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We design kind, clever places to help people learn and grow.

Exciting news! We’re shortlisted for:

Education Architect of the Year 
+
Young Architect of the Year 

at the Building Design awards 2025!  🏆

Work with us to:

Prepare and optimise your school estate for the post-VAT landscape.

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Bring your school together, with a visionary 10-year masterplan.

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Scale up sustainably as a multi-site education group. 

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Ongoing projects

St Christopher's School
Masterplan

Engagement-led masterplan for a girls school in Hampstead.

Kinderzimmer Group 
Nursery roll-out

Bringing one of Germany’s leading education providers to London, and helping them scale to a multi-site group.

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.

Westminster Under School - Chapter House
Interior Identity

Interior identity & fit-out to help drive the wider transformation of Westminster into a modern twenty-first century co-education school.

St Christopher’s Pre-Prep
New-Build Classrooms

The first phase of our ten-year masterplan for St Christopher’s School.

St David's School
New-Build Classroom Block

Strategic masterplan and architectural development for a growing school in South London.

Chelmsford Nursery
New-Build Nursery

Innovative timber outbuilding and colourful fit-out for an expanding nursery group.

St Christopher's School
Working with the school community

Welcoming fifty pupils to the Kennedy Woods studio for a day of co-design.

In The Making

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.

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Exciting News! Kennedy Woods has been shortlisted in two categories at the @_bdonline_ Architect of the Year Awards 2025 🎉 🏆 Young Architect of the Year 🏆 Education Architect of the Year A huge thank you to our brilliant team, who have worked so
Project Spotlight 🔦 ‘F-Building’ | Stoke Newington | N Family Throwback to this new nursery we completed for N Family Club back in 2020 ⏱️ Prior to its renovation, 110 Chirch Street served as a parivate art gallery. Our design reimag
Exciting News: Maxxi Moretown is Coming Soon! 👶🏼🌿 We’ve been busy behind the scenes working on an exciting new project for Maxxi Childcare, located near Tower Bridge. As an innovative start-up nursery operator in London, we’re helping
48 Bedrooms, 16 Bathrooms and 8 Kitchens later… Cohabs Elephant & Castle is now complete! 🎉 As we continue to help Cohabs grow their presence across London, this project of 8 adjacent terraced units was our biggest and most challenging y
St Christopher’s School Classroom (3/3) Reduce, Reuse and Recycle ♻️ At every oppotunity, low embodied carbon materials have been integrated into the design palette to provide a contemporary and refined interior aesthetic. 100% recycled pl
St Christopher’s School Classrooms (2/3) Play is when the learning takes place! 🌿 We believe that play is a fundamental part of a child’s education. With generous thresholds and visual connections, the new classrooms seek to create a s
St Christopher’s School Classrooms (1/3) ✏️ The first phase of our St C’s 10-year masterplan is complete! 🎉✅ Two new classrooms will support 40 pupils and provide additional learning zones and free-flow access out into the dedicated pl
Progress in Motion 🚧👷‍♂️ A great site visit to @stdavidsprep to see the progress on our new classroom block! Exciting to finally see the frame take shape @bailissandco! Phase 1 of our masterplan is looking to increase capacity to two-form entr
Seasons Greetings from all of us @kennedywoodsstudio! 🎄✨ Wishing all our clients and friends a joyful Christmas and prosperous New Year. Heres to building even brighter and better in 2025! 🏠 We hope everyone enjoys the break and we look forward
Kennedy Woods Turns 10! 🎉🥳 Last week marked a milestone—10 years of Kennedy Woods designing, creating, and collaborating! To celebrate, we’ve put together a selection of 10 “first” projects, each representing a unique yea
Classroom Ribbon Cutting at St. Christopher's School! ✂️ ✅️ 🎉 ⁠ ⁠ We're proud to celebrate the completion of Phase 1 (two fresh classrooms), marking another milestone in our 10-year masterplan for this constrained school site in Hampstead. ⁠ ⁠ Excit
Adaptive Reuse ♻️ 🌿 Breathing new life into this old St John’s ambulance centre in Chelmsford through careful reuse and retrofit strategies. @kinderzimmeruk Photos by @james_retief #Sustainable #Architecture #reuse #retrofit #nursery #ed
Only 11% of UK schools are smartphone-free. 📱⁠ ⁠ This is despite mounting evidence that screen time impacts children's education and well-being. ⁠ ⁠ For this month's Collective Intelligence bulletin, we caught up with Will Orr-Ewing, co-founder of K
Lovely to see Chelmsford Nursery in the sun! ☀️👶⁠ ⁠ Our new nursery building is designed with a spacious, open layout that adapts to every type of play. With generous windows and direct access to the outdoor play area, it's the perfect place for lit
We've been super busy collaborating with @Cohabs to help establish their first home in London, Melrose 38. 🏠️⁠ 👫⁠ ⁠ Already well established across Europe and the US, we’re helping @cohabs adapt their unique housing model to the UK market and
Introducing ARKA Learning ✏️ 📚️⁠ ⁠ After many years running one of the UK’s leading tutoring organisations, we're helping ARKA define a holistic interior design identity that reinforces its unique educational ethos.⁠ 💡⁠ ⁠ Through helping laun
Phase 1 of the St Christopher School Masterplan taking shape! 🔨⁠ ⁠ The first phase of our 10 year masterplan for @stchrisnw3 involves creating a new pair of reception classrooms and early years play area. ⁠ ⁠ Swipe right to see our final proposal! ➡
Chelmsford Nursery is Complete! ⭐️⁠ ⁠ Excited to share another completed project: a small backland development in Chelmsford, Essex. ⁠ ⁠ Constructed through Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), this early years building looks to celebrate sustainable

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Nina Kingsmill Moore
Headteacher, Glendower Prep School

Sandrine Paillesse
Headteacher, St Christopher’s School

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

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

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

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

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