What we’ve made
Ashford Gateway
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.
Gretton School
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.
Bradfields Academy SEND Teaching Block
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, Kings Hill
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 School, Kent
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.
Gretton Rectory School
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.
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls’ School, London
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.
Duncton School, West Sussex
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.
South East Coast Ambulance Centre
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.
Abingdon House School
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.
Rutherford School
Development proposing new fully accessible and controlled entrance, new classroom, replacement therapy pool and therapy spaces for Rutherford school’s (special educational needs) 18-25 year cohort and wider community use.
James Allen Girls (JAGs) Pre-Prep School
made Architects have been appointed to transform a locally listed historical Pre-Prep building into comfortable and modern maisonettes. made will sensitively preserve the existing structure and character of the building whilst designing unique and individual dwellings giving a new life to its original forms.
Newcome Hall School
We are working with an SEND education group providing technical design services for the construction of a new contemporary entrance at a Victorian primary school in Purley, Surrey.
We have inherited sketch designs, which are to be developed for improved buildability / usability alongside the engaged building contractor, whilst retaining the conceptual design ethos.
South East Coast Ambulance make ready centre
Two purpose designed, state of the art centres providing training, support and educational facilities. Schemes included ambulance simulators and other innovative interactive teaching environments.
Northwood School
We are working with Northwood SEND School on an application for the extension of the existing main building to create a Media Specialist Hub over 2 storeys. The new accommodation will also rationalise current circulation routes and internal layouts creating a new secure entrance and school development.
Gwinear School
made Architects second project with ISOSpaces and D3 Contracts is to deliver this new off-site school extension at Gwinear, Cornwall.
The classroom module will provide additional space for new students in reception.