Gbs Architects

Gray Baynes + Shew were appointed by Linacre College to carry out the refurbishment of the College's main entrance reception. The previous reception was on the first floor level of the OC Tanner building. A pair of double doors lead from a raised external entrance podium into a. We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new partner to head up our Building Surveying Consultancy Division. Mark Norton, MCIOB AssocRICS CMaPS NRAC, is an experienced Chartered Construction Manager with extensive project management experience.

Gray Baynes + Shew is an award-winning architectural practice, based in Oxford. We are passionate about good design and careful customer service. We work across a range of business sectors including Education and Healthcare and create buildings for all kinds of people and organisations. Environments for work, for learning, for healing, for rest, for play or for worship - people are always at the heart of the spaces we create. We have two Partner Architects, and one Partner Surveyor, each with their own areas of expertise, who collaborate across sectors and projects to maximise the benefits of their experience for clients and end users.

Robin Edwards became a partner in 2004 and in 2007, with the retirement of Simon Shew, the firm changed to a Limited Liability Partnership and David Welbourne became a Partner. Robin retired in 2019, and the firm is now run by 2 partners, using the historic name Gray Baynes & Shew for our general architectural practice with the new name GBS Health+ for all of our specialist healthcare work. Our workload continues to be a mix of Education, Healthcare, Defence with some other institutional and private clients.