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

Explore

Values-Driven Working

Explore

News

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

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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

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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.
 

Forest Road shortlisted for Housing Design Awards 2025

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Forest Road is shortlisted for the 2025 Housing Design Awards in the Affordable Housing category. Gort Scott and Pocket Living will host a building tour for the judging panel in April.

Forest Road provides 90 affordable one-bedroom homes for local first-time buyers in Walthamstow, on a prominent site opposite Lloyd Park and the William Morris Gallery — the Grade II* listed former home of the Arts and Crafts activist. The building achieves a high density of affordable housing within a predominantly low-rise context, with sensitivity to neighbouring terraced housing. A third of the homes were sold off-plan within five months, reflecting high demand for affordable, community-oriented housing in the area. Almost 50% of the homes have been sold to people who live or work in the borough. Features include large floor to ceiling windows for maximum daylight, ample storage, continuous flooring throughout main living spaces and sensible room proportions. Communal spaces have been integrated into the design to foster a sense of community and wellbeing. Two roof terraces with park views, a south-facing communal courtyard and a lobby area serve as welcoming, shared environments where residents can relax and socialise. 

Director Fiona Scott presents lecture at Architektur Salon Hamburg

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Director Fiona Scott was invited by the Fritz Schumacher Gesellschaft to speak in Hamburg for the final event in a series of lectures at the Architektur Salon Hamburg titled MAGISTRALEN, which coincide with the launch of the city’s Magistralen Masterplan. 

Hamburg’s Magistralen are a series of important arterial roads, and the masterplan aims to turn them into more vibrant urban spaces. Main roads are the spatial backbone in Hamburg and a key focus of the urban development in the coming decades.

Fiona presented thoughts from Gort Scott’s analysis of urban blocks and streets, ideas on what makes a good high street building based on our public, workspace and community building projects, our Old Oak masterplan, civic buildings and housing.

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

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