Architype

We are delighted that the Greenwich Park Revealed project has been recognised at the @landscapeinstitute Awards 2025, winning the Excellence in Heritage & Culture award for @theroyalparks . We are incredibly proud to have contributed to this transformative project, particularly through our early concept sketches and visualisations, which helped shape the design narrative for this much-loved historic landscape. Well done to the entire design team whose combined expertise made this achievement possible: Landscape Studio @huntleycartwright @priceandmyers @architypeuk HydrEau Engineering Consulting (HEEC), PAG Consultancy Ltd, Canopy Consultancy, @treeworkenvironmentalpractice @tma_environmental_consultants @lucinsider BCAL Consulting, LVIA Ltd, @ldadesign Matthew Wigan Associates LTD, Jon Sheaff and Associates @blakedownlandscapes @groundcontrolgc Waterwise Solutions LTD @payestoneworkandrestoration @arcadisarchitecture #LIAwards2025 #LandscapeArchitecture #GreenwichPark #UrbanDesign #Heritage #DesignTeam #TheRoyalParks

Natural materials + Passivhaus design = Healthy Buildings Follow our mini-series as we share our latest insights, from our indoor air quality expert and Perform+ consultant Chryssa Thoua. These stem from 5 years of PhD research, monitoring 4 Architype buildings, benchmarked against UK data.

From paper to Passivhaus, we’re telling the story of Currie Community High School and how we designed this extraordinary building. In Part 1 of his blog series, Jorge Barreno Cardiel shares how the brief for this impressive new school was set, including community needs, pedagogical theory and stringent energy requirements. Read the full story on our blog. 🔗 in bio 📸 BK Photography

𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲! Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of the new Safe Schools for the Future Guidance.  The date-rich report offers new guidance for project teams so the UK can rapidly upscale the benefits from the high-health, high-comfort, high-performance, low-impact benefits that timber frame primary schools can offer. Over on the blog, associate and co-author Seb Laan Lomas shares why this guidance is essential for anyone looking to procure, design or build a school in the future. 🔗 in bio 📸 @jackhobhouse

We’re always excited to see a new building come to life, but the opening of Currie Community High School is a milestone we’re especially proud of in Architype. It’s our largest project to date, one of the first Passivhaus secondary schools in Scotland, and home to our very first Passivhaus swimming pool — among the first in the UK. The whole project is the result of over 40 years of Architype’s expertise in sustainable design, setting a new benchmark for low-energy, future-focused schools. Keep an eye out on our website for more updates about this brilliant new school.

As part of British Science Week, our team visited Mulberry Academy London Dock, the recently completed Passivhaus secondary school, to explore how science shapes the buildings we design. With Year 7 students, Hugh Pearce and Kim Huynh ran the #IceBoxChallenge, using thermal imaging and a hands-on experiment to demonstrate how insulation and airtightness help their school retain heat in winter and stay cool in summer. A highlight from Kim and Hughs presentation: “As architects we are trying to improve the world around us, and science has a big part to play in that. I love science and use it every day to improve the quality of the spaces we spend so much of our time in – buildings!”

Last night, Hannah Dalton attended the opening of If Bricks Could Talk - a powerful exhibition exploring the emotional and historical value of materials in the built environment. We’re proud to have contributed a stone from Liberton Nursery, a retrofit project for a Victorian nursery in Edinburgh, which is featured as part of the exhibition. The project reflects our ongoing commitment to reuse, care, and designing with the future in mind. Now open to the public, the Edinburgh Architectural Association (EAA) exhibition invites us to see building materials not as static resources, but as carriers of memory and agents in shaping what’s to come. 📍 Mote102, Ferry Road, Edinburgh, EH6 4PG 🗓️ 6th - 9th June from 10am–5pm 🎟 No tickets required Thank you to all of the volunteers that organised the exhibition from the EAA as part of the 2025 Architecture Fringe. The exhibition includes features from: Groves-Raines Architects Studios / Loader Monteith Architects / Simpson & Brown / LDN Architects / Bennetts Associates / Lorn Macneal Architects / RKA Architectural Design Studio / MLA / Collective Architecture / Fraser/Livingstone Architects

Next Tuesday, our co-owners Sam Boyle and Ann-Marie Fallon will be speaking at Collaborate for Net Zero, hosted by CIBSE, IStructE and RIAS. They’ll be presenting Riverside Primary School - Scotland’s first Passivhaus certified school sharing insights into how thoughtful design, low-energy performance, and inclusive learning environments can help shape a Net Zero future for education. 📅 Tuesday 10 June 2025 📍 The Engine Shed, Stirling ⏰ 10:00–16:00 (Registration from 10:15am) 🔗 Register: Via the link in our bio We are really looking forward to contributing to what promises to be a valuable day of shared learning and collaboration across the built environment.

We’re proud to share that Architype has been shortlisted for AJ100 Architectural Practice of the Year 2025! As one of just six practices recognised, this nomination reflects the dedication of our co-owners across our studios, who continue to push the boundaries of sustainable architecture, collaborative practice, and architecture that performs for people and planet. It’s a real honour to be acknowledged alongside such inspiring peers. Congratulations to everyone shortlisted! Read the full shortlist via the Architects' Journal - link in our bio!

We are super proud to share that one of Architype’s talented co-owners Jemma Ho, has been shortlisted for the AJ100 New Talent Award! 🎉 Since joining Architype in 2021, Jemma has brought energy, creativity and curiosity to everything she’s worked on, from helping deliver Scotland’s first Passivhaus primary school, to supporting a major research project focused on unlocking the potential of home-grown timber. We are thrilled to see Jemma recognised among such an exciting cohort of emerging talent. Read more on the shortlist here: /news/emerging-architects-recognised-in-aj100-new-talent-shortlist-2 1. AJ100 New Talent shortlist article 2. Jemma and other volunteers clay plastering at Llama Croft 3. Jemma's Masters Design Thesis featured in 2024 RSAW's Touchstone

We are ending the week with incredible news that Riverside Primary School won three awards at the RIAS Awards 2025 last night: 🏆 An overall RIAS Award (one of just 11 awarded) 🏆 Client of the Year – Perth & Kinross Council 🏆 Sustainability Award As Scotland’s first Passivhaus-certified school, Riverside is setting a powerful precedent, not only for low-energy performance, but for what a joyful, healthy learning environment can be. Bringing together nursery, primary and intensive support provision under one roof, the school is filled with light, calm, and generous spaces that put the wellbeing of students and staff at the centre. Outdoor classrooms, a secret garden, and warm, tactile materials come together to create a nurturing space where young people can thrive. The judges described it as: “An exemplary school project, which will serve as an inspiring model for the design of schools in Scotland and across the UK.” Huge congratulations to our client Perth & Kinross Council, and to our project collaborators: Perth & Kinross Council | Robertson Group | Hub East Central Scotland | BakerHicks | Goodson Associates | Atelier Ten | Sandy Brown | Kirk and Marsh Ltd | rankinfraser landscape architecture llp | Warm: Low Energy Building Practice - and many 📷 - David Barbour

The good news continues with The Entopia Building being recognised with three awards at the RIBA East Awards 2025! 🏅 RIBA East Award 🏅 Sustainability Award 🏅 Project Architect of the Year – awarded to Wendy Bishop and Mark Martines The jury commented: "Energy use is astonishingly low. Acoustic surfaces and triple glazing mean that any noise from the buses and cars on the street outside is totally silenced. Altogether, the scheme asks us to choose what we really want when it comes to retrofitting a building: a coherent new aesthetic appearance, or else the best possible environmental principles and performance? Cambridge University regards Entopia as its standard-bearer for a more sustainable estates policy." These awards celebrate not just an exceptional retrofit, but the people and collaborative effort behind it. The Entopia Building is one of the world’s first to combine EnerPHit, BREEAM Outstanding, and WELL Gold standards, delivering radical energy and carbon reductions, and a truly people-centred workplace. We’re incredibly proud of the team and grateful to our brilliant collaborators who helped make this possible: John French | Wendy Bishop | Peter Kelly | Anna Nitch-Smith | 3pm Project Management | Eve Waldron Design | Feilden+Mawson | BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd) | Max Fordham LLP | Envision Energy | Gardiner & Theobald LLP | MEAD Consulting Ltd | Cambridge Architectural Research and multiple other supply partners. 📷 – Entopia Internal - Jack Hobhouse