Delighted to see our Edith Neville Primary School for @wemakecamden published in @dezeen yesterday.

The project has been a total labour of love for the practice since 2014. It has been a real collaborative effort with the school community, consultants and our own internal team. It couldn’t have been delivered without the sterling effort of so many people.

The wider design team aren’t listed on the dezeen article so this post is to acknowledge the amazing work done by so many hands over the last 8 years.

Hayhurst & Co design team:
Jamie Wakeford, Amy Waite, Bronya Meredith, Rory Lean, Mariko Whittaker, Antonis Papamichael, Nick Hayhurst, Jonathan Nicholls.

Consultant Team:
Landscape Design: Howard Miller Design (@hmillerbros)
Structural Engineer: @priceandmyers
MEP Engineer: @maxfordhamllp
Project Manager: Urban Logik
Quantity Surveyor: Currie & Brown
Principal Designer: Currie & Brown
Employer’s Agent: Capital Property & Construction
Fire Consultant: Exova
Contractor: Neilcott Construction
Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool #camdenschools #school #schooldesign #learningspaces #architecture #londonarchitecture #schoolarchitecture

We are thrilled to announce that we have won ‘Education Architect of the Year’ at this year’s Architect of the Year Awards.

This validates almost two decades of work delivering publicly-funded school projects for young children and their school communities.

More posts (with the actual work!) to follow…

Photo Credit: @richardc100

#schooldesign #educationbuilding #architectureaward #architecture

Big congratulations to Ruby Sleigh and Marina Konstantopoulou from the Hayhurst & Co team who both passed their RIBA Part 3 with flying colours today…!

Ruby is currently working on a new development of 6 homes on a backland site in north-London which we will be submitting for planning soon. In addition to practice, Ruby also teaches on the MArch course at Oxford Brookes University and is helping lead the practice’s sustainability initiatives.

Marina is leading two residential projects which are both on site. A refurbishment and extension of a house in Swiss Cottage and a retrofit of a 1960s house in Hackney. Marina is helping lead the practices’ approach to visual representation techniques.

Delighted that our Green House in Tottenham has won the ‘Custom and self-build project of the year’ at the Structural Timber Awards ceremony on Wednesday night.

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco #selfbuild #custombuild #timber #structuraltimber #architectureaward #timberhouse

The lovely RIBA Journal article is now on-line on the RIBA Journal website. Extracted here…

Have a read…!

‘A different world’

Edith Neville Primary School in Somers Town, London for Camden Council is our first new-build school project and a building that synthesises so many of the practice’s educational and architectural principles. It is amazing to see it in print – it has been a long time coming! We will be sharing more about the project in coming weeks and months.

Thank you RIBA Journal and Chris Foges for such a thorough, careful and astute write up.

‘Edith Neville is the sort of ambitious, generous and situation-specific building that routinely filled architecture magazines and awards lists in the late 2000s, until the government had an abrupt change of heart and insisted instead on standardisation and efficiency’

‘Hayhurst & Co’s intricate, light-filled building is bursting with architectural ideas and extraordinary spatial events, but none is simply indulgent: every move is rooted in a coherent educational ethos – and evident empathy with young children’

‘Its effect has been profound, says Ruby Nasser, Headteacher. “Some parents cried when we first showed them around” The children are noticeably calmer, she notes, and have greater self-esteem – not least because their school is a match for flashy buildings springing up on every side of Somers Town. Too few new school heads could say the same, but it is what every child deserves”

A different world indeed.

@ribajournal @chris.foges @wemakecamden #edithneville #edithnevilleprimaryschool #school #schoolbuilding #camden #hayhurstandco #schooldesign #learningspaces