Gort Scott and 5th Studio’s contribution to the Olympic Park Legacy, Pudding Mill Lane, has been featured in the NLA Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: Living, Learning, Legacy report.

This new report examines the vision, purpose and challenges behind Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and spotlights projects which are integral to the ongoing Olympic Legacy and regeneration of East London.

Pudding Mill Lane is a long-term development set for completion in 2031, proposing a thriving new town centred around an overground station and providing 900 new homes, 40% of which will be affordable housing, and 36,000 sqm of employment space.

Local contexts have been a priority in designing Pudding Mill Lane, with thorough consultations taking place with local people and businesses, and workshops being organised with Local Youth Voice.

Read more about Pudding Mill Lane and the Olympic Legacy here.

Fiona Scott will be a part of Brent Cross Town, a panel at this year’s London Real Estate Forum. She will be in conversation about Related Argent Related and Brent Council’s upcoming regeneration of Brent Cross through the lens of LREF 2022. The long-term functionality of cities and urban spaces and what infrastructure and governance systems will underpin and co-ordinate them is up for consideration.

As a Mayor’s Design Advocate Fiona is closely involved in pioneering high street research, masterplanning and strategy projects. She works with developers and public authorities to support the evolution of places through design and integration with social and economic contexts.

Related Argent and Brent Council are working together to bring 6,700 homes and 3 million sq ft of office space to the new Brent Cross Town which will be set around 50 acres of parks and playing fields. With local park amenities being highly desirable, and 11 million of the working population within a 90-minute commute, demand for space at Brent Cross Town is high but what are the essentials needed to build a new town?

With speakers:

Sadie Morgan, Co-Founding Director, dRMM

Tom Goodall, Partner and Head of Residential, Related Argent

Matt Flood, Office Lead, Related Argent

Fiona Scott, Director, Gort Scott

Cath Shaw, Deputy Chief Executive, Barnet Council

28th Sept, 12pm, Frobisher Auditorium 2, Barbican

Unity Place and Fellowship Square, Phase 2 have been shortlisted for the NLA Awards 2022 in the Housing and Mixed Use categories.

We are happy to have projects so rooted in community engagement, urban planning and retrofit recognised by the New London Architecture Awards.

Congratulations to all of our collaborators:

Unity Place: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, and Brent Council

Fellowship Square: Metropolitan Workshop, London Borough of Waltham Forest and Countryside

We have completed the first six apartments within an Edwardian Mansion in LB Fulham and Hammersmith.

Gort Scott have been appointed by Dorrington to retrofit Quenington Mansion and Bridge Avenue Mansion. The two blocks are sited within Central Fulham and Hammersmith Town Hall Conservation Areas, respectively.

The proposals seek to upgrade the thermal and acoustic performance of the buildings by sensitively insulating the exterior walls and roof while also upgrading the single glazed exterior windows and door. Internally strategic incisions and alterations have been made to open and improve the existing apartment layouts, in addition to improvements to the shared amenity spaces. We will be upgrading shared amenity spaces and making each apartment fully accessible, as well as improving the thermal, acoustic, and fire performances.

Working carefully with the existing structure, the vast majority of the interior building fabric has been retained whilst strategic incisions and alterations have been made to open and improve the existing apartment layouts in line with current standards.

The next phase of the project has commenced and includes the upgrading of exterior balconies, with the remaining work currently slated for 2023.

Gort Scott has been invited to host on the 15th of September Open House Festival’s walking tour of South Kilburn regeneration project Unity Place, alongside Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, Grant Associates and Emma Sweeney, Brent Council.

The project is part of a 26 year scheme for South Kilburn and has recently been shortlisted for the Building Awards Housing Project of the Year, AJ Awards Housing Project, WAF Awards Best Housing of the Year, and British Home Awards Best Housing Partnership.

Find out more and book your space here.

The Building Awards has shortlisted St Hilda’s College for Project of the year, and Unity Place for Housing Project of the Year.

The Building Awards recognises the best in design, architecture and construction across the UK. This year’s judging panel including Philippa Simpson, Director of Design, Estate and Public Programme at V&A; Vanessa Murray, Asset Manager at Stanhope; and Lanre Gbolade, Co-Founder & Director at Gbolade Design Studio.

Congratulations to Beard for their work on St Hilda’s and to our collaborators at Feilden Clegg Bradley and Alison Brooks Architects for this celebration of our work on Unity Place.

Winners to be announced at an awards ceremony on 1st November.

On a prominent crossroads corner at the heart of Walthamstow, a series of disused ground floor spaces have been lovingly refurbished to create a new cultural and creative enterprise hub serving the local community.

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Unity Place and St Hilda’s College have been shortlisted for the AJ Awards 2022 in the categories Housing Project and Higher Education under £20m.

The awards encompass projects of all scales and celebrate the best in architecture across 17 diverse categories.

Huge congratulations to our Unity Place collaborators Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Alison Brooks Architects.

Winners to be announced at a celebratory event in London on 23rd November.

Jay Gort and Fiona Scott have been invited by the Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT) to deliver the annual RIBA Lecture which marks the launch of Oxford Open Doors, Friday 9 September 2022. With previous RIBA Lectures having been given by Alison Brooks, Jim Eyre and Niall McLaughlin; we are looking forward to becoming part of an ongoing discussion.

The lecture, Found Resonance, will centre on Gort Scott’s work for St Hilda’s College as well as other projects in London, Oxford and internationally. Presenting an insight into how we use informed architecture to stitch cities together, create accord, craft actively, feed friendships, imagine futures, and circulate limited resources effectively.

For 15 years OPT have been running Oxford Open Doors, an annual weekend which allows the public access to private buildings in a celebration of heritage and culture across the city.

Gort Scott took advantage of the last week’s good weather to spend some time away from the office on a Big Day Out organised by our in-house social crew GS Life.

Kicking off with a tour of our nearly completed White City office project, Gateway West, we explored the characterful brickwork envelope and low-tech carbon reduction methods used. We then made our way over to the Serpentine to see Theaster Gates’ Black Chapel Pavilion and ended the day with a picnic and games in Hyde Park (which quickly became a little competitive).

Gort Scott’s office culture is key to the success of the practice and it has always been prioritised. We regularly organise team activities, especially when we’ve gained new people, to ensure everyone feels supported and a part of the team. GS Life events are an integral part of our holistic approach to health and wellbeing in the studio alongside our mentorship programme, trained mental health first aiders and commitment to staff’s professional development.

Won through invited competition in November 2021, Gort Scott are developing proposals for the Royal Borough of Greenwich to adapt, refurbish, and remodel the ground floor of Grade 2 listed Royal Arsenal Gatehouse, Woolwich. Following successful collaboration in the design of Three Mills Studios we are working in collaboration with Momentum, OR Consulting and Appleyard & Trew. The project is being delivered as a part of wider proposals with LDA, Studio Weave and Turner Works, funded by the Future High Streets Fund and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities, which will see the centre of Woolwich entirely transformed.

The priority for this project will be sensitive restoration of original features and refurbishment of the historic fabric of the building, which will also improve its environmental performance. New additions will be made to the east and west of the building to address untidy remnants from when the building was severed from the Arsenal’s corpus during the building of the Plumstead Road.

These new elements will reference the historic architecture of the Arsenal and provide new public faces to adjacent spaces with interventions across the ground floor which will improve the building’s relationship to the surrounding context and introduce publicly accessible functions.

Overall integration with the wider public realm will establish links through to the new Elizabeth Line station, improving the connection between the Royal Arsenal site and Woolwich town centre.

Gort Scott has been working with WATMOS Community Homes and Community-Led Housing London to develop a series of strategies for the sensitive redevelopment of sheltered housing at Ethelred Estate, Lambeth. The primary focus of this process has been to ensure existing residents of the estate feel confident and secure in the upcoming changes to their homes. This has been achieved by working closely with the community steering group and in-depth discussions with the wider Ethelred community.

The development aims to improve the standard and scale of living for existing residents whilst also providing some additional social and private tenure housing. Gort Scott have proposed options for retrofit as a means to reduce embodied carbon whilst also addressing the history and geography of the area, proposing to reinstate a beneficial through road which has been cut-off by previous development.

“Gort Scott impressed us from the off with their experience and attitude to community led projects. The Gort Scott team were brilliant in assisting us to develop ideas, and really flexible in working with us on adapting the project and facilitating additional services with third parties. Their interaction with residents and project team was professional and friendly, and even fun!” - Watmos

Gort Scott have been shortlisted for Higher Education Architect of the Year and Refurbishment Architect of the Year in the AYA Awards. We are proud to have been shortlisted alongside so many friends and aspirational practices.

Acknowledgment of our work in refurbishment and retrofit seems particularly pertinent during this time of climate emergency as we take steps to reduce our embodied carbon impact.

Winners to be announced 18th October, London.

15 years into our venture as Gort Scott we want to thank our team as they grow with us and embody our values to be conscious of impact, to engage with the context of environment, to value relationships, to cultivate curiosity, and to bring joy.

“The project really is Gort Scott, that’s all the people and all the collaborators … and it’s an ongoing thing, about the processes more than it is the answer, it’s about the line of enquiry and collaborations and keeping that spirit alive within us all here.” - Jay Gort

“It’s more and more apparent to us that it’s not just about the relationships we have with clients and collaborators but also about the friendships that we have with you all as well, and that’s what makes it worthwhile for us” - Fiona Scott

Gort Scott, Feilden Clegg Bradley, and Alison Brooks Architects’ social housing scheme Unity Place has been shortlisted for both WAF Awards 2022 as Best Housing of the Year and British Home Awards 2022 in the category Best Housing Partnership.

The development forms part of the second stage of South Kilburn’s Regeneration Programme which aims to deliver 2400 new homes. The low to mid-rise scheme provides high-density housing in buildings that positively engage with their surroundings and residents. Thorough consultations held with residents of the existing site we ensured the provision of homes which would serve the families living in them. The interactive workshops created a tailored approach to the delivery of culturally appropriate homes.

British Home Awards 2022 will be announced on 30th September and WAF Awards 2022 ceremony will take place in Lisbon on the 30th of November.