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We are passionate about creating educational experiences that are end user focused; that promote learning, collaboration and wellbeing; that are fundamentally sustainable and low carbon; that embed flexibility and adaptability for the future; and that optimise budgets and outcomes. It is these qualities that define Grimshaw’s award-winning global portfolio of education sector work.

We put users at the heart of our designs – their journey, their experience, their personal development – embracing our responsibility as part of the client team to guide and inspire the next generation.

We listen carefully to gain an innate understanding of the brief and put ourselves in the shoes of a multi-faceted client and user demographic – students, trustees, academics, industry, funders and developers – to translate vision into reality and leave a lasting legacy, not just for the campus but for the wider community.

Our designs are always thoughtful, driven by purpose; adaptable, allowing for what comes next; inspiring, for the user; and design-led, injecting our creativity, international experience, and expertise.

Futures Institute at the Dollar Academy 2026

Santa Monica College Arts Complex 2024

Wurun Senior Campus 2022

The Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Health at Arizona State University 2022

Hobsons Bay Wetlands Centre 2021

University of Florida, Herbert Wertheim Laboratory for Engineering Excellence 2021

Monash University Woodside Building for Technology and Design 2020

Science & Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone 2020

University of Southampton Boldrewood Campus 2020

Grimshaw was appointed by the University of Southampton in 2009 to develop a long-term master plan for its 10-acre Boldrewood site.

Victorian Tunnelling Centre 2020

Bath Schools of Art and Design 2019

University of New South Wales Science and Engineering Building 2019

Civil Engineering Building 2019

F23 Administration Building 2018

The F23 Administration Building revitalises the gateway to Sydney University, establishing an elegant workplace for the University executive.

Dulwich College Laboratory 2016

The first stage of a master plan for Dulwich College, this new laboratory building replaces an outdated 1950s building to create spaces for educational excellence.

Duke University, The Richard H. Brodhead Center for Campus Life 2016

University of Bangor Arts and Innovation Centre 2016

University of New South Wales Hilmer Building 2015

The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU Poly), Rogers Hall 2011

UCL Roberts Building Extension 2008

London School of Economics, New Academic Building 2008

The New Academic Building bridges the urban environment of Kingsway to the west and the open space of Lincoln's Inn Fields to the east.

Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) 2008

University College London Cancer Institute: Paul O'Gorman Building 2007

This highly transparent and accessible new Cancer Institute for the University is a signature building, designed to attract first-rate study.

UCL New Engineering Building 2004