We’re delighted that ‘Hampstead Town House’ – a retrofit of a 5-storey modernist home in North London – has been shortlisted for a 2026 RIBA London Award.

We are looking forward to meeting the jury and showing them around the house next month!

A big congratulations to our amazing client and project team;

Structural Engineer: @priceandmyers
Services Engineer: @mwl_group
Cost Consultant: @stature.london
Contractor: Re-build London
Planning Consutlant: SM Planning
Joinery: @vialle_and_co
Hayhurst & Co Team: Jamie Wakeford Holder, Alex Boyce, Laura Mohirta, Nick Hayhurst

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

@riba @ribalondon #hampsteadtownhouse #hayhurstandco #hampstead #modernist #home

Hampstead Town House

Designed at a time when energy use and thermal performance was not as considered as it is today, the house comprised an uninsulated concrete frame supporting an external brick leaf on large cantilevers that thermally bridged inside to out. The brief was to repair, renew and spatially reinvigorate the house for its new owners without comprising the integrity of the original architecture.

The house is now heated with an ASHP, walls and soffits heavily lined with insulation and with replacement double-glazed oak windows that faithfully match the fenestration of the existing house. An approach that minimises heat loss and energy consumption and creates a sustainable and healthy home.

The dining space is twice as tall as it is wide and features a new cherry-clad coffered arched ceiling. The mirrored linings on the adjacent angled wall expand the sense of the space and provide an awesome geometric form with daylight and tree canopies reflected back into the room below.

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#hayhurstandco #hampsteadtownhouse #hampstead #modernist #london

Hampstead Town House

The existing floor plates were opened-up in order to enter the home in the middle of a triple height void stretching over 7.8m and with long views out the rear window and on into the tree canopies beyond. An internal spatial gymnastic act from lower ground to first floor that mimics the drama and poise of the external structural cantilever that stretches from the first floor to the third.

Down the stairs is a dining space which is twice as tall as it is wide and features a mirror-lined angled frieze that ricochets daylight and tree canopies back into the room. The kitchen is a further 3 steps down to the front.

The living space is located on the first floor, the main bedroom suite on the second and two bedrooms and a bathroom on the third accessed by the existing stair turret which has been insulated and lined in vertical timber cladding.

Photo Credit: @kilianosullivan

#hayhurstandco #hampsteadtownhouse #hampstead #retrofit #londonhome

A new home – Hampstead Town House – is published on our website today.

‘Hampstead Town House’ is a repaired, renewed and rejuvenated modernist home executed with spatial poise, drama and delight.

Designed in 1970 by the Architects Igal Yawetz and Howard Radley, the existing home sits on a micro-sized 30m2 footprint bookending the adjacent Victorian villa. The design threads a new 7.8m triple-height void through the house now comprising 6 internal floor levels, 2 roof terraces and 5 different types of stairs to create a newly-connected sense of vertical living.

Traditional modernist linings such as reclaimed parquet and cherry and walnut linings have been installed: some in their authentic modernist form and others, like the dining room ceiling, with a new sculptural form and dynamic which is reflected in internal high-level mirrors. The tiles from the existing sunken bathroom have been re-used to provide new sanitaryware and a connection to the house’s original opulence.

‘Hampstead Town House’ is both faithful modernist restoration and spatial and sculptural re-order.

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#hampsteadtownhouse #hayhurstandco #hampstead #modernisthome #retrofit

North Sea East Wood, 2023
RIBA East Award, 2025
RIBA East Small Project of the Year, 2025

Located at one of the highest points in the North Norfolk town of Cromer, ‘North Sea East Wood’ sits in a unique location between views of the North Sea to the north and East Wood to the south.

Originally part of the garden of the neighbouring house, the 1980s, H-plan, pattern-book bungalow sat on a flat piece of land where the tennis court to the neighbouring house was once located: the only flat piece of land on a site that has a 7m difference from top to bottom and at a fall of up to 1 in 6.

The bungalow’s design didn’t acknowledge its site. The living spaces were located on the southern wing of the plan that looked into the rising ground, and its northern wall – with the promise of a view to the sea – was solid, broken only by a miserly vision panel in the Utility Room door.

The design radically re-structures the house. It breaks the room-based, orthogonal order of the bungalow and enmeshes within and around it a new, spatially-fluid, site-specific and contextual order structured around views to the sea, the church and the woods.

The extension to the house is finished in local flint and re-uses clay roof tiles from the demolished garage. To the North Sea, it’s hobbit-like elevation with stepped picture windows on inward-facing planes around a central chimney a counterpoint to the archetypal coastal typology of wrap-around verandas reaching for views.

To the East Woods, the ribbon glazing carves an inverted form that creates a panoramic view of the foot of the woods from all of the key living spaces. The high-level window in the kitchen helps get light deeper into the plan whilst providing structured views where the rigidness of the original bungalow meets the spatial ambiguity of its extension.

Location: Cromer, Norfolk
Design Team: Nick Hayhurst, Tony Berongoy, Marina Konstantopoulou
Contractor: AJ Cooper Builders
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
Planting: Stark Garden Design
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#northseaeastwood #cromer #ribaaward #flint #norfolk @ribaeast

Edith Neville Primary School, 2022
RIBA National Award, 2023

The re-building of Edith Neville Primary School forms the first phase of Camden’s new £89m Central Somers Town regeneration masterplan. Located between St. Pancras station, the Crick Institute and Euston station, Central Somers Town is a short walk from some of London’s busiest landmarks yet also one of its most deprived and neglected neighbourhoods.

The design of the new building was developed around the idea of a family-scale courtyard ‘oasis’, which welcomes families into the heart of the building. This provides parents with access to its various facilities, whilst also accommodating pick-up and drop-off of multiple siblings simultaneously.

The new school is conceived as part of the surrounding parkland landscape and its building and boundary are designed to extend the park, both physically and perceptively. The white, filigree site enclosure and building envelope provide a multi-layered backdrop to the public spaces they face. Planting is strategically placed to grow up and through the façade, creating pieces of vertical park, whilst carefully considered openings through the bespoke perforate fencing allow visual permeability without compromise to the school’s sense of protection.

Internally, the main route between the entrance and the hall was widened to become a ‘gallery’ for large-scale hanging artwork and parents to mingle in the heart of the building. Similarly, classroom storage walls are punctured to create a ‘shopfront window’ for each class to present their work, and windows and rooflights mediate long and short views to make teaching spaces feel part of the extended landscape and wider city.

Client: London Borough of Camden
Design Team: Jamie Wakeford, Amy Waite, Bronya Meredith, Rory Lean, Mariko Whittaker, Antonis Papamichael, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst
Project Manager: Urban Logik
Landscape Design: Howard Miller Design
Quantity Surveyor: Currie & Brown
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
M+E Engineer: Max Fordham
Photo Credit: Kllian O’Sullivan

#schooldesign #learningspaces #londonarchitecture @wemakecamden #edithnevilleprimaryschool #ribaaward @ribalondon

Green House, 2021
RIBA London Award 2023
RIBA House of the Year 2023
RIBA London Project Architect of the Year 2023 (Claire Taggart)

Green House is located on a small back lane once surrounded by coach houses, orchards, greenhouses and market gardens: a small area of re-wilded woodland opposite the house remains. The design for Green House draws on this natural history and verdant character of the site: providing a contemporary re-imagining of a domestic greenhouse. A design that blurs the boundaries between inside and outside spaces and re-greens a once unloved site.

A central, top-lit, riad-style atrium connects all living spaces, upstairs and downstairs, and brings daylight into the heart of the house. The atrium assists in cooling the house on hot days through natural stack ventilation with solar glass windows fitted with temperature and rain sensors.

Developed closely with the clients, the living spaces are open plan to maximise the sense of space and flexibility of use. The curtains wrap around the whole atrium to allow the central dining space to be separated off as an awesome, double-height dining hall as well as providing acoustic absorption to the inside spaces.

The simple ‘block’ form of the house was chosen for its simplicity and efficient use of the Cross-Laminated timber (CLT) frame. The end grain has been deliberately exposed and growth rings displayed to visually express how the material has grown. The internal doors are made from CLT notched into the frame avoiding door frames and architraves.

The south-facing front façade is planted with bamboo, with sliding polycarbonate screens that reference the greenhouses that once stood on the site. The plants and screens softly filter the daylight whilst maintaining privacy and provide solar shading on hot summer days.

Location: Tottenham, London
Design Team: Claire Taggart, Holly Crosbie, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst,
Contract Value: £550k
Contractor: Rebuild London
CLT Contractor: Eurban
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
M&E and Energy Consultants: Mesh Energy
Steelworks: Surrey Steel
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#greenhouse #houseoftheyear #newhouse #sustainablehouse #tottenham

Grain House, 2019
RIBA London Award, 2021
RIBA House of the Year Longlist 2021

Grain House is a remodelled and extended Victorian, semi-detached property in the de Beauvoir Conservation Area in Hackney, north London. Designed for a young family, the house connects original and new living spaces and creates a visual link from the entrance, through the family spaces to the garden and on to the new artist’s studio at the back of the site.

Prior to the works, the house was arranged as a series of small, cellular spaces with only a narrow servant stair connecting the living spaces on the lower and upper ground floors. The new design dramatically reconnects these living spaces with the creation of a 2-storey courtyard at the heart of the house that is home to a new Japanese privet tree.

Both the grand staircases, the original one leading upwards and a new one leading downwards, present a threshold between the formal spaces to the Victorian property and the contemporary living spaces below.

The new staircase wraps around the courtyard providing views of the upper branches of the tree and different views through the house and garden as one moves from one level to the next. At the lower ground floor level, the extension helps define the relationship to the garden, with a picture window from the kitchen and a window seat to the dining space.

The palette of materials includes hand-made tiles, natural lime plaster, pre-patinated copper and charred larch. Native timbers were sourced, where possible, and were combined to create a distinctive kitchen made by Sebastian Cox.

The materials have been sourced to mature over time, providing a rich texture of weathered and patinated finishes. The studio, shaped in response to the profile of an old summer house, takes the form of a magical imaginary woodland creature nestling amongst the trees like a piece of inhabited sculpture.

Location: Dalston, London
Design Team: Jonathan Nicholls, Holly Jean Crosbie, Rory Lean, Nick Hayhurst
Contractor: Rebuild London
Kitchen: Sebastian Cox
Structural Engineer: Webb Yates
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#grainhouse #home #house #newhome #architecture

Torriano Primary School, 2018
RIBA London Award, 2019
RIBA London Small Project of the Year Award, 2019

The brief for this STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ‘Activity Lab’ for this school in Kentish Town, north London was to provide a ‘space like no other’. The response was to convert a two-storey ‘turret’ at the top of the school and create a small, shiny and shingled roof-top extension with an external learning terrace.

The extension provides a space where primary-school aged children can engage in active and physical experiments and testing of technology-based subjects. The designs were developed through workshops with the school’s pupils and Artist in Residence, Jack Cornell, to explore, test, draw and model the future uses of the space.

The new space features a double-height activity zone with irregular, CNC-cut, laminated ply portals to define the space. The portals include openings that facilitate activities to enhance practical teaching such as where pulleys can be hung or fabric suspended. Constellations are etched into the faces of the timber.

The space also includes fold-down demonstration desks, floor projection equipment and a mezzanine to enable students to gain additional height to undertake practical physics experiments. Externally, the project has an external, south-facing terrace which includes plants in bespoke growing troughs.

Location: Torriano Primary School, Kentish Town, London
Client: London Borough of Camden
Design Team: Claire Taggart, Alex Boyce, Nick Hayhurst,
Project Manager: LB Camden (Paul Greatbatch)
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
Services Engineer: Edward Pearce LLP
CDM Advisor: Goddard Consulting
Contractor: Bolt & Heeks
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

@wemakecamden #torrianoprimaryschool #schooldesign #stem #architecture #education

Whole House, 2016
RIBA London Award, 2017
RIBA House of the Year Longlist 2017

Whole House is a home full of contradictions: a house with big ideas on a small site. A house with no windows that is flooded with light. A unique house for a developer client who wished to maximise the development potential of this unloved site.

Bounded by back gardens to Victorian and inter-war housing and a super-sized 1990s mews development, Whole House is a 92m2 house organised around a central courtyard: an exemplar for contemporary, back-land, urban living.

The entrance to the house sits in a wide, deep reveal accessed via a large sliding gate. A smaller gate to the side provides access to the bin store and adds to the sense of depth to this small domestic elevation. The circulation and day-lighting strategies were developed together to create a light, delightful and picturesque promenade as one walks around the house.

Walking around the central courtyard provides views in each direction and a visual connection to the sky and the surrounding roofs and tree-tops. As the stair wraps from bottom to top the scale of the stair varies to provide a faster pace, a slower pace, a wider stair or a narrower stair: design moves that reflect the level of implied privacy and openness of the house.

The main bedroom and bathroom are located at basement level and lit from the pavement light over the central courtyard with a curtain integrated into the cabinetry. At the upper level, the kitchen, dining and living spaces benefit from south light and access to the central courtyard. Each of the four corners of the house has a skylight that extends the length of internal views.

Client: Bramfield Property
Location: Clapham, London
Contract Value: £375K
Design Team: Amy Waite, Jess Lyons, Bronya Meredith, Jonathan Nicholls, Nick Hayhurst,
Structural Engineer: Toynbee Associates
Contractor: Rebuild (London) Ltd.
Photographs: Marcus Peel & Kilian O’Sullivan

@bramfieldstudio #house #home #ribaaward #londonhome #newhome

Pegasus Academy, 2013
RIBA London Award, 2014
Architectural Review School of the Year, 2015

The remodelling and expansion of Pegasus Academy brings together a fragmented site with a series of interventions and extensions that thread new teaching spaces through a complex fabric of existing buildings. The result is a striking transformation of the school that clearly marks the civic pride and significance of a school at the heart of its community.

The concept of a ‘responsive roofscape’ informs a site-wide strategy to revitalise the different learning environments and provide a controlled sense of scale to the new development. Conceived as a series of room-scaled extensions, the design assimilates the pitches and proportions of the Victorian school but plays with the scale and repetition of the roof forms: the language of the Victorian school is adapted to animate and excite a playful and stimulating set of learning environments.

A new ribbon of timber slats at ceiling level within the circulation routes brings the two schools together and connects the new with the old. The miniature peaks of the nursery mimic the Victorian dormer windows of the adjacent Infant Hall. The scale of the pitches vary from one room teaching area to the next, growing in size in response to the age of the children and defining the form of the room beneath.

The new facade brings the two schools together by adopting the pitches and massing of the Victorian buildings at either end. The resultant form leads the eye towards the Victorian Junior Gym building; reinforcing its prime position in the group of buildings that make up the frontage of the school

Client: London Borough of Croydon
Stakeholder: Pegasus Academy Trust
Location: Thornton Heath, London
Design Team: Howard Miller, Anna Ludwig, Jonathan Nicholls, Andrew Ensslen, Ardi Rexhepi, Jess Tettelaar, Nick Hayhurst
Quantity Surveyor: SENSE
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
M+E Engineer: Hurley Palmer Flat/ MSL
BREEAM: Bianco Sale
Acoustician: Cass Allen
Contractor: Kier/ Morgan Sindall
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan & Anthony Coleman

#hayhurstandco #school #schooldesign #education #croydon

Hayes Primary School, 2012
RIBA National Award 2013

The expansion of Hayes Primary School provides an exciting and vibrant new extension to a tired and out-dated school building; an extension that flickers and glimmers with the reflection of the adjacent trees providing a renewed energy to a building at the heart of its community. The new accommodation is located at the front of the school site providing the opportunity to create the appearance of a new school.

The extension provides new accommodation for an additional 105 pupil spaces, comprising 4 new infant classrooms, ICT Lab, a small hall and new administration facilities.

The building uses an engineered, cross-laminated timber system. This material is also used to form a central storage wall that runs through the new school: a 650mm thick wall, made up from horizontally stacked timber panels that give an internal elevation of exposed timber end-grains.

The solid-timber pieces are cut and stacked to form openings in the wall, through to the classrooms, and with recesses on alternating sides that form shelves for the school library, seats and reading alcoves as well as storage for classroom equipment and teaching materials. When stacked and biscuit-jointed, the end grain of the pre-fabricated element appears as a substantial and solid core at the centre of the school.

This mirror-finished screen, positioned at high-level on the building’s façade, reflects the canopies of the mature trees at the front of the school site, giving the illusion that the mass of the building is reduced. Walking or driving past the building gives the sense of a dynamic elevation: a variable, enlivening and visually-engaging elevation.

Client: London Borough of Croydon
Stakeholder: The Hayes Primary School
Location: Kenley, Surrey
Design Team: Jonathan Nicholls, Graham Parton, Lizzie Ruinard, JessTettelaar, Ardi Rexhepi, Nick Hayhurst.
Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon (now Aecom)
Structural Engineer: Crofton Design
CLT Engineers and Supplier: Eurban
M+E Engineer: Crofton Design/ MSL
CDMC: GEP Safety
Contractor: Kier
Landscape Consultant: PIP Partnership Ltd
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan, Richard Nicholson

Hairy House, 2011
RIBA National Award 2012
RIBA London Small Project of the Year Award 2012

Hairy House, named because of the wildflower turf roof, is an extension to a Victorian end of terrace house. Replacing a dilapidated lean-to, the extension provides a new family kitchen, dining and play space. The simplicity of the brief was combined with the opportunities afforded by the site’s unusual geometry and topography to create a unique architectural response.

The design of this room – a simple rear extension – is conceived as an architectural negotiation between the order of the existing Victorian house and the patterns of modern domestic life.

The lower ground floor level is dropped to provide a 2.8m floor-to-ceiling height that matches the proportions and sense of space of the existing house. The ceiling line is angled up towards the south-west and the afternoon sun which defines the angle of the slate cladding on the rear elevation.

As one enters the house, the hall connecting the staircase to the existing house widens to provide ‘shuffle-space’ for someone coming out of the utility room with a laundry basket whilst the conventional timber floorboards used on the long stairs reduce in module size as they approach the original tiling in the entrance hall.

Inside the new kitchen and dining space, the formality of a space for dining is combined with the informality of a window seat. The seat itself is sculpted and lined in vertical timer boards to emulate traditional Victorian panelling. A curtain to the rear window is housed within the timber lining.

Client: Lucy Carmichael and Gareth Langdon
Location: Hammersmith, London
Design Team: Anna Ludwig, Richard Macrae, Nick Hayhurst
Structural Engineer: Iain Wright Associates
Kitchen Design: Gareth Langdon
Contractor: Rebuild London
Photo Credit: Kilian O’Sullivan

#hayhurstandco #houseextension #ribaaward #architecture #house

If you happen to be in Plymouth on Tuesday evening…

Jonathan will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Space to Learn’ to @parcsplymouth – Plymouth Architectural Society – on Tuesday 11th November.

Jonathan will be talking about our approach to designing bespoke homes, innovative schools and impactful community projects across the South-West.

The Lecture will be at 5pm on the 6th Floor of the Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth.

See you there…!

#hayhurstandco #lecture #architecturelecture #plymoutharchitecture #devonsrchitecture @plymuni

Student Site Visit

It was great to welcome architecture students from Unit A Oxford Brookes University taught by @incrementalarchitecture with @rubysleigh and Ruth Cuenca to visit our retrofit and extension of Filwood Community Centre yesterday and observe the work in progress.

It is exciting times as the CLT frame goes up for the new library and just as the existing building as it is most stripped back before new materials start to be installed and to se retrofit in action.

Thank you to our super Project Architect Christina Agoston-Vas for leading the tour and our amazing contractors @brayandslaughter for facilitating the visit…!

@oxfordbrookes @unit_a_obu @filwoodcentre @bristolcouncil #retrofit #community #clt #crosslaminatedtimber #library

It was a pleasure to talk last week to the LSE’s Urban 95 Academy about the principles underlying the design of our Edith Neville Primary School: how it relates to the adjacent public open space and formed a central part of Camden Council’s Community Investment Programme.

We talked about entrances, boundaries, school streets, safeguarding, the idea of ‘bedroom to classroom’ and creating gathering points and community spaces within educational environments.

The LSE Urban95 Academy is a fully-funded executive education programme for municipal leaders from around the world to learn and develop strategies to make cities better for young children and their caregivers. It was fascinating to share experiences and best practice with such a wide variety of architects, landscape architects, urban designers and educationalists.

Thank you to @dinahbornat for the invitation. Thank you to Simon Battisti for the photos.

#edithnevilleprimaryschool @wemakecamden @lsecities @urban95br #centralsomerstown

Now into its sixth month on site, works at Filwood Community Centre have exposed many layers of the building’s history – including this period newspaper cavity closer from Friday 27th August 1937!

After months of carefully stripping back past modifications, linings and layers of paint to retrofit new thermal improvements, outside the ground works are now nearing completion, and later this week the site will see the first delivery of the CLT superstructure. An exciting moment to reflect on the historic form of the building, which over the next few months with be transformed with new layers and the creation of new spaces to serve the local community for generations to come.

@filwoodcentre @bristolcouncil @brayandslaughter @integral_engineering_design @greengaugebec @bd_landscape @youandme_archi #blackboxplanning #hayhurstandco #retrofit #community #bristol #filwood

North Sea East Wood goes international…!

We’re delighted that our remodelling and adaption of a 1980s bungalow in deepest Norfolk has been shortlisted for a @dezeenawards in the house extension category.

From 4,300 entries from 89 countries, the awards have shortlisted 92 projects of which only 5 are in the house extension category and North Sea East Wood the only project in the UK.

The project showcases vernacular materials used in contemporary manner in a rural setting. The irregular plan-form is designed to optimise outward views of North sea and East wood.

We are delighted to be up against practices from Australia, Switzerland Denmark and looking forward to the awards ceremony in November! Best of luck to the other shortlisted practices: @cerastribley @modo_arch @sara_gelibter_architecte #studiomarshallblecher #janhenrikjansenarkitekter

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

@dezeen #dezeen #northseaeastwood #cromer #cromerhouseextension #norfolk #norfolkhouseextension #architecture #architectureawards #houseextension

We’re delighted to have won a Camden Design Award for our very special Edith Neville Primary School.

The judges complimented the scheme for its amazing light, sense of space and bringing the outside in with each classroom having its own outside space. A design process and outcome that reflects the schools own values (captured here).

Nick and Jamie were at the awards ceremony yesterday evening to pick up the award!

Photo credit: @kilianosullivan

#edithnevilleprimaryschool #camdendesignawards #hayhurstandco #schooldesign @wemakecamden

Nick will be one of 4 speakers talking at the AJ Webinar at 11am this morning about best practice in community engagement and getting the fee right.

The webinar will focus on the different engagement strategy that Hayhurst & Co has employed working with @youandme_archi on the development of Filwood Community Centre in Bristol for @bristolcouncil

Hosted by @hattiehartman from the @architectsjournal , Nick will be talking alongside Holly Lewis from @we_made_that Tim Forster from AWW Architects and Simon Berry from Fresh Projects.

Come listen…! Link in bio.

#hayhurstandco #community #engagement @filwoodcentre #bristol

Green House. September afternoons…

Thank you so much to our amazing clients Tom & Amandine for opening up their house again this year….!

#greenhouse #hayhurstandco @opencity_uk

Always lovely to see Green House in print and included in Top 10 sees for this year’s Open House.

They’re ‘weird and wonderful’ … Yesterday, it was the pin-up project for the Evening Standards “10 best homes to visit at this year’s Open House festival”

* Please note that this is pre-booked tours only through the @opencity_uk website.

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/ interiors/open-house-festival-top-picks-private-homes-b1245787.html

@opencity_uk #openhouse #openhouse2025 #greenhouse #hayhurstsndco #houseoftheyear #ribahouseoftheyear #houseoftheyear2023 #ribahouseoftheyear2023 @eveningstandard_in @carocomms

Studio Outing…!

We had a great studio outing last week centred around Stratford, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Hackney Wick seeing a great array of buildings and landscapes.

Photos in slightly rambling order from the Hayhurst & Co team – itinerary included;

1. Saddler’s Wells East by @odonnell_tuomey
2. @lcflondon_ by @alliesandmorrison
3. @londonaquaticcentre by @zahahadidarchitects
4. @hackney_bridge by @turner.works
5. V&A Storefront by @diller_scofidio_renfro
6. Chowdhury Walk by @aljawadpike
7. @cratebrewery aka The White Building by @officedka

Especially big thanks to Michael Fostiropoulous & Katie Nelson from @turner.works for the show & tell and tour of the amazing and resourceful Hackney Bridge.

#hayhurstandco #studioawayday #awayday #studioouting

Last week we welcomed Hana and Stevie, Y10 students from Charter School North Dulwich into the studio for work experience.

They took part in the studios activities – visiting site, sitting in on design sessions, Architectural Assistants Julia and Carl shared their portfolios and Dovile showed them some of her first year students work from the Bartlett.

They also had their own project – a home and garden for an artist of their choice on the roof of our Spitalfields studio. Stevie chose artist Damien Hirst and Hana chose music producer Zack Nahome.

They carried out a survey, developed a brief and a design using hand-drawing, sketchup and enscape concluding with a presentation of their proposals to the team on our Friday show & tell.

Well done Stevie & Hana 👏👏👏

@tcsnorthdulwich #workexperience @charterdesign #hayhurstsndco

Last week Ruby Sleigh – Hayhurst & Co’s sustainability and regenerative design lead – participated in ICSA2025, the 6th International Conference on Structures and Architecture, which focused this year on reuse.

Ruby presented in the special session ‘Kind Structures and Architecture’ with a paper on adaptive reuse in non-human worlds, specifically the adaptation of industrialised structures used to farm animals. Uniting biodiversity and climate crises with contemporary ethical and social crises, her paper explored the reimagination and expansion of co-design towards multispecies partnerings.

Excited by innovative material studies to reuse demolition concrete; making reuse of structural timber standard practice and learning how computational analysis and design could facilitate localised earth constructions, Ruby will be further developing the practice’s sustainability road map over the coming weeks. In particular, how to anchor these academic knowledges into professional practice and the built environment into our London & Bristol studios.

Ruby’s paper is part of the Special Issue published by Springer Journal – available Open Access for the next 5 weeks here: https://link.springer.com/collections/dcaffihijf

The main conference proceedings can be accessed here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.1201/9781003658641/structures-architecture-mario-rinke-marie-frier-hvejsel?context=ubx&refId=7d0abd4e-8bce-4f43-8182-193cf9033d75

#icsa2025 #kindstructuresandarchitecture #sustainability #regenerativematerials

Nick had the pleasure of being in Hong Kong this last week as Chair of the RIBA Validation Panel at the Chinese University in Hong Kong (CUHK) along with Athina Moustaka, James Lai, Michael Ng and Tracy Flanagan.

Highlights included an amazing array of physical models and the school’s own roof-top allotments. The architecture school is located in its own purpose-built building on the steeply-sloped CU campus in the Sha Tin district of the New Territories.

#riba #ribaeducation #cuhkarchitecture

Whole House has been featured on the AJ as part of their ‘First Look’ series. To read more about our RIBA House of the Year shortlisted project click here

Our project Barn-ish Brighton-ish has been shortlisted for an AJ retrofit award for houses under £250,000. Constructed within the confines of the existing buildings shell, the design provides new single and double- height spaces in this long, thin plan building. The new spaces are opened up and sculpted around the existing structure to enable the new elements to be clearly read against the historic fabric.

Whole House has been shortlisted in the residential project category at the Blueprint awards 2017. Whole House is a house full of contradictions: a house with large ideas on a small garage site. A house with no windows that is flooded with light. A unique house for a speculative developer client.