Education

The brief was to provide a modern Common Room Facility in lieu of the existing – a mostly barren, drab space sparsely populated by miscellaneous chairs and tables, anonymous lockers and several vending machines. The current space was primarily intended for use by students to wait between and before classes, but the Faculty wished the...

The brief was to provide a modern Common Room Facility in lieu of the existing – again a mostly barren, drably decorated space sparsely populated by miscellaneous chairs and tables. Similar to Room 372 the current space was primarily intended for use by students to wait between and before classes, but the Faculty wished the refurbished...

To produce a design solution appropriate for use, jmarchitects adopted a ‘charette’ process, involving staff, pupils, governors and design team, who worked together to help generate and refine the project scope and brief. The final design creates a series of contemporary spaces, marking an exciting move away from the ‘grand...

Edinburgh College of Art purchased our award-winning Westport, Evolution House and we successfully won the commission to space plan and fit-out our building as part of their Lauriston Place city centre campus in a 2 phase contract completing within a 6 month timescale. The £1.5m project accommodates new studios for graphics, illustration,...

The brief was to create a two-storey extension at the existing single storey school. The extension had to include three new classrooms, a study resource area and a multi purpose area. The ground floor multi purpose areas and the first floor classroom 1 and 2 were required to be subdivided with a folding partition to allow the area to be open up...

Perth and Kinross Council have recently opened a brand new ‘state of the art’ Additional Support Needs (ASN) school within the existing campus at Perth Academy/Viewlands Primary School. The opening of the facility, designed and project managed by the Council’s Property Division, represents a huge leap forward in terms of...

A new purpose built training centre for the Glasgow Training Group who provide a wide range of training courses from Automotive repair to IT and Health and Safety. To cater for this, the building is split into two parts - IT Training and Technical Training. The building also has a multifunctional foyer/cafe area which can be adapted from...

Hazelwood School is an education facility for up to 60 students with multiple disabilities. Each student attending the school has a combination of two or more of the following impairments: visual impairment, hearing impairment, mobility or cognitive impairment. The students are aged between 3 and 19 and the school provides education from nursery...

The aspiration of the design for the new annexe is to provide the local community with the modern and adaptable additional school facility with up-to-date technology and accommodation to help the school meet the demands of the rapidly changing curriculum and national school contexts.

By providing much needed assembly and e-learning...

The 1,900m² provides the University of Dundee Main Campus Library with a new presence on a very tight site within the city centre campus. The new facility provides a striking new addition to the historic campus and responds to the context and University masterplan.

The Extension provides a striking new entrance which commands...

This new two-storey school is designed to suit its sloping site and is grouped around a private, landscaped courtyard. It has been designed specifically for eighty pupils with moderate learning difficulties

Materials that are recycled, reused and/or sustainable have been utilized where possible. On the site the landscaping design...

RMJM was commissioned in February 2005 to design a new music and performing arts centre for Stevenson College in Edinburgh.

The 2,000m2, two-storey Music Box is a single, bold form that contains a variety of teaching spaces, purpose built to include a recording studio, a music and dance studio, individual practice booths,...

SMC Jenkins & Marr’s new £33M Clydebank College Campus is the major catalyst in a bold new urban regeneration project, on the site of the former John Brown Shipyard. The project is the largest single site Further Education campus relocation project in Scotland.

John Brown Ship Engineering was one of the key...

The brief was to design and construct a facility with that would reflect the aspirations of the council in relation to attainment, achievement and, in particular, inclusion. This is reflected in the quality of both the design and the selection of materials throughout and the internal & external access arrangements. The building is inclusive...

RE:Locate is a major new-build campus for Queen Margaret University. Designed around an extensive flagship building, it has been a key tool in the client gaining “Top 10 Modern University” status and is a strong visual statement of their progressive approach to education. It is one of only a handful of UK university campuses to...