JONATHAN TUCKEY DESIGN (JTD) has established a strong track record for sensitive interventions and extensions to existing buildings – a skill that has never felt more relevant or important than in our current environmentally and economically-afflicted times. And that desire to ameliorate or enhance what is already there still rings true for the practice’s first stand-alone, new-build structure: a beautiful, bespoke theatre at the heart of a school in Berkshire.


Horris Hill School is tiny: just 130 pupils, aged from four to 13. It’s a private preparatory boys school, for day pupils and boarders, set within private grounds with extensive parkland. Unlike some of its neighbouring private schools – Wellington College, for example – it is not blessed with any impressive architectural frontages. Te majority of buildings are unremarkable, functional, low-level red-brick structures accrued over the last 50 years, apart from the shed-like sports hall, which was added


most recently. So the beautiful, red, timber theatre that JTD has designed for the school is remarkable on many fronts.


Planted to the south of the campus, flanked by playing fields and wooded pastures on one side, but otherwise surrounded by the school’s mixed bag of buildings, the new David Brownlow Teatre (named after its primary benefactor) transforms what was previously a featureless car park, with added prefabs, into a town square.


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