Jestico + Whiles’ Post

Save the dates!   Following on from the success of our LABORATORY talk series last year, we're excited to announce two new talks this autumn at our studio in Clerkenwell.    On Thursday 24th October, we'll be joined by George Pope of the social enterprise MATT + FIONA, and the artist Emily Speed, for a talk focused on ways of nurturing engagement with the built environment.    On Thursday 7th November, we'll be hosting a discussion between Pierre Bidaud, creative director of The Stonemasonry Company, and Paola Garnousset, co-founder of Blast Studio, focused on materials old and new.    Stay tuned for more details next week.

We're really pleased to announce that our second school design for Reach Academy Trust has received unanimous approval from the London Borough of Hounslow's planning committee. Following the success of Reach Academy Feltham, this next project will again support the trust's innovative teaching and learning model, where the school is arranged according to age-based clusters, each with an adaptable central space at its heart. The school will nurture children throughout their education, from age 3 through to 18. We're looking forward to sharing more about this exciting project.

Huge congratulations to Dion, who we first worked with on our award-winning project Village Stories last year. It's been great to continue our collaboration since then, most recently on our follow-up project School Stories. Richly deserved!

Great to see Harshal Gulabchandre, who joined us for work experience last summer, has been awarded a Gensler Diversity in Design Micro Prize. Congratulations Harshal! 

A massive thank you to everyone who joined us for the launch of School Stories Wednesday evening to celebrate this great milestone!    School Stories is the result of more than two decades of school design work by Jestico + Whiles and we will soon be completing our hundredth school. We wanted to showcase the communities within schools and how it supports young people, teachers and parents in learning, and through captivating testimony, we were able to display why all of us involved in school design are motivated to do what we do.   A special shout-out goes to Dion Barrett for the masterful filmography and Flo Lines for skilfully conducting the interviews and photographic portraits.    Do stop by and enjoy the full exhibition if you missed it! Open until the 11th October 2024, Monday - Friday from 10am-6.30pm at our studio in Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Road. 

The NLA’s David Taylor in conversation with our director Ben Marston on what he has learnt in his four-year tenure chairing the NLA Education Expert Panel. As David mentions, tonight we are launching ‘School Stories’ reflecting on the communities that have formed in the 100 schools Jestico + Whiles have designed. Do join us from 6.00pm in our Clerkenwell studio.

We're excited to see the UK NZC Buildings Standard pilot version has launched. It's the first cross-industry technical standard for defining net zero carbon-aligned buildings. Jestico + Whiles is proud to be a sponsor of this vital work, and to have played a part in its development by hosting an industry round table earlier this year. We look forward to engaging more with the standard and supporting its continued development. Download a copy of the standard at www.nzcbuildings.co.uk.