Buschow Henley brings to education an understanding of people and of complex organisations. We believe a school should not simply be a response to the latest policy guidance. Instead the pupils and teachers inspire our work, and the community the school serves- creating learning environments that reflect not just the pedagogy but also the culture.

Ongoing education projects include a new music school, languages department, hall & chapel for St. Benedict’s School in Ealing; and a 10-year masterplan for Bedford Modern School including a new hall, entrance, music & drama.

We have been working in the education sector for more than a decade beginning in 1995 with a mobile teaching theatre for L'Ouverture, a learning charity, working in London with primary school children and young adults. In 2002 we completed a permanent base for L'Ouverture at Trinity Buoy Wharf on the bank of the Thames opposite the Dome/ O2 Arena.

In 1998 the Virtual Reality Centre was created within an existing building at University College, London.  In 2000 we were runners-up in the DfES sponsored Schoolworks competition, the brief for the architecture to positively affect the education outcomes. In 2002, in conjunction with the Prison Service, and think tanks ‘The Do Tank’ and Demos we developed a model 21st Century prison that would fully integrate education into the building and regime to reduce recidivism.  This has garnered interest from as far a field as Africa and Australia.

We completed our competition-winning Performing Arts Building at Caldicott School in Buckinghamshire in 2004. The building accommodates a new performance space together with a number of teaching areas and creates a new quad, which provides a focus for the school. It has been widely published in the London Evening Standard, the RIBA Journal and the inaugural issue of School Buildings.

Buschow Henley is a founding member of the British Council for School Environments (BCSE).