Inspiring students with the Young City Makers Programme

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Inspiring students with the Young City Makers Programme

Helen Murray

Kim Huynh and Joel Boyd have been busy supporting the Young City Makers Programme with Open City over the past few months.

Working with students from St Mary Magdelene's C of E Primary School in Woolwich, the pair have encouraged creativity through architecture-related tasks, including an idea generation workshop at the Olympic Park in Stratford and an awards ceremony at Central Hall in Westminster.

Kim and Joel have shared their experience over on LinkedIn. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/p/eKrmMHSy

Liberton Nursery recognised by the Edinburgh Architectural Association

Our elegant retrofit of Liberton Nursery has been named a finalist in the Edinburgh Architectural Association's 2026 Awards

Liberton Nursery
Schools
Architecture
Material Impacts
Crafting High Performance Retrofit

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Liberton Nursery recognised by the Edinburgh Architectural Association

Helen Murray

21 Sept 2026

A Sustainable Achievement for the Wye Valley Trust's Community Diagnostic and Treatment Centre

Wye Valley Community Diagnostic and Treatment Centre
Care

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A Sustainable Achievement for the Wye Valley Trust's Community Diagnostic and Treatment Centre

Helen Murray

18 Sept 2026

Creating a digital blueprint for the smart home of the future

The smart home of the future is not about more technology. It is about more independence.

Living
Architecture
Building Performance
Building Physics
Client Advice & Support
Material Impacts
Technical Advice

Article

Creating a digital blueprint for the smart home of the future

Kirstin Assheton

15 Sept 2026

Why creativity is essential to SEND design

Associate Director Lee Fordham spoke to SENDsational Futures about designing for students with special educational needs and disabilities

Schools
Architecture

Publication

Why creativity is essential to SEND design

Helen Murray
Lee Fordham

10 Sept 2026

Estate Retrofit Toolkit is a BE-ST Award finalist

The Estate Retrofit Toolkit has been named a finalist in the BE-ST Awards this year amongst a host of industry innovators

Research & Consultancy
Client Advice & Support
EnerPHit informed Retrofit Planning

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Estate Retrofit Toolkit is a BE-ST Award finalist

Helen Murray

9 Sept 2026

Join us at Learning Places Scotland 2026

There's two chances to hear from Architype at Learning Places Scotland this year

Currie Community High School

Event

Join us at Learning Places Scotland 2026

Helen Murray

16 Aug 2026

We're attending the Measure Up Conference 2026

Seb will be sharing findings from our current work in Wales, a heritage decarbonisation pilot

Cultural
Building Performance
Healthier Buildings

Event

We're attending the Measure Up Conference 2026

Helen Murray

13 Aug 2026

Architype's research recognised at the Structural Timber Awards 2026

"A fantastic report that gives much-needed clarity in the current soup of confusion that is designing for fire resistance!"

Safe Timber Schools

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Architype's research recognised at the Structural Timber Awards 2026

Helen Murray

11 Aug 2026

Seb Laan Lomas recently visited The City of Edinburgh Council's Currie Community High School and captured some beautiful shots with the team on a sunny day.

Currie Community High School

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Studio visits: Currie Community High School

Helen Murray

3 Aug 2026

The Estate Retrofit Toolkit is officially live. Watch the recording here

Client Advice & Support
Crafting High Performance Retrofit

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The Estate Retrofit Toolkit is live

Helen Murray

31 Jul 2026

An architect's guide to heatwave resilience

Co-owners Sioned Holland and Dr Chryssa Thoua spoke to RIBA about designing healthy, resilient schools as part of a professional feature educating architects on key strategies.

Mulberry Academy London Docks
Harris Academy Sutton
Hackbridge Primary School
Building Physics
Building Performance
Climate Resilience

Publication

An architect's guide to heatwave resilience

Helen Murray

30 Jul 2026

Inspiring students with the Young City Makers Programme

Encouraging conversations about design, creativity and placemaking with school students

Collaborating With Communities

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Inspiring students with the Young City Makers Programme

Helen Murray

15 Jul 2026

Join us on Thursday 9th July at 1pm as we talk through this innovative new tool that aims to empower local authorities to make real, data-informed decisions about their estates.

Research & Consultancy
Passivhaus
EnerPHit informed Retrofit Planning

Event

Launching the Estate Retrofit Toolkit

Helen Murray

2 Jul 2026

What have we achieved in 5 years? An update to our Climate Action Roadmap 2030

A 5 year summary of our Carbon Roadmap as we look towards 2030

Research & Consultancy
Strategic Advice
Climate Resilience

Article

What have we achieved in 5 years? An update to our Climate Action Roadmap 2030

Helen Murray

30 Jun 2026

Highlighting key events over the next few weeks

Strategic Advice

Event

Upcoming talks: June and July 2026

Helen Murray

29 Jun 2026

Healthy Schools for healthy kids and futures with Woodknowledge Wales

Seb Laan Lomas will be joined by policy makers, manufacturers and education experts as he shares insights from our Safe Timber Schools publication.

Safe Timber Schools
Research & Consultancy

Event

Healthy Schools for healthy kids and futures with Woodknowledge Wales

Helen Murray

29 Jun 2026

How passive design can combat overheating in schools

Sioned Holland shares how intelligent design supports climate resilient schools

Harris Academy Sutton
Mulberry Academy London Docks
Schools
Building Physics
Climate Resilience

Publication

How passive design can combat overheating in schools

Helen Murray

23 Jun 2026

Seb Laan Lomas and Dr Chryssa Thoua will be attending Education Building Wales 2026 sharing key insight into healthy and impactful school design

Safe Timber Schools
Strategic Advice

Event

Education Buildings Wales 2026

Helen Murray

16 Jun 2026

The Estate Retrofit Toolkit has been shorlisted for an AJ100 Award: Climate Initiative of the Year

Research & Consultancy
Client Advice & Support
EnerPHit informed Retrofit Planning

News

Architype shortlisted for AJ100 Award

Helen Murray

12 Jun 2026

Launch of the Smart Home Digital Blueprint – secure your place now

We're excited to support the launch of our collaboration on Envision: the digital blueprint for the smart home of the future with the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre on 2nd June

Living
Research & Consultancy

Event

Launch of the Smart Home Digital Blueprint – secure your place now

Helen Murray

19 May 2026

RAU's Innovation Village granted outline planning

The Royal Agricultural University's new Innovation Village, a low-carbon research, development and entrepreneurship hub, has been granted outline planning

RAU Innovation Village
Higher Education
Passivhaus
Net Zero Carbon Estates Strategies

News

RAU's Innovation Village granted outline planning

Helen Murray

14 May 2026

We're attending the 28th International Passivhaus Conference 2026

This is a must-see presentation for anyone invested in making education estates better for all - for energy, comfort and health.

Schools
Passivhaus
Climate Resilience

Event

We're attending the 28th International Passivhaus Conference 2026

Helen Murray

16 Apr 2026

Join us for the Passivhaus Trust's Retrofit Masterclass

Learn about estate-wide retrofit tools in use, in this practical, data-led course with our industry experts.

Technical Advice
Crafting High Performance Retrofit

Event

Join us for the Passivhaus Trust's Retrofit Masterclass

Helen Murray

7 Apr 2026

What does the UK NZCBS mean to you and your project, now Version 1 is live?

The new standard is a vital re-focusing and puts an emphasis on proof - does your building ‘do what it says on the tin’?

Building Performance
Climate Resilience

Article

What does the UK NZCBS mean to you and your project, now Version 1 is live?

Sebastian Laan Lomas

20 Mar 2026

Riverside wins CIBSE Building Performance Award

Riverside Primary School has been named the CIBSE Education Building of the Year at the 2025 Building Performance Awards.

Riverside Primary School

News

Riverside wins CIBSE Building Performance Award

Helen Murray

10 Mar 2026

Join us at the Sustainable Construction Conference

Join Ann-Marie Fallon as she speaks at the Sustainable Construction Conference, held by Queen's University, Belfast.

The Entopia Building
Working
Material Impacts
Transitioning to a Circular Economy

Event

Join us at the Sustainable Construction Conference

Helen Murray

25 Feb 2026

We are thrilled to celebrate Chyssa Thoua on passing her viva for her PhD research into the total health performance of primary schools in the UK

Research & Consultancy
Material Impacts
Healthier Buildings
Building in Biodiversity
Innovating with Natural Materials

News

Celebrating Chryssa's academic success

Helen Murray

23 Feb 2026

Event: Passivhaus Design in Healthcare with Architects for Health

Join Director Mark Barry as he discusses Passivhaus Design in Healthcare: Healthy Buildings for People and Planet with Architects for Health on 24th February.

Care
Passivhaus
Climate Resilience

Event

Event: Passivhaus Design in Healthcare with Architects for Health

Helen Murray

16 Feb 2026

The Wye Valley Trust Community Diagnostic and Treatment Centre Opens

We’re delighted to announce that this new, patient-focused facility has opened its doors to the public

Wye Valley Community Diagnostic and Treatment Centre
Care

News

The Wye Valley Trust Community Diagnostic and Treatment Centre Opens

Helen Murray

1 Jan 2026

London welcomes architecture students for sustainable roundtable

We were delighted to host a rewarding Q&A session in our London studio last week

Collaborating With Communities

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London welcomes architecture students for sustainable roundtable

Helen Murray

17 Dec 2025

West Park development achieves WELL Residence precertification

West Park, a new purpose-built student accommodation for The University of Exeter, has become the first of its kind to achieve WELL Residence pre-certification.

West Park and Birks Grange Village Student Housing
Living
Healthier Buildings

News

West Park development achieves WELL Residence precertification

Helen Murray

4 Dec 2025

Currie opens, Part 1: The Commitment Brief

The new Currie Community High School in Edinburgh recently opened its doors, making history as one of Scotland’s first Passivhaus secondary schools; a significant milestone in the UK’s low-energy design agenda.

Currie Community High School

Article

Currie opens, Part 1: The Commitment Brief

Jorge Barreno Cardiel

1 Dec 2025

Safe Schools for the Future saw its official launch on 2nd September. Co-author and Architype’s associate Seb Laan Lomas shares an introduction to the guidance.

Schools
Technical Advice

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Launch of Safe Schools for the Future

Sebastian Laan Lomas

5 Sept 2025

Cultivating Reciprocal Connections: Looking Back on a Film Evening with UK Treescapes during Architecture Fringe 2025

Architype’s Edinburgh studio hosted a film evening as part of 2025’s Architecture Fringe welcoming researchers from UK Treescapes, Deirde Heddon and Rachel Clive along with collaborators and members of the public.

News

Cultivating Reciprocal Connections: Looking Back on a Film Evening with UK Treescapes during Architecture Fringe 2025

Architype

26 Aug 2025

Disrupting Circular Conversations: A Deconstruction and Material Reuse Roundtable

Architype welcomed collaborators to our London Studio for a roundtable discussion between actors at key stages of the material reuse journey

The Entopia Building
Transitioning to a Circular Economy

Article

Disrupting Circular Conversations: A Deconstruction and Material Reuse Roundtable

Architype

31 Jul 2025

We’re pleased to have featured in this insightful publication from dRMM on Measuring Mass Timber looking at the environmental and quality of life benefits of timber construction.

Harris Academy Sutton

Publication

Measuring Mass Timber Feature: Harris Academy Sutton

Architype

1 Jul 2025

The Entopia Building has won the Refurbished / Recycled Workplace Award at the British Council for Offices Awards for the Midlands and Central England.

The Entopia Building
Crafting High Performance Retrofit

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Entopia wins a regional BCO Award

Architype

10 May 2025

Architraining: Supporting Young City Makers

Co-owners Aoife Gilchrist, Sioned Holland and Kim Huynh had the privilege of working with a local school through Open City’s Young City Makers programme.

Collaborating With Communities

News

Architraining: Supporting Young City Makers

Aoife Gilchrist
Kim Huynh

10 Apr 2025

We are excited to be co-hosting an event with UK Treescapes researchers Professor Dee Heddon and Dr Rachel Clive on the Monday 9th June at our Edinburgh studio.

Climate Resilience

News

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 Film Evening

Architype

1 Apr 2025

Architectural Designer Jemma Ho reflects on her recent experience on NMITEs newly Timber Engineering Design 12-week course.

Innovating with Natural Materials

Article

Timber: Why it’s worth more investment

Jemma Ho

22 Oct 2024

The Passivhaus Conference 2024 was held in Oxford – a city where historic tradition meets cutting-edge research making it an ideal backdrop for exploring the latest in low-energy design.

Passivhaus

Event

UK Passivhaus Conference 2024: Our Main Takeaways

Sioned Holland

4 Oct 2024

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery - a new lease of life

We are incredibly pleased to announce that the Hereford Museum and Art Gallery project has received planning and listed building consent approval in July.

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Cultural
Building Physics

Article

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery - a new lease of life

Paul Neep

30 Jul 2024

Architype is #ProudlyEO: Employee Ownership Day 2024

Our identity as an Employee Owned business means that all our co-owners have a meaningful stake in the business: Everyone has a voice in the future of Architype.

News

Architype is #ProudlyEO: Employee Ownership Day 2024

Helen Murray

21 Jun 2024

Circular economy principles have often been aspired to in building projects, but what does that really mean in practice?

The Entopia Building
Material Impacts
Transitioning to a Circular Economy

Article

The circle of a building’s life

Ben Humphries

29 May 2024

Architype's Edinburgh studio welcomed Fiona MacLeod and Julie Waldron to the Old Assembly Hall for a built environment sector workshop around the developing Climate Ready Edinburgh adaptation plans.

Event

Designing for Tomorrow: Edinburgh Adapts Partnership Event

Architype

3 May 2024

Opening our Scottish studio - five years on

At the Learning Places Scotland Awards in November, Architype was delighted and grateful to win Architectural Practice of the Year.

Article

Opening our Scottish studio - five years on

Jonathan Hines

26 Mar 2024

For the first time in the 4.5 billion year history of the planet, our home, the climate impacts of our lives have exceeded the planet’s ability to self-heal.

Climate Resilience

News

Our commitments to climate

Sebastian Laan Lomas

15 Feb 2024

Scottish housing design is on the verge of major change.

Callaughtons Ash
Edward’s Court Extra Care
Agar Grove 1a
Living
Passivhaus

Article

Housing for a greener Scotland

Kirstin Assheton

7 Feb 2024

The British Standard everyone should be talking about

Why is it that the construction industry is so bad at examining its products in use and learning from them? What is Building Performance Evaluation?

Building Performance

Article

The British Standard everyone should be talking about

Sebastian Laan Lomas

6 Sept 2023

Scientific consensus is that actions this decade will determine the extents of rapidly worsening climate breakdown.

The Entopia Building
Hackbridge Primary School
The Enterprise Centre

News

Our climate action roadmap

Architype

14 Jun 2023

It was in 2006 that I was given a book that would have a profound impact on both mine and Architype’s journey into Passivhaus design.

Harris Academy Sutton
The Paper Store
The Enterprise Centre
Passivhaus

Article

A celebration of Passivhaus

Architype

25 May 2023

Making space and time for climate action

Architype enjoyed welcoming the Architect Climate Action Network’sClimate Literacy Group and Architects Declare into our Edinburgh studio

Event

Making space and time for climate action

Architype

2 Mar 2023

Climate justice is as critical as carbon

In the lead up to COP27 and during this year’s global climate strike, our teams in Edinburgh, Hereford and London took time to think about what as a practice we can do to help

Article

Climate justice is as critical as carbon

Sebastian Laan Lomas
Architype

17 Nov 2022

Seb Laan Lomas discusses how retrofit is crucial to combatting climate change

The Enterprise Centre
The Entopia Building
Building Physics
Net Zero Carbon Estates Strategies

Article

How to achieve zero carbon estates

Sebastian Laan Lomas

18 Jul 2022

Scientists have united: Now’s the time for the building industry to do the same

The latest IPCC Report, like every one that came before it, is an overwhelming call to action if we are to urgently limit global heating and mitigate catastrophic climate change.

Article

Scientists have united: Now’s the time for the building industry to do the same

Architype

6 Apr 2022

The Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia is among 17 exemplary sustainable projects selected to feature in Build Better Now, the COP26 Built Environment virtual pavilion.

The Enterprise Centre

Event

Global inspiration at COP26

Architype

22 Oct 2021

To mark endometriosis month and raise awareness that one in ten people can be impacted by this disease, we are profiling our favourite ten Architype buildings.

Article

Our Ten Favourite Buildings

Architype

29 Mar 2021

Architype has taken the step to become an endometriosis friendly employer. But what does that mean? It means that we are working to support employees who suffer from the effects of endometriosis.

Article

One in Ten

Architype

29 Mar 2021

March 2021 brings us another month closer to the opening of the UN Climate Change Conference , taking place in Glasgow this November

Article

Countdown to Zero Carbon

Catherine Harrington

17 Mar 2021

A welcome move for Architype’s Employee Benefit Trust

Architype’s journey towards full employee ownership has taken a welcome step forward with the appointment of a new external trustee and new staff trustee in our Edinburgh studio

News

A welcome move for Architype’s Employee Benefit Trust

Lisa Edwards

4 Feb 2021

Architype researcher Chryssa Thoua DiplArchEng MSc MRes undertaking post occupancy evaluation The quality of air we breathe is...

Schools

Article

Breathing Easy

Chryssa Thoua

21 Oct 2020

In support of the global climate strike we continue to call for action- not words - from policy makers.

Climate Resilience

Article

Climate Action

Emily Partridge

25 Sept 2020

The funeral for our dear friend and colleague Howard Meadowcroft BA(Hons) DipArch(Cantab) was held on Friday 6 March.

News

Howard Meadowcroft

Jonathan Hines

9 Mar 2020

Greenwashing: is Passivhaus doing enough?

George Mikurcik discusses why operational energy and embodied carbon in practice, and why Passivhaus is our best tool to fight the climate crisis.

The Enterprise Centre
Passivhaus

Article

Greenwashing: is Passivhaus doing enough?

Architype

26 Feb 2020

By Lydia Moth, Architectural Assistant BSc(Hons) MArch Our climate action continues - here are some practical ways you can help protect...

Building in Biodiversity

Article

Bee Bio-Diverse

Architype

18 Nov 2019

Waste not, want not: How buildings can come full circle

The UN has warned that our failure to act early on climate change means we now must deliver even deeper cuts to carbon emissions just to stand a chance of slowing down the rise in temperatures.

Harris Academy Sutton
The Enterprise Centre
Transitioning to a Circular Economy

Article

Waste not, want not: How buildings can come full circle

Architype

The Scottish Passivhaus Equivalent policy is an excellent next step, collaboratively developed with the construction sector, recognising the value of Passivhaus delivery

Passivhaus

Article

Opinion: Stage 2 of the Scottish Passivhaus Equivalent Consultation

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