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.

31 projects shortlisted for the Camden Design Awards 2025

The projects that have been shortlisted are:

Major Projects Award

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Space House – Squire & Partners
St Pancras Campus – Caruso St John
Highgate Newtown Community Centre – RCKa
Cadence – Alison Brooks Architects
Maitland Park Estate Regeneration – Cullinan Studio
Tin Pan Alley – Ian Chalk Architects
Arthur Stanley House – AHMM
The Warburg Institute – Haworth Tompkins
Central Somers Town – Adam Khan Architects
Alfred Place Gardens – LDA Design
Euston Skills Centre – Mace Dragados
W3 Kings Cross – Haptic Architects
St Giles Quarter – Orms
KOKO - Heyne Tillett Steel/Archer Humphryes Architects
Edith Neville Primary School – Hayhurst and Co
Princes Circus – LDA Design

Small Projects Award

Triangle House – Brown Urbanism
Eliott Square Roof Extensions – Burd Haward Architects and Davies Architecture
Reflect – MATT + FIONA, LDA Design, Fitzrovia Youth in Action Young Placemakers
MEplace Nursery Kings Cross – Office S&M Architects
Hampstead House – Coppin Dockray
Steel House – EBBA Architects
Pine Heath – Studio Hagen Hall
Walden – Polysmiths AD
Elizabeth Mews – Trewhela Williams
Maresfield Gardens House and Studio – Pinzauer
Reciprocal House – Gianni Botsford Architects
Greening Compton Close – Cityscapes, Darryl Moore
Swiss Cottage Library – Jan Kattein Architects
Hampstead Passive House – GS Architecture

What happens next?

All shortlisted projects will be assessed by a jury and the winning projects will be announced in early September.

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, Hayastu 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