Leading wellbeing projects

Monday 23 November 2020

Current Winners

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The wellbeing category looks at how design approaches consider key conditions such as the quality of air, water, light and comfort to aid physical and mental wellbeing of the people who live or work in the schemes. Expert assessors felt this was a less defined area in terms of judging criteria but with an ‘intangible joy’ or diversity that emanated from the best of those on show, beyond mere sustainability.

The full shortlist of the New London Awards are eligible to be considered for the special prizes in addition to their own category prize,

Winner

23 November 2020

The Centre for Creative Learning

Winner of the Wellbeing Prize in the New London Awards 2020. The Centre for Creative Learning unlocks an overshadowed corner of the school to house a library and lush rooftop garden, carefully designe...

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Quotes from the international jury

The Centre for Creative Learning, Francis Holland School

Andreas Ruby: ‘Its design intelligence stands above anything else. It’s the most unusual project; I haven’t seen something like that. That kind of site answer is stunning and it almost creates its own typology’

Highly Commended

Holland Park Playground, Kensington and Chelsea by Erect Architecture

Wellbeing Shortlist

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.

Centre for Creative Learning, Francis Holland School, Westminster by BDP

Eccleston Yards, Westminster by Buckley Gray Yeoman

Holland Park Playground, Kensington and Chelsea by Erect Architecture

Spencer Courtyard, Barnet by kennedytwaddle

The Ark, Noah's Ark Children's Hospice, Barnet by Squire & Partners

The Water Gardens, Westminster by Refolo Landscape Architects

Tiger Way, Hackney by Hawkins\Brown LLP