76 Southbank wins a WAFX 2024 Award 15.07.24

76 Southbank has been awarded a WAFX Award in the reuse category. The WAFX Awards herald the world’s most forward-looking architectural concepts and are awarded to future projects that identify key challenges that architects will need to address in the coming years. This year the judges have selected the winners that they believe are all excellent examples of projects that address the big issues facing architecture, society, and the planet.

Originally designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1983 as an office building and client marketing centre for IBM, 76 Southbank was considered Lasdun’s last major work, and sits adjacent to the National Theatre. Although the building was listed at Grade II in 2020, 18 months into AHMM’s appointment, it does not meet modern standards and presented an opportunity for sensitive, qualitative and quantitative improvements both to the building itself and its contribution to the public realm. Our plans sensitively refurbish and extend the building delivering a total of 300,000 square feet of flexible and highly sustainable office space with large outdoor terraces covering over 4,500 square metres. The plans will provide a long-term future for the building, greatly improving and enhancing its setting within the South Bank conservation area.

76 Southbank will be presented at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore on the Festival Hall Stage in November.