We design kind, clever places to help people learn and grow.
Work with us to:
Scale up sustainably as a multi-site education group.
St Christopher's School
Masterplan + built projects
Engagement-led masterplan for a girls school in Hampstead.
N Family Club
Nursery roll-out
Helping a start-up establish their design identity and strategy to grow from 1 - 30 sites and be awarded best quality group operator.
St David's School
New-build classroom block
Strategic masterplan and architectural development for a growing school in South London.
Glendower Preparatory School
Masterplan and retrofit
The launch and support of a new childcare operator, as they scale across the UK.
Kinderzimmer Group
Nursery roll-out
Bringing one of Germany’s leading education providers to London, and helping them scale to a multi-site group.
King Edward VI School
Science Centre
A net-zero carbon science centre designed to enhance learning through daylight, efficient planning, and a sensitive response to the existing campus.
Co-design workshops
On-site co-design workshops that engage children directly in shaping their learning environments through structured, age-appropriate activities.
Westminster Under School
Interior identity + retrofit
Interior identity & fit-out to help drive the wider transformation of Westminster into a modern twenty-first century co-education school.
Co-Design Toolkit
Child-centred engagement tools
An open-source set of tools, prompts and priors designed to support inclusive, child-focused co-design workshops and structured engagement with young users.
Coming soon
Studio visits for local schools
Interactive studio visits and career-day workshops designed to give children and young people an accessible introduction to architecture and design.
Hearing Birdsong
Child-centred hearing screening
An immersive hearing screen for children that uses birdsong within a calm forest soundscape to assess hearing in a more intuitive, engaging, and humane way.
In The Making
Design education
We believe design should be inclusive, accessible and engaging, so we’ve set up a number of initiatives and partnerships to help make our industry more equitable.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Of the 5 or 6 architectural firms that we have worked with in the last 5 years, Kennedy Woods are amongst the very best and I have no hesitation in recommending them to other educational providers.
Mark Dingle
Operations Director
Wishford Education
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We found Chris, Tom and the team to be full of ideas, keep well to the brief, respond to critique constructively and importantly to fit well with our way of thinking and doing things.
Vicky Garner
Director
Living Villages Cook School
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
I highly recommend their services to any school seeking innovative and thoughtful architectural solutions.
Paul Neagle
Bursar
St Christopher’s Hampstead
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
For a group of franchise CEO’s who rarely have the opportunity to come together, we were a hard group to please. Tom and the team exceeded all expectations.
Emily Vermont
Director
School of Social Entrepreneurs
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I would recommend them to other clients looking for a practice who can apply fresh thinking and dedication to a project.
Neil Kirby
Head of Regeneration
Southwark Council
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Finding architects who understand school needs are rare and I despaired - until I met Tom and Chris. From the beginning, they listened to us and guided us as we created our forward-thinking masterplan and rolled out its first phase.
Sandrine Pailasse
Headteacher
St Christopher’s Hampstead
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Chris and the team are commercially minded and easy to work with - their focus on delivery, fast turnaround times, and willingness to adapt made them a great architecture and design partner for our first 30 sites.
Pete Spencer
Project Manager
N Family Club
Let’s get to work
Our vision is a world where the design of every school sparks courage, compassion and curiosity.
If this gets you fired up, we invite you to book an introductory workshop with the design team.