Past Winners

Design Awards Winners 2021


Photo Credit: © HUT Architecture

People's Choice Winner: The Forest Garden

Junction of Drayton, Southwest and Bulwer Roads, E11 1BX

HUT Architecture and HOS Landscapes

The transformation of a traffic island in the heart of Leytonstone into a vibrant community garden for residents to enjoy. The Forest Garden, completed in October 2020, has been designed to enhance diversity and provide natural habitats for bees, bugs and butterflies. The project has been adopted by a community of green-fingered local residents, who continue to nurture the garden.

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Photo Credit: © Tim Crocker

Judges Award: Sutherland Road

71-81 Sutherland Road, E17 6BH

Levitt Bernstein Architects

A new community of 59 high quality affordable homes, a shared communal garden, and health centre on a site previously occupied by semi-derelict industrial buildings. The design takes aesthetic cues from the industrial setting. The mews houses have a traditional form, which is offset by the striking red corrugated metal cladding, playing on the industrial context and giving these houses a strong identity.

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Photo Credit: © London Borough of Waltham Forest

Judges Award: Fellowship Square

Forest Road, E17 4JF

Hawkins\Brown, Churchman Thornhill Finch

The sensitive restoration of Waltham Forest’s elegant Town Hall providing the vibrant anchor of a civic campus. Now, a flexible, welcoming foyer, accommodates everything from collaborative working to evening receptions, while the civic suite has been transformed to house both community celebrations and council business. A water feature replaces the tired fountain creating a lively and fully accessible forecourt and entrance.


Photo Credit: Walthamstow Wetlands / © Penny Dixon

Judges Award: Walthamstow Wetlands

2 Forest Road, N17 9NH

Kinnear Landscape Architects, Witherford Watson Mann

Opening 200 hectares of operational reservoirs to free public access, the Wetlands is a nature reserve connecting paths along the valley, with public facilities at its heart. New entrances and paths allow visitors to enjoy the site’s distinctive built and natural heritage. A visitor centre within the Victorian pumping station houses a café and exhibition, learning and events spaces. The brick pumphouse has been gently repaired to offer views over water, woods and marshland. A new brick tower housing swift boxes and bat roosts has been built on the existing chimney plinth, signalling the transformation of the site from infrastructure to ecology.

Design Awards Winners 2021


Photo Credit: © HUT Architecture

People's Choice Winner: The Forest Garden

Junction of Drayton, Southwest and Bulwer Roads, E11 1BX

HUT Architecture and HOS Landscapes

The transformation of a traffic island in the heart of Leytonstone into a vibrant community garden for residents to enjoy. The Forest Garden, completed in October 2020, has been designed to enhance diversity and provide natural habitats for bees, bugs and butterflies. The project has been adopted by a community of green-fingered local residents, who continue to nurture the garden.

Back to top


Photo Credit: © Tim Crocker

Judges Award: Sutherland Road

71-81 Sutherland Road, E17 6BH

Levitt Bernstein Architects

A new community of 59 high quality affordable homes, a shared communal garden, and health centre on a site previously occupied by semi-derelict industrial buildings. The design takes aesthetic cues from the industrial setting. The mews houses have a traditional form, which is offset by the striking red corrugated metal cladding, playing on the industrial context and giving these houses a strong identity.

Back to top



Photo Credit: © London Borough of Waltham Forest

Judges Award: Fellowship Square

Forest Road, E17 4JF

Hawkins\Brown, Churchman Thornhill Finch

The sensitive restoration of Waltham Forest’s elegant Town Hall providing the vibrant anchor of a civic campus. Now, a flexible, welcoming foyer, accommodates everything from collaborative working to evening receptions, while the civic suite has been transformed to house both community celebrations and council business. A water feature replaces the tired fountain creating a lively and fully accessible forecourt and entrance.


Photo Credit: Walthamstow Wetlands / © Penny Dixon

Judges Award: Walthamstow Wetlands

2 Forest Road, N17 9NH

Kinnear Landscape Architects, Witherford Watson Mann

Opening 200 hectares of operational reservoirs to free public access, the Wetlands is a nature reserve connecting paths along the valley, with public facilities at its heart. New entrances and paths allow visitors to enjoy the site’s distinctive built and natural heritage. A visitor centre within the Victorian pumping station houses a café and exhibition, learning and events spaces. The brick pumphouse has been gently repaired to offer views over water, woods and marshland. A new brick tower housing swift boxes and bat roosts has been built on the existing chimney plinth, signalling the transformation of the site from infrastructure to ecology.