RIBA 2025 London Awards Shortlist 13.02.25

Four AHMM projects has been shortlisted for an RIBA 2025 London Award.

Tower Hamlets Town Hall encompasses the restoration of the Grade II listed former Royal London Hospital building with the addition of a new build extension as the new home for London Borough of Tower Hamlets, consolidating several of the council’s offices into one, more accessible location in Whitechapel. Responding to key eras of the existing building’s development, between 1757 and 1906, the design utilises architectural characteristics inherent in each to enrich the new internal environment. The Georgian formality of the external facades has been retained, the restored brickwork creating a backdrop to the council’s activities within the new extension.

10 Lewis Cubitt Square is a mixed-use building and a key piece of King’s Cross Central, completing an area of the developing King’s Cross Central neighbourhood and complementing an established public realm. As such, it has an important role as a civic ‘backdrop’ and sits next to the primary retail offering at Coal Drops Yard and residential neighbours in the Gasholder Triplets. To the north, Handyside Street separates Lewis Cubitt Square which sits against the new building.

Soho Place is a vast urban jigsaw that builds on the arrival of the Elizabeth Line to bolster the regeneration of Oxford Street. It comprises two mixed-use buildings framing a new civic plaza, Soho Place. The north building, 1 Soho Place, is a ten-storey, two tier building housing 33,000 sqft of retail space across three floors and 192,000 sqft of office accommodation across ten floors. The south building, 2 & 4 Soho Place, is a nine-storey building, the lower volume containing the first new-build West End theatre to open in 50 years, with 18,000 sqft of independent office space.

1 Berkeley Street creates a vibrant 210,000 sqft mixed-use development with offices, retail and the first 1 Hotel outside north America. Located opposite The Ritz Hotel on Piccadilly, the project involves reusing two 1970s buildings, retaining 81% of the existing frame and façade elements along the two main elevations while expanding them with three new extensions: a two-storey rooftop extension, a new pavilion at the corner of Dover Street, and an annex building in Dover Yard. The extension at the corner of Piccadilly and Dover Street reinstates the historic building line and provides an identity to this prominent corner while giving the current buildings much-needed enhancements to both the performance and aesthetics.

All shortlisted projects will be visited by the judges over the next month, with regional award winners announced in May. Regional award winners will then be considered for a national award.