Education

This landmark visitor centre for Britain’s largest protected wetland was designed for a sensitive site on the river Bure in The Broads National Park. The building’s spatial narrative begins with the river. From the footpath and adjacent moorings, the river approach from the west offers enticing views to striking but familiar gabled volumes. From the [...]

This bespoke nursery building in Shoeburyness replaces the previous Friar’s Nursery on a nearby site and forms the first phase of a larger development that also includes nine new family dwellings. The design comprises a single-storey nursery building facing onto Centurion Close and provides a series of high-quality indoor and outdoor teaching and play spaces [...]

Situated on a highly sensitive greenfield site at the edge of the village, this new-build school was designed to merge into the surrounding landscape, nestling into the slope to the north and sheltering discreetly behind a new earth bund to the south.  In keeping with a passive environmental approach, the school is oriented to maximise [...]

The brief to re-model, modernise and extend an existing school to provide generous, state-of-the-art teaching and support spaces for all years from Nursery through to Year 6, came with the extra challenge of undertaking the construction work whilst the existing school was actively operating.  The task was met with great poise, minimising disruption and ensuring [...]

This project comprises a new 2-form entry primary school, nursery and associated playgrounds on a greenfield site in Shoeburyness. Due to its location in a flood risk zone the school had to be raised on a podium deck, with car parking and covered play facilities positioned below.  The two storey building on top of the [...]