Education is all we design.

Parents walk round three or four schools before they choose one, and too often they can’t tell them apart. A school’s buildings either make its character visible or hide it behind white walls and grey floors. We design architecture, interiors and landscape for leading British independent schools – from a single refurbished library to a full campus masterplan – starting with each school’s history, culture and pedagogy rather than a standard brief. The result is a school learners want to be in, educators want to teach in and parents remember after the tour.

Groups opening and expanding campuses across Asia and the Middle East need a design partner who understands both the brand they’re carrying and the place they’re building in. We’ve designed schools in China, Thailand, Indonesia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and we know what it takes to keep a campus true to its founding school’s identity while making it right for its own community, climate and culture. Consistency across a group shouldn’t mean every campus looks the same.

Universities compete for students internationally, and an open day can decide a choice before a single lecture is heard. The spaces between teaching rooms – libraries, learning commons, student hubs, places to eat, study and meet – are where students decide whether a campus feels like theirs. We bring the experience design thinking behind the world’s most visited brand spaces to the parts of a university that shape how it feels to live and learn there, and how it’s remembered by the people still deciding.

Colleges serve learners at one of the most decisive points in their education, often alongside adult learners returning to study. Their spaces should feel like a move forward – closer to the universities and workplaces learners are heading towards than the school they’ve left. We design teaching, technical and social spaces that give colleges a clear identity, help learners settle quickly and give educators environments built for how they actually teach.