New London Awards 2021

Submission Costs

If your company is a Business Member, be sure you are attached to the company team to make use of your discount, see how here.

Partner members – £199+VAT
Standard business members – £249+VAT
Full price (non-members) – £295+VAT

If you have any queries, please contact Andre Holmqvist, on 020 7636 4044 or via awards@nla.london

JUDGING CRITERIA

NLA has a vision for a New London: for a city that is sustainable, civilised and egalitarian, that seeks to improve the quality and standards of new design and respects its rich mix of old and new, that supports the regeneration of its towns, and that strives to improve the usability of its streets and public spaces.

The Awards celebrate all scales of projects, from community-led to large-scale mixed-use developments, both built and unbuilt, that contribute to and enhance this vision of the city.

Across all 14 categories, including unbuilt, the jury will be looking for projects that demonstrate:

High quality design that respects its context and enhances London’s rich mix of old and new;
A wider contribution to placemaking, improving the social, cultural and economic character of the local area;
Advancing knowledge and skills around the design, delivery, construction and funding of projects for the capital;
Longevity, through efficient use of resources, energy and consideration of long-term use and financial viability.

JUDGING PROCESS

From submission onwards, the projects undergo the following selection process…

Longlisting

Quality review – NLA review submissions for compliance with submission requirements, incomplete or missing information.

Shortlisting

A team of London-based cross-sector Expert Assessors are invited to review the entries and help create the shortlist of projects for each of the 13 categories. Every year we bring a different group of people together who contribute with first-hand knowledge and impartial judgment to select a broad representation of relevant projects contributing to London’s built environment.

Site visits

Expert Assessors are encouraged to visit selected projects to inform the shortlisting decision and to be able to make a knowledgeable objective presentation to the International Jury.

Jury selection

Expert Assessors present shortlisted projects to an International Jury.

The assessors give careful consideration as to the reasons for selecting each project, and communicate their motivations to the International Jury. Each Expert Assessor presents the selected projects to be considered for an award, introducing the scheme in the most objective way possible, highlighting its relevance to London. The International Jury bring their global experience in order to select outstanding contributions to the city. The International Jury select the final winners, commendations and special prizes.

UNBUILT

Sponsored by Hayes Davidson

Looking for the best new projects yet to be completed in London from across sectors. These projects will exemplify a future for London that is sustainable, diverse and egalitarian. These prizes will be awarded in this category; small sites (under £10m): large sites (over £10m): and masterplans.

BUILT

CARING

Projects that are designed to improve the health and wellbeing of Londoners, young and old, from hospitals and healthcare facilities to housing for an ageing population.

CONSERVING
Sponsored by Urban Space Management

The restoration and reuse of buildings, across any sector, where efficient use is made of existing fabric and embodied energy: from historic restorations to contemporary insertions and retrofit buildings.

DWELLING

The best examples of individual new homes in small sites across the capital, from one up to five units.

EXPERIENCING CULTURE

Civic buildings, museums, galleries, theatres, libraries, sports facilities, community hubs and youth centres – projects that put cultural experience at the heart to create better places for local residents and international visitors.

HOUSING

Multi-unit residential projects of any tenure – from social housing to PRS to prime resi, creating exemplary new places for people to live.

LEARNING

Educational establishments of all kinds – nurseries, schools, academies, universities, training centres – where design enhances the learning experience.

MEANWHILE

Projects that embrace the city as a work in progress, enlivening spaces, places and high streets over a short-term period, while supporting long-term ambitions.

MIXING

Buildings with a complementary mix of work-live-play, designed holistically to meet the needs of a number of different activities and communities.

MOVING

Transport projects and related architecture that improve the experience of travelling around the city and infrastructure projects which through the transport of water, waste or energy, help London work more efficiently and sustainably.

PLACEMAKING
Sponsored by Vestre

New or rediscovered public spaces; parts of London that have been given new life through improvements to streets, squares, playgrounds, water spaces or parks.

PLANNING
Sponsored by VU.CITY

Masterplans and area-wide regeneration strategies that create entire new parts of the city.

WELCOMING

Hotels, restaurants and bars, markets and shops that welcome guests and enhance the leisure offers and hospitality experience for visitors and Londoners alike.

WORKING

From office buildings and interiors to co-working hubs and affordable workspaces for making and manufacturing – new projects that create inspiring working environments.

SPECIAL PRIZES

MAYOR'S PRIZE
Supported by the Mayor of London
The Mayor’s Prize in 2021 will celebrate projects that provide lessons for the role that high streets can play in London’s recovery from the pandemic and its social and economic impacts. It will highlight exemplary projects and initiatives that can guide and inform the London Recovery Board’s mission objective to ‘deliver enhanced public spaces and exciting new uses for underused high street buildings in every Borough by 2025, working with London's diverse communities’. It will celebrate work that imbeds the principles set out in the Mayor’s Good Growth by Design ‘High Streets & Town Centres: Adaptive Strategies’ guidance.

COMMUNITY PRIZE

Celebrating community-driven design and collaboration, the Community Prize will be awarded to the scheme that demonstrates the most positive and meaningful impact on the place where it is located. Selected from submissions across all categories, successful projects will be exemplary in their response to the social context, contributing to a sense of local identity and helping communities to thrive

ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE
Sponsored by WICONA

Recognising the most sustainable projects in the capital, the Environmental Prize will be awarded to the scheme that shows design strategies that minimise environmental impact as well as an efficient use of materials, a low carbon footprint and innovation. Selected from submissions across all categories, successful projects will be exemplar in creating a more socially and environmentally sustainable net-zero city.

WELLBEING PRIZE

Sponsored by Airflow

Projects that put wellbeing at the heart of the design, this prize will be awarded to the scheme that best shows how design approaches that consider key spatial conditions – such as the quality of air, water, light and comfort – can aid mental and physical wellbeing of the people that live or work in them. Selected from submissions across all categories, successful projects will be exemplar in finding ways to create spaces which make people feel better when they inhabit them.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

In association with the London Festival of Architecture

During the London Festival of Architecture, Londoners are invited to vote for their favourite project from the 2021 shortlist. The project with the most votes will be awarded with the People’s Choice Award.

NEW LONDONER
The New Londoner of the Year Awards celebrates the person who New London Architecture feels has had the most significant impact in shaping the vision of New London, making a positive contribution to the city, and furthering discourse around the future of the London and the built environment industry, whether that is working on a community-led project or leading on significant developments across London.

2021 EXPERT ASSESSORS

A team of London-based cross-sector Expert Assessors review the entries and help create the shortlist of projects for each of the 14 categories. Expert Assessors are encouraged to visit selected projects to inform the shortlisting decision and to be able to make a knowledgeable objective presentation to the International Jury.

CARING

Charlotte Ruben, Partner, White Arkitekter
Simon Hodson, Head of UK Healthcare, JLL
Jane Ho, Director of Health, Principal, HKS

CONSERVING

Victoria Herring, Director, Sustainability Programme, Grosvenor
Ruth Oates, Project Director, Buro Four
John Robertson, Director, John Robertson Architects

DWELLING

Mike Stiff, Director, Stiff + Trevillion
Melissa Dowler, Director, Bell Phillips Architects

EXPERIENCING CULTURE

Anne Fehrenbach, Associate Director, Stanton Williams
Rob Partridge, Design Director, AKTII
Chris Turner, Keeper of Design, Architecture & Digital, V&A

HOUSING

Selasi Setufe, Senior Architect & Innovative Sites Programme Manager, BeFirst
Dipa Joshi, Partner, Fletcher Priest Architects
Andy Costa, Partner, Ryder

LEARNING

Rachel Bremner, Associate Architect, Stride Treglown
Quinton Pop, Associate, HOK
Paul Turpin, Learning+ Lead, IBI

MEANWHILE

Renata Guerra, Voids Activation & Pop-up Project Manager, City of Westminster
Jane Maciver, Creative Director, Buckley Gray Yeoman
Katerina Mercury, Senior Asset Manager, Central London Retail, The Crown Estate

MIXING

Lisa Woo, Head of Placemaking Meridian Water, London Enfield
Bill Price, Chief Strategy Officer, WSP
Tom Alexander, Director, Aukett Swanke

MOVING

Bruce McVean, Acting Assistant for City Transportation, City of London
Frank Anatole, Principal Architect, Network Rail

PLACEMAKING

Sue Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, Landscape Institute
Sripriya Sudhakar, Head of Regeneration, Tower Hamlets
Will Sandy, Associate, McGregor Coxall

PLANNING

Joanne Woodward, Chief Planning and Economic Development Officer, Hammersmith and Fulham
Sowmya Parthasarathy, Director, Urban Design & Masterplanning, Arup

WELCOMING

Beverley Churchill, Founder, Churchill Husband
James Mitchell, Partner, Axiom Architects
Ruth Duston, Managing Director, Primera

WORKING

John Bushell, Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
June Koh, Director, Workplace Sector EMEA, AECOM
Sascha Lewin, CEO & Founder, W.RE

UNBUILT
Arita Morris, Director, Child Graddon Lewis
Graham McCormick, Planning Director, Hayes Davidson
Jane Custance, Director of Planning and Development (Chief Planning Officer), LB Newham

SPECIAL PRIZES

COMMUNITY PRIZE

Clare Richards, Founder and Director, ft’work
Nivene Powell, Senior Community Liaison, EcoWorld
Murray Levinson, Partner, Squire and Partners

ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE

Derek Wilson, Head Of Sustainability, Commercial Development, TfL
Marie-Louise Schembri, Design Director, Head of Masterplan Energy & Environment Group, Hilson Moran
Asif Din, Sustainability Director, Perkins and Will

WELLBEING PRIZE

Yasmin Al Ani Spence, Director, Wilkinson Eyre
Stephen O’Malley, Founding Director, Civic Engineers
Heath Harvey, Project Play Lead, Argent

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