The Ashford Gateway was commissioned by Kent County Council and Ashford Borough Council to house an array of public services, including a library, adult education centre, register office and café. The call was for an iconic and energy-efficient new civic building which would relate to its urban context and the adjacent Town Centre Conservation Area.

made Architects, in collaboration with LXA Projects, worked closely with Gretton School through RIBA Stages 4-6 to design and deliver new specialist SEN classrooms, administration and meeting spaces within the existing school and a new-build Reception Main Entrance with additional visitor parking.

Working for a contractor under design-and-build procurement, the new block for Bradfields Academy in Medway comprises 12 new classrooms for children with special needs and disabilities, specialist teaching rooms, a library and two large activity teaching spaces.

Valley Invicta Primary School is a new school that was built to provide additional school places for families moving into new residential developments at Kings Hill, a modern and expanding garden village in Kent. The design had to be future-proofed for enlargement to a three-form entry school, with the construction taking place in two phases. The completed first phase provided a one-form entry school with special educational needs provision for children on the autism spectrum. A future phase will expand the school to three-form entry, to accommodate extra places that will be required as Kings Hill grows.

Frittenden CofE Primary School is a small, rural school which is Grade II listed. The school buildings did not meet government design guidance, and this made it difficult to meet the requirements of Ofsted and Every Child Matters.

Extension and refurbishment to enable the integration of a new form of entry per year, as well as other specialist spaces, dining and new library.

After the successful completion of the refurbishment of a science block and a new resource centre, La Retraite RC Girls’ School in Clapham Park invited Burns Guthrie to prepare designs for a new Movement, Music and Dance building. The building includes dance and drama suites with their own separate entrances, two music classrooms, changing rooms and staff offices.

In 2017, West Sussex County Council commissioned Burns Guthrie to carry out feasibility studies for 14 schools. In the case of Duncton, the challenge was to design a new school to amalgamate the existing and separate infant and junior schools into one new school. This involved extensive discussions with both schools, the Local Education Authority and the Diocese. It was important that the design inspired and won approval from all stakeholders and had to allow the school to operate during construction work.

made architects have been appointed to redesign the internal layout and interior spaces within South East Coast Ambulance call centre. This will bring an increase in functionality to the space and promote the wellbeing of the staff that use the space.

Made Architects Limited have been instructed to review the opportunities at Abingdon House School to develop options for the school extension to accommodate an increase in the cohort of one class per year.