https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/award-nominations/ Working to preserve and enhance our architecture and urban environment since 1962 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:35:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cropped-hammersmith-society_founded1962.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/award-nominations/ 32 32 141086131 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/landscaping-outside-greenside-school/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:14:37 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36524 Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026. The area outside Goldfinger’s Grade II* Greenside school has been transformed with a landscaping scheme funded by the Council’s Green Investment scheme. The pupils at the school helped design the scheme which has a slightly raised curving path which they enjoy running along. The planting scheme was by]]> 36524 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/olympia/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:49:55 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36635 Nomination for an Environment Award, 2026. Although we’ve heard a range of opinion, there’s a lot to like in the total refurbishment of Olympia, now complete and open, aside from the theatre, due in 2027. A mixture of well restored and cleaned existing exteriors of the exhibition halls, conversion of the car-park into a Hyatt]]> 36635 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/the-civic-campus-piazza/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:00:21 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36465 Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026. We received several nominations for the Town Hall redevelopment, these are split – generally positive towards the opening up and refurbishment of the GII listed Town Hall itself and its new piazza, but rather less so of the RSHP-devised scheme around it. This nomination is specifically for the]]> 36465 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/133-glenthorne-road/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:25 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36500 Nomination for a Nancye Goulden Award, 2026. We’re fascinated by this unusual new building, especially its odd shape, and zig-zag brickwork, directly in front of the Contract Chair Co in Glenthorne Road.]]> 36500 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/the-civic-campus/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:11:46 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=36451 Nomination for a Wooden Spoon, 2026. We received several nominations for the Town Hall redevelopment, these are split – generally positive towards the opening up and refurbishment of the GII listed Town Hall itself and its new piazza, but rather less so of the RSHP-designed scheme around it. There’s a separate Nancye Goulden nomination for]]> 36451 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/margravine-cemetery/ Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:20:20 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35618 Nomination for a Tom Ryland Award for Conservation, 2026. Margravine Cemetery Wall at the top end of Margravine Gardens, is opposite the Grade II listed station.  Nominated by a resident who says: “The wall is on a slope and on a curve, and is over 26m long and on the street 2-3m high above pavement,]]> 35618 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/the-hawthorn/ Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:00:45 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35626 Nomination for a Tom Ryland Award for Conservation, 2025. Nominated by a member who says:  “The Hawthorn is on the corner of Thorpebank Rd and the Uxbridge Rd in Shepherds Bush. The pub was first built in 1878 and was taken over earlier this year by Peter Creed and Tom Noest of Publican Pubs  They]]> 35626 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/the-uxbridge-road-and-environs/ Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:13:04 +0000 https://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/?p=35635 Nomination for a Wooden Spoon, 2025. The Uxbridge road at its Shepherds Bush end has struggled for some years, and has been nominated for a wooden spoon in a number of respects this year, and by several people. There has been a significant amount of public interest and debate with the council, most recently a]]> 35635