Native Architects, York

Our new office build is progressing quickly now! With amazing plastering work by UK Hempcrete, they have created a Native ‘N’ truth window to reveal the hempcrete wall behind, in what will be our new meeting room.

Last week Native attended the Farm Business Show in Birmingham, with a stand showcasing our natural approach to building design. Whilst there, we were nominated for the Business Services Award! The Show’s team say their Industry Awards – which includes the Business Services Award – are to focus on key areas in rural businesses highlighting and…

Native will be at stall C253, at the Home Building & Renovation show in Harrogate this weekend! We are sharing the stand with Ecolime and have a range of products and samples displayed, as well as the Ecolime & Native team ready to answer questions! To find out more about the show go to the…

Native will be exhibiting at the Farm Business Innovation Show on the 8th & 9th November. We will be showcasing our projects that look at rural diversification. The team at the Farm Business show has posted a blog about Native and our project at William’s Den and how we put sustainability at the forefront of…

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…

Native has been working alongside Discover Filey Development Trust Limited to create a new educational building with indoor and outdoor recreational facilities on the site of the Filey Country Park. A piece was recently written in the Yorkshire Coast Radio news page regarding the proposed plans and the progress being made with Scarborough Council. To find out…

After being awarded funding by the York Consortium for Conservation and Craftsmanship, to hold a Hempcrete course at our new office project, Lingcroft Granary, the course was a great success! It ran over 3 days and was taught by Alex Sparrow of UK Hempcrete focusing on the use of hempcrete to renovate and retrofit traditional buildings. The…

In the last few months Native have been working closely with York based Community-led Housing group, YorSpace, to develop a design and vision for Lowfield Green. Lowfield Green is a former City of York Council secondary school site and the YorSpace proposals are part of a complete redevelopment of the site to create 150+ homes,…

Native were once again at York College… teaching the next generation of building professionals! This time, James Newton our Technical Manager and student of the School of Natural Building (SNaB), visited York College to give a talk on building with Straw Bale and the benefits of natural materials being used in construction. James has a…

After our successful Hempcrete course last week, the roof at our new office is on! Great progress is being made on site by the Native team.