Forest Road

 

Forest Road

 

The Rock

 

The Rock

 

Gateway West

 

Gateway West

 

Gateway West

 

55 Leroy Street

 

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

Director Jay Gort is selected to join the new Oxford Design Review Panel

As a member of the panel, Jay joins a diverse range of disciplines with significant experience and knowledge of the design and delivery of high-quality development. With expert knowledge of Oxford, its opportunities and constraints and the city’s aspirations.

 The Oxford Design Review panel was set up in 2020 in partnership with Oxford City Council to provide pre-application design advice to applicants and Oxford City Council. Gort Scott has worked on projects of varying scale within Oxford, including a masterplan for Grade II listed Oxford Covered Market, a transformative development for St Hilda’s College, and Oxford North life sciences laboratory.

Planning approval secured for more than 300 affordable homes at Silverton Quays in the Royal Docks

Our proposals for 326 new affordable homes and ten townhouses at Silvertown were approved by Newham Council Planning Committee. 

The development is a key element in an early phase of the £3.5 billion programme led by The Silvertown Partnership – in conjunction with the Greater London Authority and Homes England – to regenerate 50 acres within the Royal Docks Opportunity Area in Newham. Founded on the area’s rich industrial heritage, the diverse Silvertown neighbourhood will form a vibrant new centre for the Royal Docks and Newham, bringing around 6,500 new homes, 500,000 sq.ft of leisure space, 1,200,000 sq.ft of workspace, and a high quality public realm and network of green spaces.

Our work was informed by our knowledge and expertise about High Streets and public spaces, and a desire to create a characterful and successful new neighbourhood with plentiful opportunities for social integration and interaction. The development forms a significant part of the western boundary of the masterplan – knitting into the existing fabric of Silvertown, introducing new neighbourhood connections, and creating welcoming public spaces for the whole community. 

Construction is due to commence in the autumn.

Health on the High Street: Discussions and Findings

Locating healthcare on the High Street makes health services more accessible to users and delivers considerable social, economic, commercial and environmental benefits to the place. It is happening, but not widely. Gort Scott and Fleet Architects have been working with key high street and NHS stakeholders to define the issues and actions to make it happen. Here is a short PDF document of our findings in 2024, with a summary below. We will be continuing to push this forward in 2025. 

Health on the High Street: 2024 Findings and Actions

[1] There is an overarching need to integrate NHS Strategy with Urban Design. 
[2] There is an absence of healthcare uses, with differing benefits and risks, in National Planning Policy. 
[3] There is need for greater emphasis on longer term wider social and economic value over short term financial cost. 
[4] The internal obstacles within the NHS limit agility and capacity to react to opportunities. 
[5] The complexity of the stakeholdersgroup has highlighted a need for leadership from a lead organisation.
[6] Unlocking the viability of the NHS as an anchor tenant to commercial landlords.
[7] Some NHS Trusts are moving health to the high streets, but by stealth, when it should be national policy and championed. 
[8] Absence of data - There is a pressing need for research to prove the concept and maximise the benefits in application. 
[9] High streets remain places of opportunity as we enter 2025 and for the longer term future of our towns.

Thank you to all who have contributed to our discussions in 2024: Carolina Eboli, Associate Director, PRD; Rick Fentiman, CEO, SHS Holdings & Health Spaces; Valentin Gheorghian, Design Manager, Health Spaces; Lucy Gardner, Deputy Director Strategy and Partnership, Warrington and Halton NHS FT; Hannah Haddad, Head of Strategic Applications, L.B of Hounslow; Kara Marshall, Director of Corporate Delivery, University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire; Andrej Mecava, Principal Urban Designer, L.B of Hounslow; Filippa Mudd, Associate Partner, FMX Urban Property Advisors; Iain Nicholson, Founder of The Vacant Shops Academy; Eugene Prinsloo, Development Director, Community Health Partnerships; Tim Rettler, Greater London Authority; Mark Robinson, Chair of the High Streets Task Force and New River; Marc Sansom, Healthy Cities & Salus Global Knowledge Exchange; Magali Thompson, Project Lead for Placemaking, Great Ormond Street Hospital; Matthew Tulley, Redevelopment Director, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Michael Wood, Head of Health Economic Partnerships, NHS Confederation.

Director Jay Gort delivers lecture at London Metropolitan University

Director, Jay Gort was invited by London Met to speak as part of a lecture series organised by Metropolitan Architecture Student Society (MASS). Jay was tasked with responding to the theme of ‘Optimism’. He structured the talk around 3 compelling “Reasons to be cheerful”.

1. Adventures in retrofit: Jay shared his experience of re-imagining and repurposing existing buildings and pieces of cities, such as Gort Scott’s work on Walthamstow Town Hall.

2. The urban block: The incredible capacities and capabilities of the London block, drawing on Gort Scott’s pioneering research involving high streets and town centres.

3. A shared journey: Highlighting the potentials of the studio environment as a context for care and collaboration.

The lecture was open to students, alumni and the public. Thank you to MASS for the invitation, and thank you to those who attended.




 

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

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