RIBA 2025 South West Awards Shortlist 26.02.25

One Portwall Square has been shortlisted for an RIBA 2025 South West Award.

A simple yet sophisticated, highly energy-efficient office development, One Portwall Square sets a new benchmark for commercial offices in Bristol. The scheme replaces a disused building, originally part of 100 Temple Street designed by John Wells-Thorpe, with a new six storey freestanding office set back from Portwall Lane by a lively pocket square.

Responding to the latest Grade A office standards, the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to maximise occupant comfort and amenity for staff attraction and retention, the building delivers new levels of innovation, sustainability and office design, combining modern and flexible floorplates with generous light and space.

The outcome is an exemplary commercial building that puts people, place, design and sustainability first. In 2022 it became the new base for the AHMM Bristol office, with the practice letting the ground and first floor of the building.

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.