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21st September 2026 Houlton Primary School – From construction site to school 🏗️✏️It’s an exciting moment at Houlton Primary School, with the first spaces now open and being enjoyed by its very first Reception pupils. While work continues across the wider primary ...
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29th July 2026 Leicester Cathedral Revealed wins RICS Community Benefit AwardWe are delighted that Leicester Cathedral Revealed has received an RICS Award in the Community Benefit category. This recognition celebrates the project’s success in transforming one of Leicester’s most significant ...
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15th July 2026 We’re shortlisted for BD Architect of the Year Awards 2026!We’re delighted to announce that van Heyningen and Haward has been shortlisted in the Radical Retrofit & Reinvention Architect of the Year category at the Building Design Architect of the ...
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23rd April 2026 Futurebuild: Reuse in practice: why transformation must come before demolitionReuse in practice: why transformation must come before demolition Time is not on our side. As the climate crisis accelerates, the built environment has a critical role to play in addressing ...
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22nd April 2026 One Click LCA sustainability software validated by RICSWe were pleased to see that One Click LCA has become the world’s first software officially validated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for Whole Life Carbon Assessment ...
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22nd April 2026 We have moved!After 13 years at our studio in Camden, we’re now settled in the heart of the city on Wharf Road, halfway between Old Street and Angel, at Webb Yates’ beautiful ...
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14th October 2025 Come along to vHH’s half-term architecture workshop at Leicester Cathedral⛪ This October half term, explore Leicester Cathedral’s stunning patterns and architecture, through our creative workshop. ❇ From designing bold floor motifs to building technical 3D paper models, you’ll bring the ...
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19th September 2025 Building Magazine explores our Leicester Cathedral Revealed project⛪ Featured in the latest Building Magazine, Thomas Lane’s article explores the complex history of our work at Leicester Cathedral – including unexpected archaeological finds, highly-engineered terracotta fins and the ...
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19th September 2025 Video updates from Commissioners House client on site at Chatham DockyardAs our work on the restoration of The Commissioner’s House at The Historic Dockyard Chatham continues, client project lead Nigel Howard takes us behind the scenes in a fascinating series ...
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26th August 2025 Leicester Cathedral Building Study in the Architects Journal“At its heart, the project entailed a kind of at-first-glance-invisible, retrofit – very much the kind of work vHH excels at and Josh himself relishes.” Rory Olcayto met up with vHH’s ...
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31st July 2025 Championing timber as a low carbon and durable material solutionWe are delighted to become members of Timber Development UK. Our practice has been using timber as a low-energy material across many of our projects for a long time, realising its ...
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10th July 2025 Reserved Matters Approval for new Houlton Passivhaus Primary FacilitiesWe are excited to announce that we have received Reserved Matters Approval for our new Passivhaus-designed primary facilities at Houlton School. The new buildings will transform the existing award-winning Houlton secondary ...
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5th June 2025 Handover of low-energy, 4 storey extension to Leicester Cathedral🎉 We have now handed over our project at Leicester Cathedral after over 17 years of working together, from a feasibility study and masterplan for the reordering of the Cathedral ...
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1st June 2025 See the Commissioners House rooftop up close! Book nowAt our Commissioners House project in the The Historic Dockyard Chatham, the roof has been stripped and we have been finalising details of the new carpentry of the roof and ...
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31st May 2025 vHH presenting at Education Estates ConferencevHH Partner James McCosh will be presenting a case study with Transforming Lives Educational Trust CEO James Higham at the Education Estates Conference in Manchester in October this year. It’s rare ...
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30th May 2025 Super scaffold at Commissioners HouseOur work on the Commissioners House project at Chatham Historic Dockyard is making progress, evident by the huge scaffold which now envelops the building. There has been some interest as ...
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14th May 2025 Leicester Cathedral – Stories in Sound🎼 As part of the ten year anniversary of the Richard III reinterment earlier this year, Leicester Cathedral collaborated with Prof. Leigh Landy of De Montfort University and four final-year ...
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1st May 2025 Countdown to completion at Leicester CathedralCountdown has begun, as our NHLF-funded project at Leicester Cathedral draws to a close. The external façade is visible now from Cathedral Gardens, but visitors will have to wait a ...
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29th April 2025 Commissioner’s House gets planning & SAM ConsentAs Spring gears up, so does our work on the Commissioner’s House project at The Historic Dockyard Chatham. Having received approval for planning and Scheduled Ancient Monument consent, we are ...
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22nd April 2025 Leicester Cathedral Revealed – external works nearly finished!It was a beautiful day when we visited Leicester Cathedral earlier this week, with external works to Cathedral Gardens continuing apace in anticipation of the upcoming Old Town Festival. The ...
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26th March 2025 Explore the stonework of Leicester CathedralTo mark the 10th Anniversary of the reinterment of Richard III, Leicester Cathedral are hosting various events, including a Carved in Stone Tour on Thursday, which takes you around the ...
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25th March 2025 10 Year Anniversary of Richard III’s Reinterral and Tomb RevealIt is hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the reinterment of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral, a momentous event which was also, for us, the culmination of ...
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2nd February 2025 Planning in for new Passivhaus primary schoolWe are excited to have submitted our planning application for primary facilities at Houlton School, This will provide two new blocks, playgrounds, and sports facilities for younger children, and turn ...
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10th January 2025 Planning in for Commissioners House decarbonisation & repairsWe have recently submitted applications for Planning Consent and Scheduled Monument Consent (SMC) for works to the Commissioner’s House at The Historic Dockyard Chatham, which is both Grade 1 listed, ...
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8th October 2024 Spotlight on vHH Architectural Designer Marcela Escobar☕ We sat down for a tea time chat with vHH Architectural Designer Marcela Escobar, discussing topics ranging from why she was drawn to the practice, to what has been ...
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24th September 2024 We’re Hiring!📣 Join the vHH Team! 💡 Are you passionate about architecture and eager to make a meaningful impact through your work? vHH is seeking a talented Project Architect to join our ...
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12th September 2024 vHH in the Bursars ReviewIt’s back to school season, and if you work in or manage school estates, now may be the time when you begin thinking (or rethinking) about the potential of your ...
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20th August 2024 Book now for Leicester Cathedral project talk and tour on 26th September 6.30pm🍷 Join us on 26th September at Leicester Cathedral for an evening of discussion over drinks and nibbles, building tours and insight into the building’s history and its current upgrade ...
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6th June 2024 Retrofit Meets: Schools – Catch up onlineBack in March, vHH Associate Niamh Cronin took part in the first Retrofit Meets event at the Building Centre, sharing her experiences of designing and delivering the award-winning Houlton School, ...
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4th April 2024 Upgrading the Rare Books Library at Newnham CollegeWe are very pleased to have just completed the handover of the newly upgraded Rare Books Library at Newnham College. The original building was completed by van Heyningen and Haward ...
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29th March 2024 Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust announces MEND funding for Commissioners House heritage projectWe are pleased to announce we have been working with Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust on the process of obtaining funding for capital works to Commissioner’s House by the Department for ...
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21st March 2024 New extension for St Mary’s School in CambridgeWe are delighted to announce the completion of our second project for St Mary’s School, with a new extension to their main site. This continues our work delivering a long-term masterplan ...
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19th March 2024 vHH in The Bursar’s Review – The benefits of a performing arts space for your schoolvHH Associate Niamh Cronin is featured in the latest edition of The Bursar’s Review, sharing her expertise on the benefits a performing arts building can bring to schools and how ...
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14th March 2024 Joining up with the Building Centre for Retrofit 24
📉 To meet net-zero targets and increase climate resilience, we urgently need to decarbonise the UK’s real estate. 🏗 Retrofitting is the best way to address this challenge, as around 80% ...
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7th March 2024 Houlton School wins People’s Choice award at the ASBP AwardsWe were so pleased to have been awarded the People’s Prize at the ASBP Awards last week, for Houlton School. Thank you to everyone who voted! The ASBP Healthy Buildings Conference ...
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14th February 2024 What Made This Project…St Gabriel’s School in Building DesignIn August 2023 we were shortlisted as a finalist for the Education Architect of the Year Award, with one of the shortlisted projects being St Gabriel’s CofE Academy, a brand ...
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13th February 2024 Join us at ASBP Conference for awards presentationWe were proud to have recently been shortlisted as a finalist for the ASBP (Alliance for Sustainable Building Products) Awards, and are now looking forward to presenting our Houlton School ...
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23rd November 2023 Working with Open City’s Young MakersYoung City Makers is a programme organised by the Open City charity, to inspire the next generation of city shapers and city dwellers. Through this programme, we partnered with a ...
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22nd November 2023 vHH Primary school achieves AECB energy efficiency certificationIn continuing to deliver low carbon buildings for our clients, we are very happy to announce that we now have our first officially certified AECB building! St Gabriel’s School Phase ...
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24th October 2023 vHH wins inaugural RIBA Regeneration Award!We were elated that Houlton School was announced as the winner of the first ever RIBA Regeneration Award at the Stirling Prize ceremony on 19th October. The judges commended the Houlton ...
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10th November 2021 Houlton CapturedOur newly completed Houlton School is looking spectacular in the sunshine in these new photographs, as captured a few weeks ago by the ever exceptional James Brittain. The school community is ...
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3rd March 2020 Final planning approval grantedWe are delighted that Local Authority Planning Consent has now been granted for our design of a new Heritage Learning Centre at Leicester Cathedral, following some changes to its elevations requested by the Cathedrals ...
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12th February 2020 Join the vHH Team!We are looking for a talented Part II Architectural Assistant to join our studio to work on a variety of projects, including education and adaptive reuse of historic buildings. You ...
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25th October 2019 Rugby Gets GoingMorgan Sindall have begun the initial phase of construction works on C Station, the listed former GPO radio transmitter building at Rugby, that will form the core of the new ...
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10th October 2019 Moving forward with new Passivhaus schemeOur team enjoyed speaking with local residents and pupils’ parents at the public consultation event yesterday, talking through our designs for proposed works at St. Mary’s School in Cambridge and ...
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9th October 2019 Planning approval for new secondary school campus designWe are excited to announce that our proposed design for Houlton School, a new 11,350m2 secondary school in Rugby, has just been granted planning permission and listed building consent. James McCosh, ...
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20th August 2019 Exploring future plans and possibilitiesArchitects from our Houlton School Design Team visited Rugby School’s Festival on the Close a few weeks ago, to engage with students about art, design and Architecture. Students in the workshop were ...
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4th June 2019 Restoring and adapting Rugby’s historic C-StationOur £35m transformation of the grade II listed former Rugby Radio Station into Houlton’s new secondary school, has just been submitted for planning and listed building consents. Working for Urban & Civic plc ...
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22nd May 2019 Bringing St Gabriel’s School to lifeAs the first academic year in their new building draws to a close, children and staff are settling into the spaces at St Gabriels’ CofE primary school on Houlton’s growing development in ...
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14th May 2019 £11.3m Leicester Cathedral Revealed project secures full grantLeicester Cathedral has been awarded the full grant of £3.3m form the National Lottery Heritage Fund for the new Heritage Learning Centre extension designed by vHH Architects. The Heritage Learning Centre, on ...
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4th March 2019 New Heritage Learning Centre gets the green light
We are thrilled to have received both CFCE (Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England) approval and planning permission for our proposed Heritage Learning Centre extension to Leicester Cathedral, as part of ...
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8th January 2019 Listed House and Gardens refurb given planning go aheadThe Marble Hill Revived project has now received planning permission for the revised design, which focuses upon the reconfiguration of the Grade II* listed Park by J.L Gibbon and the aspiration of ...
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18th December 2018 Final submission in for Leicester Cathedral RevealedWe have now submitted our Round Two application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for the Leicester Revealed project and associated works. The application is for £3m to contribute towards the costs of ...
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