New London Awards 2023 shortlist 12.09.23

Six AHMM projects have been shortlisted for this year’s New London Awards across multiple categories.

Montacute Yards, shortlisted in the built workplace category, is an innovative collaboration between AHMM and Ben Adam Architects which creates tailored workspace that balances contemporary working styles with a strong sense of community on Shoreditch High Street. The project is one of urban reconnection that turns a closed ‘back-yard’ site into a permeable piece of the city that celebrates and builds on the character of London.

Soho Place, shortlisted in the built mixed-use category, is an enormous urban jigsaw that builds on the arrival of Crossrail 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 south nine-storey building contains the first new-build West End theatre to open in 50 years with independent office space above.

Tower Hamlets Town Hall, shortlisted in the culture category, transforms the Grade II listed Royal London Hospital into the new headquarters for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Consolidating a number of the council’s offices into one location, the new town hall offers a broad range of public services to the borough’s residents, in a more accessible location in Whitechapel.

The Rowe, shortlisted in the built workplace category, is the refurbishment and extension of the former London Metropolitan School of Art, Architecture and Design to create modern office space. Located opposite the Whitechapel Gallery, it takes inspiration from Rachel Whiteread’s Fourth Plinth, adding to the existing six storey building with an equal volume above.

No.1 Blackhorse Lane, shortlisted in the unbuilt mixed-use category, will redevelop the existing site in northeast London for Scape Living, delivering innovative co-living accommodation across 272 residential apartments with a series of shared residential amenity spaces, ground floor public café, ground floor retail unit for a convenience shop, and a purpose-built music and comedy venue for Waltham Forest, The Standard.

Millennium Mills, shortlisted in the unbuilt retrofit category, is an iconic industrial former flour mill that sits proud and civic ad the centrepiece to the Royal Docks. Originally built in 1905 and partially rebuilt and extended in the 1930s and 50s, the Mills is to be sensitively restored and extended as part of The Silvertown development to create a 225,000 square foot ecosystem of flexible workplace, with ground floor retail and food and beverage at roof level.

Winners will be announced at the New London Awards Annual Lunch on the 15 November.