The Camden Design Awards 2025

The awards celebrate and reward the excellent design that is being delivered in projects across all sectors of the built environment in Camden.

Twelve projects have been awarded winners for the Camden Design Awards 2025

The awards celebrate and reward the excellent design that is being delivered in projects across all sectors of the built environment in Camden.

The award winners are:

Major Projects Award Winners

8 Bleeding Heart - GROUPWORK
Space House – Squire & Partners
Highgate Newtown Community Centre – RCKa
Maitland Park Estate Regeneration – Cullinan Studio
Arthur Stanley House – AHMM
Central Somers Town – Adam Khan Architects
Edith Neville Primary School – Hayhurst and Co

Small Projects Award Winners

Triangle House – Brown Urbanism
Eliott Square Roof Extensions – Burd Haward Architects and Richard Davies Architects
Steel House – EBBA Architects
Reciprocal House – Gianni Botsford Architects
Greening Compton Close – Cityscapes, Darryl Moore

Seven projects were awarded as highly commended.

Major Projects Highly Commended

KOKO - Heyne Tillett Steel/Archer Humphryes Architects
The Warburg Institute – Haworth Tompkins
Cadence – Alison Brooks Architects

Small Projects Highly Commended

Swiss Cottage Children’s Library – Jan Kattein Architects
Reflect – MATT + FIONA, LDA Design, Fitzrovia Youth in Action Young Placemakers
Hampstead House – Coppin Dockray
Pine Heath – Studio Hagen Hall

Within the two categories, we have also awarded two projects each with a special mention.

Major Projects Special Mention

Tin Pan Alley – Ian Chalk Architects

Small Projects Special Mention

Hampstead Passive House – GS Architecture

Awards Brochure

You can find out more about all the above projects, as well as shortlisted and longlisted projects, in the Camden Design Awards 2025 brochure.

Jury

Chair: Cllr Heather Johnson, Chair Planning Committee

Judging panel

Denise Bennetts – Founding Director, Bennetts Associates
Manijeh Verghese – CEO, Open City
Nina Woodcroft – Founder, Nina + Co
Anthony Boulanger – Founding Partner, AY Architects
Sian Ricketts – Architect and Sustainability Lead, Carmody Groarke
Tom Surman – Director, Surman Weston
Poppy Levison – Designer and disability activist, DisOrdinary Architecture and Young Trustee of the Architecture Foundation
Astrid Smitham – Co-founder, Apparata
Agnieszka Glowacka – Associate Director and COO, Haptic Architects
Takeshi Hayatsu – Director, Hayatsu Architects'

Previous winners and shortlisted schemes

Examples of previous winners and shortlisted schemes from the Camden Design Awards can be seen below:

About the awards

Eligibility to enter

Anyone can enter a project into the Camden Design Awards. We welcome suggestions from anyone including local residents, local groups and associations, employees and businesses as well as architects and developers (please ensure the land or building owner is aware of the nomination being submitted).
The Camden Design Awards are open to projects, across all sectors of the built environment and at all scales – from housing to small rear extensions, offices to community and education buildings, new or improved public spaces, retrofitting of historic buildings, or even an exemplar approach to community engagement
The project must be located within the London Borough of Camden
Schemes must have been completed since January 2022
Submissions will need to be accessible by the judging panel in Late Spring 2025
Previously submitted projects need not apply unless there are special circumstances

Judging criteria

The judges will be looking for projects that:

are inclusive, sustainable and fit for purpose
demonstrate high quality in design, materials and construction
respond sensitively to their context and reinforce a sense of place
enrich the lives of those who live and work in and around them

Contact us

The Camden Design Awards are organised by the Design and Place Service of London Borough of Camden. If you need more information, you can email us at DesignAwards@camden.gov.uk

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