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

Dome House workspace project now complete

We have completed the renovation and upgrade of Dome House, a heritage building in Spitalfields. The project restores and adapts the structure to provide flexible workspace in the City of London.

Dome House features a cranked roof with a glazed lantern atop to draw in natural light. The dome, previously hidden by a false ceiling has been revealed and restored.

Interiors are overhauled, including the reordering and re-imagining of internal spaces as well as upgrading the building fabric. The CAT A fit-out strategy embraces flexibility, accommodating multiple working arrangements and spatial configurations. This robust base-build approach ensures the space can adapt to diverse occupant needs and future fit-out scenarios while maintaining the integrity of the historic structure.

A modest rooftop extension accommodates a new staircase leading to a roof terrace, providing occupants with panoramic views across the Artillery Passage Conservation Area. The extension is constructed in a lightweight timber frame, which helps to minimise the structural loading on the existing building and reduces the embodied carbon impact.

Read more on the Dome House project page.

Forest Road is shortlisted for the AJ Architecture Awards 2025

Forest Road is shortlisted for the AJ Architecture Awards 2025 in the Housing category. The panel of judges will visit the building in September, in a tour led by the project architect, Andrew Tam.

The project delivers 90 affordable one-bedroom homes for local first-time buyers in Walthamstow, on a prominent site opposite Lloyd Park and the William Morris Gallery. Inspired by the curved bay windows of the William Morris Gallery, lintels are gently concave to catch soft shadows that animate with changing light. The material palette contains a mix of warm white, grey, plum, pink and red tones acknowledging the diverse colours of surrounding buildings.

Forest Road wins a Housing Design Award 2025

Forest Road has won a Completed Scheme Award in the 2025 Housing Design Awards. 

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. 

Associate Sela-Jaymes Taylor gains Specialist Conservation Architect accreditation

Congratulations to Gort Scott Associate Sela-Jaymes Taylor on her recent accreditation as a Specialist Conservation Architect.

This achievement builds on her leadership of our Heritage and Retrofit Group and her praised work on numerous historic buildings and structures, including those at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and 3 Mills Studios, with the latter earning her a shortlisting for the 2024 MJ Long Prize. Currently, Sela is utilising her expertise on complex refurbishment heritage projects, such as transforming the Grade II listed Woolwich Old Town Hall & Library into artist studios and reimagining the Vestry House Museum in Walthamstow. Additionally, she is overseeing a significant expansion of the Grade II* listed Girton College, Cambridge.

Sela’s accreditation exemplifies thoughtful heritage stewardship, creating dialogue between historic architectural fabric and contemporary community needs through sensitive intervention and adaptive reuse.

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

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