Civic Trust Awards 2024 shortlist 28.11.23

Four AHMM projects have been shortlisted and selected as Regional Finalists for the 2024 Civic Trust Awards, and will now be considered for National Awards or high commendations.

Tower Hamlets Town Hall has transformed and extended the Grade II listed former Royal London Hospital complex on Whitechapel Road to create a new, more accessible headquarters for the council, including a range of spaces for a new Council Chamber to smaller offices, meeting rooms and breakout spaces. The project embodies the Council’s vision to create a healthy, sustainable and flexible work environment for their staff combined with open and welcoming front facing facilities for their residents.

Soho Place is an enormous urban jigsaw that builds on the arrival of the Elizabeth Line to bolster the large-scale regeneration of Oxford Street’s eastern end. The landmark ten-storey, two tier building to the north, situated above Tottenham Court Road station houses retail and office space. The nine-storey south building contains the first new-build West End theatre to open in 50 years with independent office space above.

The Rowe provides 150,000 square feet of office space with retail and public space at ground floor within the retained and extended former Central House building that previously housed the London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design close to the Whitechapel Gallery in east London. An equal volume is added to the existing six storey building with the tension between to old and new highlighted by an inhabited gap, marked by a playful piece of public art by Yinka IIori.

1 New Park Square is the first landmark project for the wider vision of a low carbon community of working, living and leisure at Edinburgh Park by developer Parabola on the western fringes of the Scottish capital. Bringing a new office typology to the Edinburgh market, the new four-storey building provides 87,500 square feet of commercial office space above a ground floor majoring on public functions knitted into a new civic fabric developed in collaboration with Dixon Jones and Gross Max.