Featured Architects:

3 Barnsbury Square London N1 1JL (Website)
Telephone +44 (0)20 7619 1670. Fax +44 (0)20 7619 1671.

We design primary and secondary schools and FE colleges. Our schools have won numerous awards, but more importantly they seem to be appreciated by the people who use them. We try to respond to the educational aims and priorities of each of our clients in the context of each particular site. The result is a unique design for each school.

“The school is spacious and dramatic and it makes us feel special” – Year 8 pupil

We bring useful experience and understanding to each project. Our aim is to produce excellent conditions for teaching and learning while minimising demands on the environment. With the entire team – client, designers and constructors – we take a holistic approach towards sustainability. We have long been in the forefront of low energy design, maximising passive means of environmental control and the use of natural light.

We design whole new schools, additions to existing buildings and new uses for old ones. The list of projects below includes SEN as well as mainstream schools and private as well as public sector ones (* indicates those which have won awards). Our website www.nicholashare.co.uk illustrates all of these projects.

Awards

Our most recent award is the 2010 BCSE award for Best School Extension, Refurbishment or Remodel, for Coleridge Primary School. In 2009 we were named Best School Architect at the BCSE awards (British Council for School Environments).  We also won ‘Best Design for a New School’ at the Excellence in BSF Awards (for Park Hall School in Solihull), and the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award (for Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College in Birmingham).

Primary schools

• Chafford Hundred Campus, Thurrock (integrates nursery, primary, secondary, sixth form and adult education)*
• Coldfall Primary School, Haringey (extension/remodel)
• Coleridge Primary School, Haringey (extension/remodel)*
• Golden Lane Campus, Islington (integrates a primary school, a SEN school and children’s centre)*
• Parkside and Meadows School, Bromsgrove (first & middle schools)
• Sidemoor First School, Bromsgrove
• Woodlands School, Harrow (SEN)

Secondary schools (public sector)

• Alexandra Park School, Haringey (extension/remodel)*
• All Saints Academy, Cheltenham
• Bristol Cathedral Choir Academy, Bristol City Council
• Castle View School, Essex
• Chafford Hundred Campus, Thurrock (through school)*
• Cornelius Vermuyden School and Art College, Essex
• Crown Woods School, Greenwich
• Dormers Wells High School, Ealing
• East Blackburn Learning Community, Lancashire
• Haybridge High School, Hagley, Worcestershire (extension/remodel)
• Ifield Community College, West Sussex
• Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College, Birmingham*
• Kettering Buccleuch Academy, Northamptonshire
• Kettering Science Academy, Northamptonshire
• Kingsley High School, Harrow (SEN)
• Lees Brook Community Sports College, Derby
• Noel-Baker Community School, Derby (with co-located SEN)
• North Birmingham Academy, West Midlands
• North Bromsgrove High School, Worcestershire
• Ormiston Academy, Birmingham
• Park Hall School, Solihull*
• Thomas Bennett Community College, West Sussex (including new theatre)

_Space (website)
We work together designing, building and operating buildings with a single purpose of making life better for people. We have brought together disciplines and sectors which traditionally have worked separately and often against each other. From architecture to environment, interiors to management we are integrated in all we do.

3D Reid (website)
Award winning 3DReid has designed over 100 schools within primary, secondary and higher education. Experienced in a range of procurement types, from PPP, BSF and PCP and act on behalf of Authorities, Funders and Contractors, we are joined by Blue Forest, promoting our latest innovation, the Urban Treehouse eco-classroom.

Aedas (website)
The Aedas global network provides consultancy services in architecture, interior design, masterplanning, landscape, urban design and building consultancy in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas.

AHMM (website)

A:kitekts (website)

Anshen & Allen (website)
Anshen+Allen specialises in the design of schools, universities and hospitals. Our focus on educational buildings enables us to be creative in the design of places that contribute to community, culture and social progress. Every project is unique: we employ an inclusive design approach to capture the aspirations and vision of client, school and stakeholder alike.

Archial Group (website)

Architecture plb (website)

Broadway Malyan (website)
Broadway Malyan’s education architects combine a broad range of experience of current school building programmes with a passion and design flair to deliver excellent schools. Working together, we apply skill, care and understanding to satisfy the needs and aspirations of learners, staff and the community.

Contact: Aidan Ridyard – Director
Broadway Malyan
Interchange Place
151-165 Edmund Street
Birmingham
B3 2TA
Tel: +44 (0)121 236 2030

Colour Urban Design (website)

Cundall (website)
Cundall has over 25 years’ experience in the design of educational buildings, from primary schools, colleges and universities, local authority and PFI projects to city academies. As multi-disciplinary engineers, we design low-energy, sustainable buildings that minimise the impact on the environment and are an enjoyable place to work and learn.

Curl la Tourelle Architects (website)

DLA Architecture (website)

Ellis Williams (website)
EllisWilliams specialises in strategic and creative solutions in the Education sector. We are one of the largest architectural practices in the UK focussing on education with more than 100 staff with offices in Warrington, London and Berlin. Our projects are award winning, educationally excellent, and feature attention to detail.

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (website)
Founded in 1978 and with offices in Bath and London, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is a substantial practice with an international reputation for design quality, environmental expertise and architectural innovation. Our work covers a wide range of typologies from universities and schools through to masterplanning and urban design. Our approach was recognised with the 2008 RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, presented to Accordia, a scheme which is widely regarded as setting a new benchmark for large scale housing in the UK.

Contact details: Fliss Childs:  fliss.childs@fcbstudios.com

Gensler (website)

Greenhill Jenner (website)

HKS (website)
HKS is an international architectural practice working from 24 offices around the world. Our London office operates across five sectors: Education, Healthcare, Commercial (including Interiors), Hospitality and Sports. Our education team focuses on delivering buildings of the highest design quality, enhanced by our team of education interior specialists. Our sectors regularly cross pollinate to inform the initial concept; enabling our design responses to realise and translate the Educational Vision of the local authorities. Current projects include the delivery of five schools for Kent BSF and three schools for Hull BSF, of which HKS Architects were Sample Scheme designers

Contact: Alfonso Padro
HKS Architects Limited
7 Soho Square
W1D 3QB
+44 207 292 9494

HLM Architects (website)

HOK (website)

Hunter & Partners (website)

Jestico & Whiles (website)
Jestico + Whiles is an award-winning architectural and interior design practice with a reputation for both its quality and breadth of work. The practice operates from offices in London and Prague where it employs a team of around 80 people. In recent years it has become recognised as one of the UK’s best architectural employers, highlighting its commitment to people and their development.

Having built a reputation working with over 50 schools and campuses since the 1990s, the practice now has a dedicated Education Studio of over 40 architects designing and building schools and Academies. The Studio has completed designs for 30 secondary schools, 13 of which are Academies.

Contact: Jude Harris, Associate Director
jude.harris@jesticowhiles.com
020 7380 0382

Lee Evans Partnership (website)
Founded in 1972 Lee Evans Partnership is one of the leading architectural practices in the South East and has been listed as one of the UK’s Top 100 Architects for three years running. The award winning Practice has specialised in designing educational buildings for over 30 years and has a reputation for creating inspiring yet functional buildings. Our work includes both public and private sectors, ranging from pre-school, to primary, to secondary through to further education, as well as campus masterplanning.

Contact details: Matt Hayes: matt.hayes@lee-evans.co.uk

Nicholas Hare Architects (website)
Nicholas Hare Architects was started in 1977 and reformed as a limited liability partnership in 2004.

At present we are over 60 people, handling a wide range of projects. The practice continues to grow organically and is organized in open studios in Islington, North London.

Teams are formed for each project and each team has a designated project leader. Our aim is to give an excellent service to our clients and to achieve results of which we can all be proud. To manage this, professional teamwork is essential. We believe that this embraces the client and contractors as well as the designers.

Contact Mona Heier Tel: 0207 619 1670, Email: m.heier@nicholashare.co.uk

Nightingale Associates (website)
Nightingale Associates is an award-winning architectural practice and trusted provider to the education sector. Refurbishment or new build, we take a holistic approach to creating environments that are safe, engaging and a focal point for the community. Our designs remain progressive and innovative to respond to the challenges faced by the learner and the teacher. We achieve this through playing a leading role in the research and development of new initiatives that will positively influence the design of academic buildings now and the future.

Contact: Katie Endicott, Marketing and Information Manager
Email: Katie.endicott@nightingaleassociates.com
Phone: 01273 560920

NVB Architects (website)

Penoyre & Prasad (website)
Penoyre and Prasad is one of the UK’s leading practices in innovative education design.

Winner of the 2008 BD Education Architect of the Year and the 2009 RIBA Sorrell Foundation Schools Award, Penoyre & Prasad believes this dynamic sector offers real opportunities for architects to help shape current thinking in best practice and propose future models and environments for evolving educational methods.

The practice works within budgets to design schools that excite and inspire, are sustainable and have a civic importance befitting the place of education facilities in the heart of our communities. Its designs are rooted in a deeply consultative process to ensure real success and lasting value.

Contact:
Noam Raz
n.raz@penoyreprasad.com
0207 250 3477

Roberts Limbrick (website)
Roberts Limbrick operate across Pre School, Primary, Secondary, Higher and Further Education sectors. Our collaborative approach to design and belief in putting the end user at the heart of all of our projects helps us to deliver creative and innovative spaces that inspire and engage all who use them.

Ryder (website)
Ryder Architecture is dedicated to providing high levels of design and service quality and operates across the UK.

We have an education portfolio ranging from primary to higher education and participate extensively in directly funded, LSC funded, Department For Education and Skills funded and privately financed (PFI) projects.

Our design approach supports the creation of vibrant places that incorporate learning and community activities as well as serving business and regeneration aspirations.

Ryder also offer a range of specialist services to support and inform the design process including environmental design, urban design, visualisation and media, and research and post occupancy evaluation

Contact: CHewitt@ryderarchitecture.com

Scott Brownrigg (website)

Sheppard Robson (website)

Stride Treglown (website)
Stride Treglown is an award winning, international practice of architects, with offices throughout the UK and Abu Dhabi. We have over 280 members of staff and are considered to be a ‘Top 20’ practice, with a reputation for delivering expert, innovative and sustainable design. We have a dedicated team of architects who specialise in designing and refurbishing primary and secondary schools, ensuring that each scheme is accessible, sustainable and exceeds the expectations of both our clients and their students.

For more information please contact:
David Hunter, Director, Education
T: 0117 9743271
E: davidhunter@stridetreglown.com

van Heyningen & Haward (website)
van Heyningen and Haward is an award winning design-led practice.

Work in the education sector generally contributes well over half our turnover. We have a reputation for being able to achieve an elegant and cost effective resolution of complex briefs, creatively adapting existing buildings or designing completely new ones. All our buildings are specific; we are a design-led practice, and the particular interaction between client, site and brief always gives a distinctive response.

We are proud to have been named BD Education Architect of the Year in 2007 and short-listed for both Education categories (School and Higher/Further Education) in 2009.

Contact: Chris Wilderspin, Tel: 0207 482 4454, Email:  chris@vhh.co.uk

Walters & Cohen (website)

Wilkinson Eyre (website)