What we’ve made
Little Barton Farmhouse, Kent
Little Barton is a Grade II listed farmhouse and outbuildings that needed modernisation. Our client wished to undertake an extensive programme of refurbishment, together with conversion of redundant outbuildings into living accommodation, and the demolition and replacement of an existing garage.
Ashford Gateway
The Ashford Gateway was commissioned by Kent County Council and Ashford Borough Council to house an array of public services, including a library, adult education centre, register office and café. The call was for an iconic and energy-efficient new civic building which would relate to its urban context and the adjacent Town Centre Conservation Area.
Road Chef (Various Locations)
Refurbishment and extension of one of their service stations in the South East. This includes working with a number of retail and food / beverage providers, as well as the surrounding buildings.
Bose House
Development and refurbishment of BOSE house to create a collaborative serviced office environment in the former HQ of BOSE, Chatham, Kent. Made Architects were involved in the RIBA Stage 4 design and subsequent on-site delivery with Ash Construction.
Gretton School
Made Architects, in collaboration with LXA Projects, worked closely with Gretton School through RIBA Stages 4-6 to design and deliver new specialist SEN classrooms, administration and meeting spaces within the existing school and a new-build Reception Main Entrance with additional visitor parking.
Residential Development, West London
In 2021, a private developer approached us to carry out the feasibility design for a sliver of disused, wooded and overgrown land adjacent to a railway. Our work necessitated extensive discussions with several bodies, especially the Local Authority. The proposals have been taken forward to a full planning application.
Brecknock, Tunbridge Wells
Located in Camden Park, a historic residential Conservation Area in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Brecknock is a significant three-storey house. It was designed to provide a five-bedroom family home which fits comfortably within its Arcadian setting. Previously unsuccessful applications for a new house on the site meant that our design had to address concerns raised by planners and Conservation Officers.
Residential Apartments
Made Architects have proposed a significant landmark building, three to five stories high, providing just under 100 dwellings. With close proximity to the coast on three sides of the site, made Architects have proposed a modern and iconic set of apartments that offer large outside terraces and sea views. This proposal will be a feature building within the local context.
Bradfields Academy SEND Teaching Block
Working for a contractor under design-and-build procurement, the new block for Bradfields Academy in Medway comprises 12 new classrooms for children with special needs and disabilities, specialist teaching rooms, a library and two large activity teaching spaces.
Valley Invicta Primary School, Kings Hill
Valley Invicta Primary School is a new school that was built to provide additional school places for families moving into new residential developments at Kings Hill, a modern and expanding garden village in Kent. The design had to be future-proofed for enlargement to a three-form entry school, with the construction taking place in two phases. The completed first phase provided a one-form entry school with special educational needs provision for children on the autism spectrum. A future phase will expand the school to three-form entry, to accommodate extra places that will be required as Kings Hill grows.
Frittenden School, Kent
Frittenden CofE Primary School is a small, rural school which is Grade II listed. The school buildings did not meet government design guidance, and this made it difficult to meet the requirements of Ofsted and Every Child Matters.
La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls’ School, London
After the successful completion of the refurbishment of a science block and a new resource centre, La Retraite RC Girls’ School in Clapham Park invited Burns Guthrie to prepare designs for a new Movement, Music and Dance building. The building includes dance and drama suites with their own separate entrances, two music classrooms, changing rooms and staff offices.
Crutches Farm
Crutches Farm is a historic farmstead located in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This collection of dilapidated and disused agricultural buildings sits within the curtilage of a Grade II listed farmhouse but does little to enhance the setting of the listed building. Burns Guthrie were part of a team appointed to examine the refurbishment and possible conversion of the buildings, which include an oast, a fattening lodge, a stable and a timber-frame barn, to residential or leisure use.
Duncton School, West Sussex
In 2017, West Sussex County Council commissioned Burns Guthrie to carry out feasibility studies for 14 schools. In the case of Duncton, the challenge was to design a new school to amalgamate the existing and separate infant and junior schools into one new school. This involved extensive discussions with both schools, the Local Education Authority and the Diocese. It was important that the design inspired and won approval from all stakeholders and had to allow the school to operate during construction work.
St Bernadette’s Church, West Kingsdown
The church approached us to design an extension that could accommodate a small church hall and associated facilities, complete with its own entrance. The challenge was to prepare a design which represented a logical extension of the existing form and that sat comfortably in its context.
South East Coast Ambulance Centre
Made Architects have been appointed to redesign the internal layout and interior spaces within South East Coast Ambulance call centre. This will bring an increase in functionality to the space and promote the wellbeing of the staff that use the space.
Growforth Plant Market Garden Centre
We are appointed to work with Lusori Group and ElevenOne Cornwall to develop the technical design of this extension to the Growforth Plant Market, Dunfermline. This pre-fabricated, container building comprises retail use; cafe; kitchen; seating / social areas (within a covered courtyard, on the container roof top and within the containers themselves); and support facilities including preparation, stores and visitor facilities.
Abingdon House School
Made Architects Limited have been instructed to review the opportunities at Abingdon House School to develop options for the school extension to accommodate an increase in the cohort of one class per year.
Chalk Lane
Made Architects are working with Vulcan Ellis providing technical advisory services during the construction phase of this extension and conversion of the historic grade 2 listed pub and hotel to 21 town houses and apartments. The scheme involves careful detailing with the historic fabric to create contemporary dwellings within this town centre site in the London Borough of Epsom. Alongside the building there will be landscaped gardens, parking and paths all carefully integrated within the established trees on site
Rutherford School
Development proposing new fully accessible and controlled entrance, new classroom, replacement therapy pool and therapy spaces for Rutherford school’s (special educational needs) 18-25 year cohort and wider community use.