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Central Foundation Boys’ School

Bright futures

People standing outside the Central Foundation Boys School

Creating state-of-the-art educational facilities in a heritage context.

Teacher speaking to students in a classroom at Central Foundation Boys School

Over the last 150 years, seven buildings (including a Grade II listed former county court and the Tabernacle Chapel) had been brought together in one school campus around a central courtyard. The result was a hotch-potch of spaces, increasingly under-utilised and inefficient.

Interior detail shot of glazed bricks at Central Foundation Boys School
Students sat at their desk at Central Foundation Boys School
Kitchen detail showing tiling and sink at Central Foundation Boys School

We replaced the less suitable buildings with state-of-the-art general and specialist teaching facilities and improved the efficiency of the remaining buildings through targeted and sensitive refurbishment.

The school now has a new science laboratory, a partially subterranean sports hall in the courtyard and a Creative Arts Centre in the Tabernacle Chapel.

Students playing ping pong at Central Foundation Boys School
Pupils walking outside the entrance to Central Foundation Boys School

Our new cohesive campus provides the school with facilities which reflect and support its commitment to excellence; a bigger and better school for future generations on the same tight inner-city site.

Students sat on a bench in the hallway at Central Foundation Boys School
Man wearing a lab coat in laboratory at Central Foundation Boys School
Detail interior shot inside of Central Foundation Boys School
Hawkins\Brown marry great design vision with a committed and steady eye for detail. This has both given us a hugely exciting design and kept this most challenging of projects moving forward.

Project details

Project name: Central Foundation Boys’ School

Location: London, UK

Service: Briefing and estates optimisation, Sustainable design

Value: £20M – £50M

Scope: Architecture, Masterplanning, Interior design

Clients: Central Foundation

Status: Live

Structural / civil engineer: BDP

MEP services engineer: BDP

Planning consultant: Montagu Evans

Landscape architect: BDP

BREEAM consultant: BDP

Fire engineer: The Fire Surgery

Project manager: Gardiner & Theobald

Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald

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