New London Architecture

Local identity in London – Community champions

Tuesday 24 November 2020

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The community prize celebrates community-driven design and collaboration, showcasing projects which contribute to a sense of local identity and which are selected from submissions across all categories. Covid-19 has focused attention on building inclusive and sustainable communities and is gaining traction in the UK, said the expert assessors, the prospective winner demonstrating that it both values and brings value to its community. Shortlisted schemes showed how they engaged particularly young people, initiated volunteering regimes, employed unusual and innovative financial models to unlock potential and resonated with locals. This resulted in popular, loved projects with a clear sense of purpose and which, as a consequence, can bring people together and become well-used community assets with a strong sense of ownership.

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


Highly commended

Build Up Hackney, Hackney by Build Up Foundation
Southbank Undercroft Skate Space, Lambeth by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

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.

Battersea Arts Centre, Wandsworth by Haworth Tompkins
Build Up Hackney, Hackney by Build Up Foundation
Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene's, Westminster by Dow Jones Architects
International House Brixton, Lambeth by 3Space
Southbank Undercroft Skate Space, Lambeth by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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