Central Foundation Boys' School

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Education · Heritage School Reuse And Extension · Temperate · 2023

A redevelopment of a tight Shoreditch secondary-school campus of seven buildings, including a Grade II-listed former county court and the Tabernacle Chapel, assembled over 150 years around a central courtyard. The scheme reuses and restores the historic buildings, adds new science labs and a Creative Arts Centre in the chapel, and sinks a sports hall seven metres below the courtyard. It won BD's 2024 Education Architect of the Year and a London Sustainability Award.

Innovation highlights

• Sports hall sunk 7m below a courtyard on a tight site
• Creative reuse of listed court and chapel buildings
• Carbon reduction central to a deep school refurbishment
• New uses inserted into heritage fabric

Innovations in the catalogue

• Subterranean Sports Hall on a Constrained Site
• Creative Reuse of Listed Heritage Buildings
• Low-Maintenance Carbon-Led School Refurbishment

Client / Developer

Central Foundation Boys' School

Architect

Hawkins\Brown

Type

Heritage School Reuse and Extension

#education #adaptive reuse #heritage #subterranean #sustainability

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