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Featured Projects
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Houlton Secondary School, Rugby Read more -
Leicester Cathedral Revealed Read more -
RSPB Rainham Marshes Read more -
Leicester Cathedral Reordering Read more -
St Benedict’s Junior School and Nursery Read more -
Bolton Market Hall Redevelopment Read more -
Kaleidoscope Children and Young People’s Centre Read more -
The Whitty Theatre, Luckley House School Read more -
SciTec Campus, Oundle School Read more -
Clare College Read more
Latest News
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20th April 2022 Phase 1 of archaeological investigation at Leicester Cathedral completedUniversity of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) have now completed Phase 1 of the archaeological excavation and investigation at Leicester Cathedral, with a total of 124 burials excavated. Recent stonework repairs ...
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25th May 2022 Archaeological excavations continue at Leicester Revealed siteThe archaeological excavations being undertaken as part of our Leicester Revealed project continue to uncover fascinating insights into the past, and making national news! More than 120 graves have been ...
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19th May 2022 Marble Hill House reopens with vHH refurbished cafe spaceThe BBC reports that Marble Hill House has reopened to visitors for the summer, after a period of closure to allow the house and gardens to be refurbished. The Georgian ...
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4th May 2022 A host of award shortlists for Houlton!We are thrilled to announce that Houlton School has been shortlisted in not one, but FOUR RICS Awards categories! Education, Refurbishment, Heritage, and Community Benefit. The project is also shortlisted for ...
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30th March 2022 Houlton School at the RIBAJ’s PiP Educational WebinarvHH Director Josh McCosh recently delivered an engaging presentation for the RIBAJ’s PiP Educational Webinar focusing on the incredible Houlton School project. In it he explains the complex design and ...
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9th March 2022 It’s never too early to learn about designHaving the language and being able to identify what works/ what doesn’t in our surroundings is the first step to building better communities. It’s never too early to learn about ...
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9th March 2022 Houlton’s Urban&Civic Front Page FeatureGreat to see Houlton School featured on the cover of the Urban & Civic 2021 Annual Report and Accounts. The building has been a ground-breaking success, featured in the Architect’s Journal, ...
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8th March 2022 Happy International Women’s Day!Happy International Women’s Day! We are proud to continue be a 50/50 business, with half of our practice being incredible female architects and marketers. Since vHH’s inception we have been consistently ...
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15th December 2021 ‘An Education in Repurposing’ – SPAB“Maintaining the legacy of ancient buildings can conflict with the legacy of climate change: as architects we balance responsibility for both. The adaption of C-Station to create Houlton School shows ...
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25th February 2022 Fine Tuning – Houlton School in Architect’s Journal“It’s not every day that you convert a huge, abandoned radio station into a secondary school. We should be prioritising retrofit of our existing building stock over demolition, so it ...
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30th November 2021 Making Waves – Building Magazine“What Houlton School demonstrates is that it is possible to repurpose a highly specialised building for a completely new function and make it energy efficient while leveraging its historic attributes ...
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10th July 2021 Leicester Cathedral Revealed gets the green lightWe are very happy that Leicester Cathedral Chapter has given their blessing for work on the £12.7m Leicester Cathedral Revealed project to begin on site, with the successful tenderer, Messenger ...
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20th October 2021 Reusing existing buildings to solve the climate emergencyNever has it been more important to highlight the benefits of building re-use than in the current climate emergency. Our competition-winning project in Belgium, for a secondary school at Eeklo, ...
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2nd April 2021 vHH win for Waterbeach Primary School projectWe are delighted to share news of our most recent project win, for a brand-new primary school as part of the emerging Waterbeach Barracks Development, Cambridgeshire. Following a detailed competitive ...
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12th May 2021 St Mary’s Cortile blooming for the coming summerOn a recent visit to St Mary’s School in Cambridge it was wonderful to see how good the rejuvenated ‘cortile’, a central courtyard garden that sits at the heart of ...
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1st June 2020 Framework bid success!We are excited to be on the new Architect Design Services Framework, run by LHC/Southwark Council. vHH Architects have been appointed for Education and Social Care/Community projects £5m to £20m ...
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27th March 2020 Planning permission for St Mary’s SchoolWe are delighted to have been given planning permission for a series of refurbishment projects to dramatically improve the main entrance at St Mary’s School, Cambridge. The proposals will create a large, new ...
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20th November 2019 Still thriving 20 years onSome fabulous events are taking place this Christmas season at the National Centre for Early Music in York, a Grade 1 listed building which vHH helped to upgrade in 1997 ...
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