In Lewisham, Avanti Architects have successfully delivered a flagship urban renewal project to support council services and meet the needs of vulnerable communities. The masterplan includes a new SEND school
Former Avanti Architect Director and current Chairman of the Isokon Gallery, John Allan, has released a new publication on architect Berthold Lubetkin. Shining a new light on the iconic architect,
We are proud to announce that our William Muge and Snelgrove Housing project in Dover is shortlisted for a 2023 Inside Housing Development Award! Under the category of ‘Best shared
On September 20th 2023, Director Adrian Miles joined with Charlotte Harris of Harris Bugg Studio, disability advocate and Paralympian Rachel Morris, Elisabetta Carattin of ARUP, and chair Manijeh Verghese, for
Thank you to all the visitors who came to visit our studio and tour The Makers with us this Openhouse Festival 2023! It was a pleasure to guide you through
Located within the award-winning Acute Services Block, the new Ulster Hospital Emergency Department has opened its doors to the public. The new department features generous light filled spaces, and provides
This September 16th, join us for Openhouse 2023! The festival aims to make London more open, accessible, and shared through community engagement in the public realm. Our team at Avanti
Avanti Architects are delighted to be appointed to lead the full restoration of the façades of the Grade I listed Waterhouse Building at the Natural History Museum. The initial project,
We are delighted to have been selected as a supplier on the new ProcurePublic Architects and Landscape Architects Framework. Avanti are ranked highly amongst the 34 appointees as part of the framework
We are pleased to announce that Avanti director Amir Ramezani has been selected as a member of Westminster City Council’s first ever Design Review Panel. The panel will provide independent advice
Avanti are currently working together with the London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust on two appointments at Ealing Hospital and Northwick Park Hospital
We are pleased to announce the acclaimed Ulster Hospital Acute Services Block, in association with Kennedy FitzGerald Architects, has been presented the RIBA Regional Award, the RSUA Design Award and
A new phase of Avanti’s masterplan for the town of New Ross, County Wexford is under development. This includes public realm improvements to the historic town centre including a new
Avanti has recently obtained planning consent for the development of new student residential accommodation at Regent’s Park College in Oxford. The proposed site is located on Banbury Road, a prominent
Ulster Hospital Macmillan Unit, a specialist chemotherapy and cancer support centre, has been shortlisted for the AJ Retrofit 2022 awards under the Health and Community category
Overview of the past year and ongoing work – designing for resilience and sustainable renewal
The Macmillan Cancer Unit, Belfast, has won “Best Healthcare Project” at this years CEF awards
Double win for the Ulster Hospital Acute Services Block at the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2022
Avanti Architects were the proud winners at the Inside Housing Development Awards 2022 in the ‘Best Development – Urban in London’ category for The Makers mixed use development. The project
We are delighted to announce that the Ulster Hospital Acute Services Block has made it to the finalist stage of the Building Better Healthcare Awards 2022. The winners will be announced
This video tells the story of a parent using the new family accommodation that we have designed for Great Ormond St Hospital and Charity at Powis Place
We are delighted to announce that the Ulster Hospital Acute Services Block has been shortlisted for New Build Project of the Year at the 2022 Healthcare Estates IHEEM Awards held
We are very excited to be starting the next phase of work to secure the future of the Grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre for NHS Property Services. Avanti Architects
Avanti Architects have been appointed as framework partners for the new Notting Hill Genesis consultancy framework on the basis of a rigorous selection process with emphasis on quality, as well
A talk and book signing by Hamed Khosravi, writer of “Gabriel Guevrekian: The Elusive Modernist” is being hosted by the IsokonGallery on the 14th of July. Please visit the gallery
Avanti Architects’ Bandon Primary Care Centre & Civic Hub in Ireland has received the Building and Architect of the Year Award 2022 in the Medical and health category. The team
Over the next weeks Avanti Architects will be celebrating 40 years in practice
We are delighted to announce that our William Muge and Snelgrove development for Dover District Council has won the RICS 2022 Awards in the housing category in the south-east region.
Avanti Architects are delighted to have been selected as one of three practices for The Guinness Partnership Architect framework for London, the South and South-East. We will be supporting Guinness
Avanti Architects former director John Allan has released ‘Revaluing Modern Architecture’ which is a fantastic exploration and dissection of key issues relating to our Modern listed building heritage and strategies
We are delighted to see the progress on two neighbouring sites in Lewisham where Avanti are delivering much needed key social infrastructure including a new site for Greenvale SEN school
Avanti Architects are shortlisted as part of the collaborative team for the Barbican Centre renewal competition led by BIG together with POoR Collective, alongside Applied, Atelier Ten, Barker Langham, Buro
We are very sorry to hear the sad news about Max Fordham. Max was an inspiration for a whole generation of architects and engineers.
We wish a Happy New Year 2022 to all our clients and collaborators who have helped make a success of wide range of projects in spite of the various challenges
Bandon Primary Care Centre is a 360-degree health facility home to GP practices, public health nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dieticians, speech and language therapists, podiatrists, psychologists, dentists, ophthalmologists, and mental
The Makers mixed use school and residential project has been shortlisted under the Mixing category at the 2021 New London Architecture Awards
Avanti Architects have won the prestigious Docomomo International Rehabilitation Award (DRAW) 2021 in the Conservation Through Activism category for its ‘outstanding renovation’ of the Isokon and Isokon Gallery. Avanti was
Users first: patients and staff help determine design outcomes at new Macmillan Unit, Ulster Hospital.
Praise all-round for new school with revolutionary funding solution
Avanti Architects are delighted that Ulster Hospital has won a Gold in the Build Back Better Awards 2021, for innovative technical design at Ulster Hospital. Avanti worked closely with Engineering
Avanti Architects has been appointed by Buckinghamshire County Council to deliver a masterplan and design for buildings on a large town centre regeneration site in the heart of Winslow.
Avanti has recently received planning consent for the regeneration of the Old County Offices in Aylesbury.
We are delighted to announce that our proposals for two sites in Redbridge – Little Gearies Estate and Heathcote and Glade Court – have achieved planning consent. Our proposals on
Avanti joins British Museum architectural framework
We are delighted to have just submitted planning proposals for new council-led housing across two housing estates in the London Borough of Redbridge.
Director Fiona Lamb writes about our Natural History Musem facade restoration project
Flagship regeneration scheme reaches practical completion
We are delighted to learn that The Makers has been selected as one of the Shortlisted projects for the Housing Design Awards. This £113m project offers a new, innovative model
Avanti Architects have recently submitted planning applications for two sites for BeFirst in Barking and Dagenham. The two schemes deliver new affordable homes for Barking and Dagenham’s housing company Be
Avanti Architects Conservation team have been contributing to events supporting the “Beyond Bauhaus” exhibition at the Royal Association of British Architects (RIBA).
As one of the judges for the Health and Wellbeing project category, Healthcare Director Duncan Finch presented the 2019 award to winners last week.
Our Mayow Road housing scheme has won planning consent following a positive planning committee decision in October. The project is a pioneering combination of supported living and homes for families with temporary housing needs for Lewisham Council.
Wells Coates talk at Isokon Gallery
A new video showing you around the Ulster Hospital Acute Services Block, Belfast.
Avanti Director Andrew McKeown attended “Jobs for the boys?” at Ombra in Hackney on Monday 30th September with a lively and thought-provoking debate about challenging the issue of diversity and gender balance in our profession.
This weekend, Open House will once again welcome visitors for a rare chance to look around some of London’s most iconic buildings. The programme includes four modernist & brutalist buildings
Avanti Architects have completed the design and management of the second phase of urgent repair works to the terracotta on the west façade of the Grade I listed, Natural History Museum
English Heritage have appointed Avanti to re-design two cafes at the Grade I listed Dover Castle in Kent.
Avanti Architects have been selected by the Barking & Dagenham owned company, Be First, to design and deliver over 140 new affordable homes on Oxlow Lane and Roxwell Road.
Prince Harry has officially opened the new multi-award winning wing at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, recently completed by Avanti Architects.
We are delighted to be embarking on a project for a new SEND School for Lewisham Council. The new special school, located near to Mayow Park in Sydenham, will form
Avanti Architects has been commissioned to record, develop a conservation strategy and undertake trial repairs on the Quinan Stove at Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Mills.
Avanti appointed for new council-led housing developments across Lewisham
Members of Avanti team recently enjoyed a visit to Wellcome Collection’s exhibition Living with Buildings, followed by dinner in Wellcome’s Level 2 restaurant Kitchen – both recommended!! The Exhibition looks
Avanti attended Anglia Ruskin University’s research workshop on digital uptake in the older population with regard to improving health outcomes. Attendees from local government, charity housing providers, architects and academics
Avanti Architects and project team celebrated reaching the 29th and final floor of the Makers building last week in a topping out ceremony attended by the Mayor of Hackney, with
Sheffield Children’s Hospital has won Best New Build Project at the IHEEM Healthcare Estates Awards.
Avanti Architects have completed the design and management of the first phase of urgent repair works to the terracotta façade of the Grade I listed, Natural History Museum, one of the
As part of the programme for the 2018 Tallinn design festival, the Isokon Gallery permanent exhibition is being re-created in the Museum of Estonian Architecture The exhibition tells the story
Avanti Architects have submitted a planning application for 65 mixed-tenure housing units in central Dover for Dover District Council. This mid-rise scheme for two sites within view of Dover castle
Avanti, represented by long time AfH members Claudia Bloom and Andrew McKeown, joined Architects for Health on a study tour of new healthcare buildings in Northern Ireland. Best practice in
Avanti Architects have written the hospital design chapter of the Sixth Edition of the Metric Handbook published this year. This provides a complete range of data, analysis, diagrams and spatial
Avanti Architects are delighted to have been recognised as one of the shortlisted practices for this years BD Education Architect of the year awards. Awards results will be announced on
A Grade II listed modernist house designed by Oliver Hill in the 1930’s which has been sensitively restored. You can read about the project here.
Avanti’s award winning Inpatient Ward Block at Ulster Hospital has been featured in Architecture Today’s Inform Magazine. The project has been described as both environmentally responsible and patient focused, having
Avanti’s most recent project to open to the public is a pair of Grade II listed Georgian houses in Bloomsbury, which have been refurbished to provide free accommodation for parents
A new video showing you around Trumpington Community College.
Commissioned by NVA, a not-for-profit arts charity, Avanti Architects are currently developing plans to partially restore and adapt the Grade A/I listed St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross and it was
Avanti once again features in the Architects’ Journal’s list of the UK’s biggest architectural practices, which has been published annually since 1995. Celebrating Avanti’s success, Director Amir Ramezani and Associate
Last week Banbridge Health & Care Centre won the Medical & Health Building of the Year Award at the Building and Architect of the Year Awards, which recognise architectural excellence
Mossbourne Riverside Academy was officially opened by the Mayor of Hackney last week. The new Academy is the first primary school for one of the country’s leading Multi Academy Trusts
Last week the Nile street team gathered on site for a Ground breaking ceremony with the Mayor of Hackney, marking the first day of construction for this important mixed-use regeneration
#WorldHealthDay 2017 focusses on the theme of depression and mental wellbeing. As Architects, we need to consider how the environments we help to create support our aspiration to enhance the health
An exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of Gropius’s departure from England to the USA opens at Isokon Gallery
Trumpington Community College in Cambridge won a Commendation at this year’s Civic Trust Awards. The awards recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design in the built environment and Trumpington’s Commendation was
Avanti’s Claudia Bloom will be joining the AJ expert panel for the #buildingsthatcare debate on Wednesday 9th November. She will be sharing our top tips for delivering successful healthcare projects including
Avanti Architects in association with Kennedy Fitzgerald architects has received the prestigious Grand Prix Design Award for Banbridge Health and Care Centre , which also received joint winner for the
In March this year, the ruins of St Peter’s Seminary, near Glasgow, were open to the public. NVA created a stunning light and sound event designed to reveal the full
Avanti Architects have decided to strengthen and grow the management of the practice to reflect the opportunities and growth we have experienced. We are pleased to announce that Adrian Miles,
The design team at Avanti Architects were delighted to attend Trumpington Community College’s open day on the 07 July 2016. The open evening, gave an opportunity for the local Cambridge
Banbridge Health and Care Centre was announced RIBA Regional Award Winner and Best Public Building over £3 Million at the RSUA Design Awards held in Waterfront Hall in Belfast on
Avanti Architects have been appointed to undertake architect and masterplanning services for the historic High Hill area of New Ross. Proposals will include a new public park that will connect
In this month’s issue of Design Curial Mossbourne Community Academy by Avanti Architects features in the ‘6 innovative projects in the public sector ‘ article. You can read the article here
Avanti Architects’ design for the first new secondary school in Cambridge for over 40 years is nearing completion. Trumpington Community College is designed around Danish school models with compact planning, allowing a
Avanti Architects have been appointed to undertake lead consultant, architect, heritage and interior design services on the historic and iconic buildings of the former RAM brewery. The RAM brewery is
A small group of Avanti devotees embarked on a short pilgrimage to St Peters Seminary located in the woodlands of Kilmahew Estate near Glasgow, to participate in ‘Hinterland’– a light
Just five schemes have been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Northern Ireland Regional Awards including Avanti Architects Banbridge Health and Care Centre , in association with Kennedy FitzGerald Architects. Banbridge Health and Care Centre
St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross will be transformed by light and sound at the official launch event in March for Scotland’s Festival of Architecture 2016. Fifty years on since the building opened,
Avanti are delighted to be in Cannes from the 15 – 18 March . If you would like to arrange a meeting , please contact our Bid/ Business Development Manager
The Natural History Museum has appointed Avanti Architects to carry out a research project to define the repair and restoration of the Grade I listed, Waterhouse Building Façade. Originally designed
Construction of the Banbridge Health and Care Centre is complete and the new building has been handed over to the Southern Health and Social Care Trust due to open early
Justin De Syllas has contributed a comment piece to the RIBA Journal which draws upon the research he carried out while writing his new book, ‘Integrating Care: the architecture of
Forty years after St Peter’s Seminary closed, work has finally begun to transform St Peter’s Seminary into an iconic cultural resource where powerful art and heritage learning will sit side
Avanti’s proposals for the Tybalds Estate regeneration in Camden feature in new publications by the Architects Journal and Urban Design London. The project is included within the AJ’s ‘Exemplary Housing
Southwark Council has appointed Avanti Architects to draw up new plans for the Walworth Town Hall and Newington Library buildings.Following the devastating fire in March 2013, Southwark Council agreed a
John Allan was a panellist in NLA’s Breakfast Debate on Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks, on 27th February. Other speakers included Anthony Blee, Sir Basil Spence’s former partner and project architect;
The London Clinic is one of the city’s oldest and largest independent hospitals. The clinic has operated since 1932, developing an international reputation as one of the UK’s leading independent
Avanti Architects are leading a project to transform Scotland’s greatest Modernist building into an international venue for cultural events and public art. St Peter’s Seminary designed by Gillespie Kidd &
Led by Professor Roger Williams CBE since 1973, the Foundation for Liver Research supports research programmes into liver disease including much of the pioneering work into liver transplantation and acute liver
Avanti Architects is one of five practices shortlisted to lead the restoration of the fire-damaged Category A-listed Mackintosh building. Liz Davidson, Mackintosh Restoration Project director at GSA, said: “All of
The new 288 bed Inpatient Ward Block at the Ulster Hospital is currently in the 18th Month of a 38 month construction programme. On Wednesday 3rd December 2014 Northern Ireland
The London Borough of Hackney celebrated the official opening of Ickburgh School, a groundbreaking new specialist school for 150 pupils between 2-19 years with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The
The Avanti team spent a summer evening visiting the East Wick Primary School site & surroundings on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The school is located between the International Broadcast
On Wednesday the 9th of July, the Grade I Listed Isokon building turns 80. To celebrate this, a public exhibition with the support of the National Trust will be opened
Thomas Fairchild Community School has been shortlisted in the Education category of the New London Architecture Awards 2014. Winning schemes will be announced on 9 July at NLA’s Annual Lunch
We ranked 61 in the list of Britain’s 100 largest architectural practices compiled by the Architect’s Journal.
Avanti Architects have been appointed to the consultancy services framework established by the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH). The framework will be used to select design teams
Avanti was shortlisted by the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland for the design competition: ‘Designing Primary Schools for 21st Century Learners‘. The brief called for proposals that would facilitate contemporary teaching styles
Avanti Architects have been selected as winners of a competition to redesign James Stirling’s iconic Florey Building of Queens College, Oxford. The 40 year old grade II listed building is
We are delighted to learn that Thomas Fairchild Community School has been selected as a finalist to win a 2014 Civic Trust Award. The 55th Annual Civic Trust Awards Ceremony will
Senior Government representatives of the Finnish city of Espoo (Finland’s 2nd largest) visited London as part of a fact-finding mission to better understand the use of timber as a structural
Avanti Architect’s nominated year out students Eduard Tipaldo and Yuntong Mu to participate in the 2014 annual charette organized by Architect’s for Health in collaboration with London South Bank University
Grangewood, a new mental health crisis unit near Gransha designed by Avanti Architects in collaboration with Kennedy Fitzgerald, was officially opened on Tuesday 17th December. The ribbon was cut by
Avanti Architects’ proposals for public arts organisation NVA to resuscitate St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardross have been given a substantial boost with a first-round pass from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The
Avanti Architects are pleased to have been appointed on the new GLA and TfL Architecture, Design and Urbanism consultants panel. The framework will cover a variety of services including architecture, urban
The pupils of Beatrice Tate are now in the new building after a hectic period of transfer from their old site and enjoying space and facilities such as an art
Avanti Architects have been commissioned to assist Citywest Homes and LB Westminster in the assessment of window replacement options for the Grade II listed, Hallfield Estate designed in the immediate
‘Overall winner’ and winner of ‘Masterplanning and Mixed Use’ category for Tybalds Estate Regeneration.
Avanti Architects in collaboration with JL Gibbons Landscape Architects are currently redesigning the grounds surrounding Luxborough Tower, Marylebone, built in 1965, containing 115 apartments over 21 storeys. The architectural elements
Tybalds Estate Regeneration made the shortlist for the WAN Residential Awards 2013. With huge international interest in the awards, the competition was very high. Our shortlisted project can be viewed
Avanti Architects won the design competition to design a new five-storey tower block and main hospital entrance for Torbay Hospital. South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust held an architectural competition to
A multidisciplinary team led by Tibbalds Planning and Urban design and Avanti Architects has been appointed by CityWestHomes to design and develop an infill site on Harrow Road in London
Tybalds Estate Regeneration has been shortlisted in this years New London Architecture Awards in the Masterplans and Mixed-use category. The winners will be announced on 11 July at the NLA
Construction is about to start on the next phase of our radical overhaul of Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, a major acute hospital serving the Belfast area. The new six-storey ward block
We ranked 48 in the list of Britain’s 100 largest architectural practices compiled by the Architect’s Journal.
Avanti Architects’ design for the first new secondary school in Cambridge for 50 years has just been approved by Cambridge City Council. Andrew Hutchinson, Executive Principal of Parkside Federation Academies,
Avanti Architects’ design for a £40 million project at the Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, has just been granted planning permission. The design aims to create the best possible experience for patients,
PROPOSALS for a £40m wing for Sheffield Children’s Hospital are in line for council approval next week, raising hopes of easing traffic and parking congestion as well as radically creating
Barrhead has just won a second award. Building Better Healthcare awarded the project the award for the best Out-of-Hospital Care Facility!