Enduring projects for a changing world

Forest Road

Enduring projects for a changing world

Forest Road

Enduring projects for a changing world

The Rock

Enduring projects for a changing world

The Rock

Enduring projects for a changing world

Gateway West

Enduring projects for a changing world

Gateway West

Enduring projects for a changing world

Gateway West

Enduring projects for a changing world

55 Leroy Street

Enduring projects for a changing world

St Hilda’s College

Oxford North

Best-in-class laboratory building for life sciences

Announcements

Major expansion of pioneering Girton College Cambridge

Announcements

Gort Scott is now a Certified B Corporation

Sustainability

Gateway West achieves a BREEAM rating of Outstanding

Awards

Unity Place shortlisted for RIBA Neave Brown Award 2024

Event

Mayor of London visits Three Mills Studios

Three Mills Studios

New creative spaces for iconic TV and film production studios in East London

Waltham Forest Town Hall & Assembly Hall

Flexible working and event spaces for Waltham Forest’s listed Town Hall and Assembly Hall

Sustainability

Read our Retrofit Manifesto, produced for London Festival of Architecture

Feature

A First Look at Bridge Avenue Mansions Retrofit

St Hilda’s Oxford

Transformative front of house development for St Hilda’s Oxford riverside site

The Rock

A private residence perched upon a rocky outcrop in Whistler

Feature

Integrated Technology Action Group

51 Hills Road

The greenest office in Cambridge

Feature

Planning consent granted for City of London retrofit scheme

Gainsford Road

Affordable starter homes on a site with an Arts and Crafts legacy

Studio

Read about our ethics, principles and our people, here.

Approach

Commitment to the Environment

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Values-Driven Working

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News

Our in-house Passivhaus expertise grows, with Joe Crawford becoming the latest in the practice to become a Certified Passivhaus Designer

Congratulations to Joe Crawford, who recently became a Certified Passivhaus Designer. Joe will build on our knowledge and expertise in designing energy-efficient buildings. He joins Jonathan Mann and Paul Wild in Gort Scott’s Passivhaus team, spreading best practice on all projects through our in-house training and reviews. This ever-growing expertise demonstrates our commitment to low carbon design.

Designing buildings to Passivhaus standards involves creating spaces that achieve exceptional energy efficiency, comfort, health and wellbeing by minimising energy use for heating and cooling and creating a stable, high quality internal environment. This is achieved through meticulous yet creative design, high-performance but practical construction, and enthusiastic collaboration with our clients, specialists and contractors.

Gort Scott is currently working on a £60m Passivhaus scheme for Girton College, Cambridge.

Introducing our new tagline: ‘Enduring projects for a changing world’

Enduring projects for a changing world

In changing social, environmental and economic contexts, we make projects with an enduring presence, influence or legacy whether they are buildings, temporary projects or long term strategies. Primarily, places endure when they are loved; so common to all our projects is care for people’s experience of the place, permeating all scales from the city to the detail.

RIBA Future Architects: Gort Scott leads a building tour for mentees

This month we had the pleasure of hosting architecture students from the University of Westminster for a tour of our affordable housing project 458 Forest Road in Walthamstow.

The tour - led by Architect Benjamin Carter - forms part of the RIBA Future Architects programme, where we pair Gort Scott mentors with Year 3 BA Architecture students at universities across the UK, supporting future and emerging architects.

The initiative is part of our broader outreach programme, which includes workshops, work experience, internships and mentoring, and covers all ages from primary education through to adults in work.

Thanks to Pocket Living and the Forest Road residents.

Directors Jay Gort and Fiona Scott deliver Architecture on Stage talk at the Barbican

Directors Jay Gort and Fiona Scott were invited by the Architecture Foundation to deliver the latest talk in the Architecture on Stage series.

The lecture, titled What Matters, reflected on how they practice architecture in a changing world. They structured the presentation around four key questions that drive the work that comes out of the practice:

1. What role does design play in the urban block?
2. Should we be building at all?
3. Can we be both bold and contextual?
4. Is it possible to create - in reality - the settings we imagine?

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Barbican last week. It was a privilege to share the questions and ideas that have shaped our work over the years. A recording will be available soon via the Architecture Foundation.

Thank you to the Barbican, Ellis Woodman and the Architecture Foundation for the invitation.
 

Many architects, through their work, create art and alter environments. A few, like Gort Scott, transform lives.

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