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CAD Architects Ltd announced as Official Architecture and Planning Partner of Cornish Pirates

Sep 21, 2026

Ambition with Design: CAD Architects partners with the Cornish Pirates

CAD Architects are delighted to announce a new partnership with the Cornish Pirates, becoming the club’s Official Architecture and Planning Partner.

Our new signage now takes its place alongside CAD Heritage and CAD Planning on the prominent crowd-facing hoardings of the Tribute Stand, putting all three areas of our business proudly into view as the rebuilt grandstand reopened on Sunday for the Pirates’ first league game of the new season.

Read the full partnership announcement on the Cornish Pirates website. click here

So why the Pirates?

For us, it starts with ambition.

Ambition is positive energy. It encourages people and organisations to look beyond where they are today, to how they can evolve, become stronger and where they might need or want to be in the future. Combined with vision, that energy can create momentum, with each step of the journey delivering benefits while contributing towards the ultimate goal.

Sunday’s season opener versus Doncaster arrived at an exciting time for the Cornish Pirates, with continuing ambition for success on the pitch combined with a vision for how to achieve and sustain it at the highest level, whilst retaining the spirit of the county it represents.

Developing local rugby talent, building commercial partnerships and creating new initiatives all form part of that vision. But what the Pirates stand for matters too. A strong sense of identity and purpose gives people something to connect with, encouraging supporters, players, partners and the wider community to invest their own energy in the club and become part of its journey.

CAD Architects team at the rugby ground

The launch of the Cornish Pirates Foundation demonstrates an awareness that the benefits of that energy and success can reach much further, sharing the benefits of progress with the wider community and strengthening the connections that help drive the club forward.

The Pirates’ approach, and the strong sense of identity and community that underpins it, resonate strongly with us.

Good design is about much more than achieving an immediate outcome. It combines skill, vision and judgement to understand what people value, what they need now and what they might need in the future, then uses that understanding to maximise the benefits delivered at every stage.

Architecture generally starts with a client objective, but before designing anything we take the time to get to the very heart of why the project, and its success, matters to them. From there, we can begin to shape not only the outcome, but the steps needed to achieve it. Phased projects take this thinking further, with each stage designed to deliver what is needed today while contributing towards a bigger vision for tomorrow.

We are proud to stand alongside the Cornish Pirates as they turn their ambition and vision into progress.

Read the full partnership announcement on the Cornish Pirates website. click here

CAD Architects at the rugby ground

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