects, with commissions ranging from whole campus masterplanning and new buildings to internal adaptions, alterations and ongoing maintenance projects.
Following the design of a number of significant projects at the college PBWC Architects were appointed for the masterplanning, design and delivery of a major new masterplan for the FE and HE campus in Truro, Cornwall.
The most recent masterplan for the site expands the campus to the West of the original Mylor Building. This new site includes HE and FE teaching facilities, a range of specialist sports and performance spaces as well as the recently constructed Valency Building, a space technology, digital and engineering centre.
Key buildings on the campus designed by PBWC Architects include:
- Kenwyn, General Teaching, IT, Media and Learning Resource Centre (LRC), 2000
- Helford, Performing Arts Building, 2002
- Allen, Reception & Administration, 2003
- Fal, Higher Education, 2006
- Lynher, FE Sports, 2006
- Gannel, Cornwall Cricket Centre, 2009
- Seaton, Automotive, Construction and Engineering, 2012
- White, Centre for Art and Design, 2012
- Valency, South West Institute of Technology, 2021
The college has grown from a single building and a few hundred students to an Ofsted Outstanding college with a national reputation for excellence catering for 14,000 full and part-time students across Cornwall.
