Edith Neville Primary School will be open as part of @opencity_uk on Saturday 21st September between 10am and 1pm with guided tours every 30 minutes (last entry 12.30).
The project won a RIBA National Award in 2023, NLA Best Education Building in London 2023 and a Civic Trust Award in 2024.
Entry to the site will be via the pupil entrance at the junction of Ossulston Street and Polygon Road.
Hope to see you there…!
More info on the Open House website.
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Thank you @merlinfulcher_ and @architectsjournal for including Edith Neville Primary School in your ‘must-see’ in this year’s Open House.
Edith Neville will be open as part of @opencity_uk on Saturday 21st September between 10am-1pm. No need to book. There will be guided tours by our team and the school every half an hour.
We would love to see you there…!
On 8th September 2004, Jonathan Tyler and I set up ‘Tyler Hayhurst’ along with Jonathan Nicholls. We’d recently completed our Part 2s and kind of fell out of the imperfect practice we had been involved with before. We inherited some domestic projects and took out a £10k bank loan: rolled the dice and set out to see where our 26 year olds’ optimism would take us.
Back then, we had door blanks for desks and sat on salvaged chairs from a skip. We had a fax machine for sending sketches to builders, were using JCT ’98 contracts and the RIBA even published ‘indicative’ fee scales, hahaha…
In 2007, Jonathan Tyler left the practice to move to America, in 2009 we became ‘Hayhurst & Co’ and in 2013 Jonathan Nicholls became a Director. In 2015, Jamie Wakeford Holder and Claire Taggart – now our Associates – joined the practice and all three have been central to the practice’s success, along with the many talented architects and assistants we’ve had the pleasure of working with.
We put our head above the parapet as the recession emerged. Interested in the playfulness of education projects, the spirit of what a house is and the detailing to execute these. We’re proud of all the work that we have done, especially the 9 RIBA Awards we’ve won (the images on this post) and proud of our 20-strong team across our studios in London and Bristol. Highlights include winning the competition for the Clore Learning Space at the RIBA, winning Education Architect of the Year in 2022 and RIBA House of the Year in 2023 along with Claire winning RIBA London Project Architect of the Year.
Thank you to everyone who has worked with us, staff past and present, clients and collaborators and especially to the contractors who have persevered and made the sometimes-bonkers things we have designed come to life. We have a super exciting set of projects at every design stage at the moment which we are looking forward to sharing in the future.
And so onwards… hopefully more time for ‘double art’ (as I call it), less time on e-mails and – in the week the final report of the Grenfell Inquiry is published – embracing the wider professional roles that society demands of us and being paid the requisite fee to deliver it.