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Central Foundation Boys’ School

Bright futures

People standing outside the Central Foundation Boys School

Creating state-of-the-art educational facilities in a heritage context.

Over the last 150 years, seven buildings (including a Grade II listed former county court and the Tabernacle Chapel) had been brought together in one school campus around a central courtyard. The result was a hotch-potch of spaces, increasingly under-utilised and inefficient.

We replaced the less suitable buildings with state-of-the-art general and specialist teaching facilities and improved the efficiency of the remaining buildings through targeted and sensitive refurbishment.

The school now has a new science laboratory, a partially subterranean sports hall in the courtyard and a Creative Arts Centre in the Tabernacle Chapel.

Our new cohesive campus provides the school with facilities which reflect and support its commitment to excellence; a bigger and better school for future generations on the same tight inner-city site.

Man wearing a lab coat in laboratory at Central Foundation Boys School
Detail interior shot inside of Central Foundation Boys School
Hawkins\Brown marry great design vision with a committed and steady eye for detail. This has both given us a hugely exciting design and kept this most challenging of projects moving forward.

Project details

Project name: Central Foundation Boys’ School

Location: London, UK

Service: Briefing and estates optimisation, Environmental Intelligence

Value: £20M – £50M

Scope: Architecture, Masterplanning, Interior design

Clients: Central Foundation

Status: Live

Structural / civil engineer: BDP

MEP services engineer: BDP

Planning consultant: Montagu Evans

Landscape architect: BDP

BREEAM consultant: BDP

Fire engineer: The Fire Surgery

Project manager: Gardiner & Theobald

Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald

Awards

New London Awards 2024
Peoples' Choice Award - Winner

Civic Trust Award 2024
Winner

Education Estates Award 2024
School of the Year - Winner

AJ Architecture Awards 2024
School of the Year - Winner

If you want to know more about our education and research work, contact Negar Mihanyar

If you want to know more about our education and research work, contact Julia Roberts