The Hammersmith Society announced the 2018 winners of its prestigious Awards, presented by Cllr Daryl Brown, Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham at its AGM at the Bush Theatre on Thursday 5 July.  Click on any image for the full resolution version.

There were two Environment Awards in 2018

Queen’s Wharf and Riverside Walk, Hammersmith, W6

The building provides a well-mannered backdrop to Hammersmith Bridge that offers a successful composition of the riverside elevation. The River Walk, a wonderful wide promenade that was a planning condition required by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham without which it would not have been realised, is integral to the success of the Queen’s Wharf building and is a great example of successful town planning.

Developer: Mount Anvil and A2 Dominion
Architects: Assael Architecture and Fourpoint Architects

TV Centre, Wood Lane, W12

A successful marriage of the new and old which restores the Helios building and includes a new office building which is respectful of  its Listed neighbour.  The public space has excellent landscaping which includes lawns, a miniature woodland, semi-mature trees and york stone paving.

Developer: Stanhope
Architects:  Alford Hall Monaghan Morris
Landscaping:  Gillespies 

There were also two Nancye Goulden Awards in 2018

St Paul’s Girls School Sports Pavilion, Bute Gardens, W6

This is a wonderful neighbour to the houses around, proudly contemporary but responsive to the sensitivities of the surroundings, elegant and understated, with an excellent use of materials.

Architect: John McAslan and Partners

2a Loftus Road, W12

The building offers stylistic interest of a scale that acknowledges the neighbouring residential buildings. It is tidy resolution of the meeting of Uxbridge Road commerce with Loftus Road residential and offers an element of wit and surprise to its location.

Developer and architect: Dandi Living

Wooden Spoons

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) new extension. Whilst the Talgarth Road site is a challenging one, hemmed in as it is by the A4 and the tube line, the building offers nothing to the community and appears like a shipping container left on the roadside that offers no insight into the architectural and cultural creativity within.

BT InLinkUK Phone Boxes (also winners of last year’s Wooden Spoon) are not only ugly and block the footways but are an undisguised method of attaining advertising revenue while pretending to offer a public service, which in the era of mobile phones and wifi is largely redundant.

Other Awards

The Conservation and Jane Mercer awards were not given this year 

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Award Nominations 2018

The full list of nominations is shown below for reference. Those in bold/blue were shortlisted when committee members visited the nominations on 20th May.  

Environment Award
LAMDA	Queen’s Wharf (Riverside Studios)
White City Place	Queen’s Wharf (Crisp Road)
The Ark Conway Primary Academy	Television Centre redevelopment
Opening up Thames path, Queen’s Wharf	TV centre redevelopment (Helios)
Conservation Award
Repainting/ cleaning of the Telephone Exchange in Uxbridge Road
Nancye Goulden Award
Planters on Lower Mall, maintained by residents	“Guerrilla Gardening” – tree pits, Galloway Road
St Paul’s Girls School Pavilion	2A Loftus Road
Jane Mercer Award
Capability Brown (apparently wearing a tiara for the Royal Wedding! )
Wooden Spoon
BT InlinkUK “Phone box”	Westfield extension / John Lewis
Queen’s Wharf	LAMDA