Design Awards 2018 - Best Construction
Good design and high construction standards, with an emphasis on access, safety, sustainability and building control excellence.
Winner
Highgate Junior School
Superbly built new junior school also to very high environmental standards, to Passivhaus principles, to achieve BREEAM “Very Good” & a 100 year lifetime, including MVHR, glulam beams, sedum roof.
- Architype Architects for Highgate School
Other finalists
Channing School
(also Best Non-Residential)
Striking and elegant new buildings for sports and performing arts set in an existing school campus on a steep slope, close to neighbouring listed private houses.
- BuckleyGreyYeoman Architects for Channing School
St Ann’s Place
Conversion of locally listed, fire-damaged former police station and construction of new affordable flats and townhouses on adjacent land beside the hospital.
- HTA Design LLP for One Housing – Owner & Henry Construction – Builder
TEN87 Studios
(also Best Non-Residential, Best Regeneration)
Insertion of pods housing recording studios into a typical industrial portal framed shed, adding sound and thermal insulation and humanising harsh industrial space.
- KVIST Ltd - Architecture and Design