October 6, 2016

This Friday, 7^th October, Dauntsey’s School are formally opening their new sports pavilion and teaching block. The two separate projects have run onsite consecutively over the last 2 years. Both buildings are now in use by the school and have been enhanced by NVB Landscape’s input including a re-designed landscape quad in the heart of the campus that reconnects the new teaching block, Awdry Sports Hall and Memorial Hall. The dining hall has also received an update with a new brise soleil and pedestrian link bridge.

We look forward to celebrating with the school tomorrow.

July 18, 2016

The three new tennis courts at Victoria Park (Mary Baily Playing Field) in Frome, Somerset were opened on Sunday 10^th July. The project has already been a success of collaboration between Frome Selwood Tennis Club and Frome Town Council and improves the facilities in this key park in the town. This is the next phase of a master plan that NVB developed for the town council and continues to evolve. There were three courts in another part of the park that have been returned to grass. NVB managed the planning application and tender for a design and build contractor to build the courts. The courts have already been in use, being enjoyed by many people in the town.

July 13, 2016

Dauntsey’s School in Wiltshire has a new landscape to enjoy. This new Quad has been created as a result of a school master plan developed by NVB Architects within which the construction of a new classroom block this year allowed this quad to be redesigned from its former use as a car park and then games court. The games court has been re-provided (green court paint to follow soon) whilst maximising the planting and the ‘greening’ effect. The space links a large number of buildings and will be used for games informally and as a significant social space for day pupils and boarders.

June 20, 2016

In competition with Allies and Morrison, BDP, Rundell Associates and Cube Design,  NVB Architects have won the appointment to design a 10,000m2 teaching development for Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Hertfordshire.

The  project to create a new academic hub is based around a courtyard and will link a number of existing outdoor spaces whilst providing high quality teaching and social facilities for the English, Maths, Drama, Art and DT departments.

The invited competition produced five schemes from which NVB’s proposal was selected.  The scheme proposes an integrated combination of building and landscape and was a collaboration with our colleagues in NVB Landscape.

We are particularly excited by the school’s high aspirations for this complex development and look forward to working with such an architecturally literate client.

May 16, 2016

Along with St Mary’s School and main contractors Melhuish and Saunders, NVB are proud to have won Best Educational Building at the LABC West of England Building Excellence Awards.  The award was recognition for their two phase 120 bedroom sixth form boarding house.  The building provides study bedrooms for both lower and upper sixth forms as well as staff accommodation and social facilities.

St Mary’s, Calne Sixth Form Boarding House

April 25, 2016

Planning consent has been secured for a new music and media centre attached to the existing school theatre. The development is located immediately adjacent to the Grade II listed School House at the main entrance of the school. It will provide a range of teaching and extra-curricular facilities to support the expanding music department together with a new foyer and reception facilities for the existing theatre.

Construction is expected to commence in summer 2016 for completion by September 2017.

Leighton Park School Music & Media Centre

April 7, 2016

The new Countess Gytha Primary School has been completed and will provide new facilities for the school and pupils of Queen Camel. Modern spacious classrooms with integrated IT and plenty of natural light will benefit the pupils, whilst the simple plan allows easy access to external play areas. The hall and kitchen area form part of the ‘community use’ side of the school and an attached Nursery and reception class allow the integration of all the community into one building.  The school was delivered with BAM Construction in 44 weeks.

Countess Gytha Primary School

March 14, 2016

The new Pavilion at Dauntsey’s School, West Lavington and the Lower Sixth Boarding House “Florence Dyas” at St Mary’s School, Calne, both in Wiltshire, have been shortlisted for the 2016 West of England Regional LABC Building Excellence Awards in the Best Educational Building category.

NVB Architects and NVB Landscape are looking forward to the awards ceremony on 6^th May.

Dauntsey’s School

St Mary’s School, Calne

March 10, 2016

On Friday 4^th March Rook Lane played host to speakers from Germany, France, Poland and the UK in the Switch to a Renewable Future Seminar. Topics under discussion centered around the differing approaches to Planning, Policy and Finance of the participating countries and how this affects delivery of renewable energy generation.

150 delegates from across Europe attended the conference which was organised by Frome Town Council and Frome Twinning Association and was funded by the EU. For further details and presentations please see: http://www.frometowncouncil.gov.uk/switch/

Delegates arriving at Rook Lane.

January 25, 2016

The new pavilion at Dauntsey’s School is now complete.

The pavilion provides the School with much needed changing rooms for their excellent sports facilities and a multi-purpose space, which can accommodate over 200 people, with views of the sports pitches on three sides. There is a large terrace to provide sheltered viewing areas for spectators.

Mark Lascelles, Dauntsey’s School Head Master, said “It is a great credit to our architects that such a large building merges into the landscape so well and it is environmentally friendly too.”