In our fifteen years in practice, we have built up a portfolio of award-winning buildings across four sectors: education, community, commercial and residential. In each category we highlight a small sample of our buildings as well as a list of all projects in chronological order of completion date.
Please select a sector heading or click on an individual project for more details.
live projects
We offer dedicated sub-sites following the design through construction phase to completion to our clients, these are used to keep people up-to-date and it provides a vehicle to collect feedback on the scheme.
introduction to architecture
In our fifteen years in practice, we have built up a portfolio of award-winning buildings across four sectors: education, community, commercial and residential. In each category we highlight a small sample of our buildings as well as a list of all projects in chronological order of completion date.
Please select a sector heading or click on an individual project for more details.
live projects
We offer dedicated sub-sites following the design through construction phase to completion to our clients, these are used to keep people up-to-date and it provides a vehicle to collect feedback on the scheme.
education
White Design has extensive experience of working in the education sector, from Sure Start nurseries to primary, secondary, academy and university projects. We have built up a portfolio of award winning education projects and here we highlight a selection of our school designs.
We also provide design and sustainability advice to education projects, details of which can be found on our consultancy page.
community
Whether we are designing an innovative city-based media centre or a visitor facility in a sensitive woodland setting, we always involve key stakeholders in the design process. Through consultation, we aim to help our clients and the local community achieve their ambitions; we believe we have created buildings that are designed by and for the community.
residential
Our residential projects range from a single-storey extension to a cottage in the Forest of Dean designed to meet specific access needs to a modular volume house-building solution using ModCell pre-fabricated straw bale panels.
We also focus on housing association and co-housing schemes, both in our local area and around the UK. White Design has the pleasure of nearing completion on a pioneering project which aimed to build a community of 20 homes and a common house. LILAC or Low Impact Living Affordable Community in Leeds is the first UK affordable, ecological, co-operative co-housing project.
commercial
White Design is committed to bringing sustainable design into the mainstream construction industry. We have have developed the design of low environmental impact buildings to create healthy, productive and efficient working environments, while also minimising life cycle costs of ownership and occupation.
About reHab
White Design has for many years been at the forefront of solutions that put existing buildings “into rehab” to help wean them, and us, off our addiction to carbon.
Our portfolio includes projects ranging from residential retrofit, through to innovative commercial reuse of existing buildings, to large scale strategies for low carbon neighbourhoods.
reHab is a design approach by White Design that integrates behaviour-led design with appropriate sustainable technologies and creative new development models to maximise the potential of our existing buildings and landscapes while addressing their carbon habit.
Truro
In 2011, White Design took the decision to open a new office in Truro, Cornwall, with the express purpose of providing our clients in the county with a dedicated local architectural service. Over the years, the practice has developed an expanding workload in the far south-west, and with Cornwall’s commitment to reducing its carbon emissions, and the Council’s leadership in transforming it to a low carbon economy, there are plenty of synergies with White Design’s approach to architecture.
The office is headed by architect Nick James, who grew up in Cornwall, and who is committed to maintaining the high standards of architectural design already inherent in the county. In a short period the profile of the Truro office has grown in reputation and already has developed a rich and varied portfolio, including a free school in Camborne, a hotel for Eden, a visitor centre for the National Trust and the refurbishment of a listed building on the Lizard peninsular.
For contact details of the Truro office, please click here.
