Hackney Design Awards

Refurbishment and conversion of Grade II listed former public house into two residential apartments with side and rear additions in handmade grey-brown bricks.

Inclusive new leisure facility that is transforming health and wellbeing for the local community. The project combines swimming pools, sports courts and gym facilities in an innovative stacked arrangement that encourages more people to participate in sport.

Single family house built on a tight site at the edge of Victoria Park Conservation Area. The house is designed to mediate between the adjacent Victorian terrace and the large villas behind it.

Urban school built on a tight site and above future Crossrail tunnels. The size of the building and constrained nature of the site required an innovative approach and the building footprint has been kept as small as possible to maximise the playground areas.

Carefully considered retrofit of an existing 1930s furniture warehouse in Hoxton. The building has been transformed from an unused building into a modern, interconnected studio space for structural engineers Heyne Tillett Steel with new build elements in sustainable structural timber.

Private home for graphic designers, which uses light, colour and geometry to create spaces and encourage exploration. The new design draws upon the power of graphics and Art Deco forms, with distinct shapes used to connect spaces and bright colours to enhance every room.

Transformational works to Grade I listed building, which have rationalised and remodelled the existing almshouse while adding a series of new elements, including a new entrance opposite Hoxton Station and two pavilions bookending the historic rear gardens.

Mixed tenure housing commissioned by Hackney Council on two sites at the edge of the post-war Frampton Park Estate. The buildings explore meaningful ways in which architecture can support social infrastructure and each block occupies its respective site with generous external public space.

The Pavilion SEN school has been created from two existing buildings with a lean and careful remodelling that serves 16 to 18 year old pupils with special educational needs. The scheme includes remodelling and upgrade of the Special Care Unit of 1972, which is an early example of work by Foster Associates.

Heritage led project, which included the restoration of the Grade II* Springfield House and adjacent stables block along with a new community venue and various landscape improvements to Springfield Park, a registered park and garden.

Yorkton Workshops has been restored from a series of dilapidated Victorian stables into a new permanent studio, archive and workshop, whilst also providing a gallery, event space and location available for hire. The project took a sustainable, socially valuable and creatively interesting path by working with the existing building.