New Delhi, September 2025: Selected from over 550 entries across more than 50 countries, Harrow International School, Bengaluru, designed by CP Kukreja Architects, has been recognised as one of the Winners in the Architecture | Educational Buildings category at the LOOP Design Awards 2025. This international honour underscores the project’s contribution to advancing institutional design by interweaving heritage, ecology, and pedagogy.
As the first Harrow branded school in India, Harrow Bengaluru extends the legacy of a 450-year-old institution into the Indian subcontinent, reinterpreting its classical identity within the ecological and cultural setting of Bengaluru. A preserved natural water channel structures the campus, serving as both a landscape feature and a spatial organiser. Designers arranged the academic, residential, cultural, and athletic facilities around courtyards, shaded pathways, and landscaped spines, fostering a continuum between the built form and the environment.
The masterplan positions the creek as a unifying thread. Bridges, shaded walkways, and green spines extend across its course, celebrating the natural water system as an active part of campus life rather than hiding it. Designers arrange academic, residential, cultural, and athletic facilities in dialogue with courtyards, shaded pathways, and the flowing creek, creating a continuum between built form and environment.
The design reimagines Harrow’s iconic brick architecture through locally sourced materials and draws from Bengaluru’s tradition of palaces, gardens, and lakes. A 30-metre-high clock tower emerges as both a symbolic anchor and an infrastructural innovation, consolidating building services within a vertical core and thereby reducing the ecological footprint.
The campus integrates bioswales, pedestrian networks, and north-south orientation of blocks to optimise daylight and ventilation. The masterplan reduces heat with passive strategies, supports high-performance systems, and manages rainwater on-site. The USGBC awarded these principles a Platinum rating, affirming the project’s role as a benchmark for sustainable educational environments.
Dikshu C. Kukreja, Managing Principal of CP Kukreja Architects, said:“Educational architecture should inspire imagination, community, and resilience. At Harrow Bengaluru, we blended heritage with modernity, embedded sustainability throughout, and let the environment teach.”
This award reaffirms the responsibility of architecture to shape futures, not just buildings.”
The LOOP Design Awards in Portugal celebrate global innovation in architecture, interiors, and product design. In 2025, Harrow International School, Bengaluru, stood out among top international entries.
CP Kukreja Architects (CPKA) is a global architecture firm with offices in India, Vietnam, Japan, and the USA. Founded in 1969 in Delhi by the late CP Kukreja, and currently helmed by Managing Principal Dikshu C. Kukreja, the award-winning firm’s work is rooted in contextuality and driven by a sustainable approach reinforced through innovative technologies. Over the last five decades, CPKA has left its mark in 40+ countries with 1500+ projects across scales and typologies. The firm has over 150 professionals collaborating to deliver comprehensive solutions for the built environment.
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