Green in every way

Native Architects are celebrating 25 years of creating low carbon constructed, beautiful, sustainable, and inspiring buildings.  To celebrate our anniversary, Native teamed up with St Nicks and planted 100 trees as part of the Green Corridors York Project. Green Corridors York is a project which includes several sites in the York District, including Clifton Ings,…

We are delighted to welcome Camlo Sheppard, John Brooksbank-Levery and Hanna Radwanska to the Native team. Camlo recently graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA(Hons) in Architecture.  Cam has a particular interest in historic buildings and their conservation as well as a strong understanding of sustainable design. Sheffield School of Architecture is a…

After working in Leeds for the past 7 years Lucy re-joins Native Architects. Lucy is a RIBA Chartered Architect with over 10 years experience in practice. Her experience covers a range of sectors including education, housing and commercial with projects from small scale extensions to multi million pound new builds. She always strives to find exciting…

Over the past year Rachel has been working hard towards achieving her Part 3 qualification in order to become a registered Chartered Architect, whilst continuing to work hard as part of the Native Team. It has been a long year for her but yesterday we found out that her hard work paid off, as she has…

Over the past few months our Native team has grown. We would like to welcome two new members, Moira Haigh and James Nolan. Moira has joined as our Team Project Manager, and James has joined as our new Architectural Technician. Both have a wealth of experience and we are excited for what they can bring…

Joe and Andrew, members of the York Guild Of Building from Native, helped Scouts on Sunday with hands on building skills. Andrew mixed up the lime mortar and Joe showed just what labourers get up to with his saucy kit!

Our head Technologist James Newton has been awarded a coveted bursary from the York Consortium for Conservation and Craftsmanship. The bursary funds half of the course fees for the School of Natural Building, run by Barbara Jones of StrawWorks, where James is training to become a natural builder. The aim of the School is to…

Native is celebrating Andrew Neal’s Graduation with a BSc (Hons) degree in Architectural Technology at Sheffield Hallam University. His sights are now firmly set on achieving Chartered status.  

Hip hip hooray! Director Sally Walker has gained her M.A. in Building Archaeology from the University of York with a fine dissertation on the majestic modernism of the Fielden Building in King’s Manor. Now she’s available for anything that requires a B.A. DipArch. M.A. R.I.B.A. A.R.B. Architect and Conservation and Heritage Consultant. Form a queue…