The awards celebrate and reward the excellent design that is being delivered in projects across all sectors of the built environment in Camden.
31 projects shortlisted for the Camden Design Awards 2025
The projects that have been shortlisted are:
Major Projects Award
- 8 Bleeding Heart - GROUPWORK
- Space House – Squire & Partners
- St Pancras Campus – Caruso St John
- Highgate Newtown Community Centre – RCKa
- Cadence – Alison Brooks Architects
- Maitland Park Estate Regeneration – Cullinan Studio
- Tin Pan Alley – Ian Chalk Architects
- Arthur Stanley House – AHMM
- The Warburg Institute – Haworth Tompkins
- Central Somers Town – Adam Khan Architects
- Alfred Place Gardens – LDA Design
- Euston Skills Centre – Mace Dragados
- W3 Kings Cross – Haptic Architects
- St Giles Quarter – Orms
- KOKO - Heyne Tillett Steel/Archer Humphryes Architects
- Edith Neville Primary School – Hayhurst and Co
- Princes Circus – LDA Design
Small Projects Award
- Triangle House – Brown Urbanism
- Eliott Square Roof Extensions – Burd Haward Architects and Davies Architecture
- Reflect – MATT + FIONA, LDA Design, Fitzrovia Youth in Action Young Placemakers
- MEplace Nursery Kings Cross – Office S&M Architects
- Hampstead House – Coppin Dockray
- Steel House – EBBA Architects
- Pine Heath – Studio Hagen Hall
- Walden – Polysmiths AD
- Elizabeth Mews – Trewhela Williams
- Maresfield Gardens House and Studio – Pinzauer
- Reciprocal House – Gianni Botsford Architects
- Greening Compton Close – Cityscapes, Darryl Moore
- Swiss Cottage Library – Jan Kattein Architects
- Hampstead Passive House – GS Architecture
What happens next?
All shortlisted projects will be assessed by a jury and the winning projects will be announced in early September.
Jury
Chair: Cllr Heather Johnson, Chair Planning Committee
Judging panel
- Denise Bennetts – Founding Director, Bennetts Associates
- Manijeh Verghese – CEO, Open City
- Nina Woodcroft – Founder, Nina + Co
- Anthony Boulanger – Founding Partner, AY Architects
- Sian Ricketts – Architect and Sustainability Lead, Carmody Groarke
- Tom Surman – Director, Surman Weston
- Poppy Levison – Designer and disability activist, DisOrdinary Architecture and Young Trustee of the Architecture Foundation
- Astrid Smitham – Co-founder, Apparata
- Agnieszka Glowacka – Associate Director and COO, Haptic Architects
- Takeshi Hayatsu – Director, Hayastu Architects
Previous winners and shortlisted schemes
Examples of previous winners and shortlisted schemes from the Camden Design Awards can be seen below:
- Camden Design Awards 2022
- Camden Design Awards 2017
- Camden Design Awards 2015
- Camden Design Awards 2013
About the awards
Eligibility to enter
- Anyone can enter a project into the Camden Design Awards. We welcome suggestions from anyone including local residents, local groups and associations, employees and businesses as well as architects and developers (please ensure the land or building owner is aware of the nomination being submitted).
- The Camden Design Awards are open to projects, across all sectors of the built environment and at all scales – from housing to small rear extensions, offices to community and education buildings, new or improved public spaces, retrofitting of historic buildings, or even an exemplar approach to community engagement
- The project must be located within the London Borough of Camden
- Schemes must have been completed since January 2022
- Submissions will need to be accessible by the judging panel in Late Spring 2025
- Previously submitted projects need not apply unless there are special circumstances
Judging criteria
The judges will be looking for projects that:
- are inclusive, sustainable and fit for purpose
- demonstrate high quality in design, materials and construction
- respond sensitively to their context and reinforce a sense of place
- enrich the lives of those who live and work in and around them
Contact us
The Camden Design Awards are organised by the Design and Place Service of London Borough of Camden. If you need more information, you can email us at [email protected]