A new planning application is submitted to Oxford City Council for the new Oxford Brookes University Headington Campus masterplan.

Design Engine is invited to a limited competition for a new teaching, art and social hub project for Radley College, Abingdon. Presentations are due in February 2009.

Design Engine is invited to a limited competition for a new science laboratory building for Charterhouse School, Godalming. Presentations are due in February 2009.

The new John Payne Building at Oxford Brookes University Headington Campus is complete, representing the first phase of the masterplan for the campus. The £4m 15,000sqft facility accommodates the relocated architectural workshop and material testing laboratory from buildings due for demolition, plus two floors of office space above. The building has been designed as a foil for the new development, and is detailed with crisp black cladding with strategic accent colour referenced from the machinery inside the technical areas.