RHWL is an acronym for Renton Howard Wood Levin.  Their web site says of their approach to architecture that, "RHWL is a versatile, multi-skilled practice that places a premium on originality of thought.  We believe that good design is an intelligent response to every challenge. The buildings we create — which range from sports stadia and theatres to residential developments and headquarters for blue chip clients — are distinctive and appropriate, unconstrained by aesthetic dogma or house style. Because before we work, we listen.

For more than forty years, we've used a style of team working that emphasizes the combination of solid experience with fresh thinking. And our offices in England and Germany are linked by a high-speed network that enables us to pool expertise from across the practice at a moment's notice.

All our work demonstrates our fundamental principles:
... design is rational, practical and thoughtfully detailed
... restoration work is exhaustively researched
... new construction is restrained and contemporary."

RHWL describe their Bridgewater Hall as follows, "Won in competition, this brand new 2,400 seat concert hall is a home for the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras. It attracts international performers, drawn by its excellent natural acoustic and its combination of scale and intimacy.  The hall is a free-standing structure built beside the Bridgewater Canal. Its prominent position has made it a new focus for Manchester's arts community."

RHWL describe the building as follows, "No.1 Hardman Boulevard is situated in the heart of Allied London Properties' new twenty-two acre Spinningfields development in Manchester's Central Business District. The ten storey office building offers large floorplates of around 4,000 sq m and has been fully pre-let to the Royal Bank of Scotland. ....The façades reflect the building's plan: high levels of transparency are used on northern façades, solar shading for those facing south, and solid walls of Jura limestone are used for the cores."