The Hammersmith Society announced the winners of its 30th Awards, introduced by committee member Derrick Wright, and presented by the Society’s president, Prof. Hans Haenlein at its AGM at Olympia on 12th June.  Click on any image for the full resolution version.

In our 30th year of Awards, we renamed our Conservation Award the Tom Ryland Award for Conservation in honour of our past Chairman. We were delighted to present it for the first time to St. Augustine’s Church in Fulham Palace Road.

St. Augustine’s interior

When you step through the doors you enter an inspiring, simple church interior, white walls, light stained roof timbers, clear polished joinery and a wood floor, a building transformed in a refurbishment project in 2017 from the over-painted over-decorated interior which came before. The project team was led by Father Notarianni, himself an alumnus of the Slade, who saw the potential for the transformation, with the architect Roz Barr. The new interior creates a wonderful haven, a refuge which welcomes you from the noisy city outside, whilst maintaining the quiet solemnity of the church interior. The Society applauds the courage of the project, the creative insight, the design sensitivity and restraint.

Architect: Roz Barr

There were four Nancye Goulden Awards this year, in two distinct pairs, all are projects which have made positive contributions to the Hammersmith streetscape.

The first two are King Street shop fronts: Paintbox Studios and Coffeeology

Paintbox Studios | Coffeeology

A good spell seems to have been cast on this end of King Street, where we are seeing a more intimate and diverse high street emerging, counterbalancing the more commercial character of the Broadway end.  Paintbox has spotted a wonderfully quirky original frontage, and brought it back to life – and Coffeeology, its immediate neighbour, has celebrated the qualities of its original shopfront, restoring the fabric with careful colour selection and restrained graphics. These two shopfronts complete another wonderful thread in the King Street tapestry.

The other two Nancye Goulden Awards recognise another type of improvement to the streetscape in the form of the Hammersmith Grove Parklets and The Planting under the Flyover.

Hammersmith Grove Parklets – West

Hammersmith Grove Parklets – East

Planters under flyover

“Plants not pollution”

Last year the Society noted their appreciation of the guerrilla gardening, undertaken by local residents, that was taking place in the borough and fully back the Council’s initiatives in supporting other greening scheme such as those identified here. The scheme is a collaboration between Hammersmith BID (Hammersmith Business Improvement District), Hammersmith and Fulham Council, Medidata – a company working in the new offices at 10 Hammersmith Grove – and the Mayor’s office. The landscaping includes a hedge climber at the roadside railing designed to provide screening from the traffic and to absorb some of the heavy concentration of exhaust pollutant.

Other Awards

In it’s 30th year, and sadly in stark contrast to last year, the committee decided that no completed projects met the standard required for either the main Environment Award or Jane Mercer award, and neither were given.

Sovereign Court

Wooden Spoon

Sovereign Court Phase 1. There are many qualities to this new building, but the corner is what you see from so many angles, from the town centre approach and from Lyric Square, and we are concerned that this very prominent element of the building presents an unattractive and confused profile which offers a poor addition to the town centre streetscape.

Developer: Berkeley Group,  Architect: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

For further information, please contact:
Richard Winterton, Chairman:

Award Nominations 2019

The full list of nominations is shown below for reference. Those in bold/blue were shortlisted when committee members visited the nominations on 19th May. 

Environment Award
White City Campus: Molecular Sciences building (not 100% complete when reviewed)
Conservation Award
St. Augustine's Church refurbishment
Nancye Goulden Award
Saffron, 248 King Street, extensively refurbished after the 2018 King Street floods	Paintbox Studios | Coffeeology
Maison Samadi, 301 King Street	Planters under flyover (financed by Hammersmith BID)
Dalling Road: 2000 Narcissus Tete a Tete: Richard Jackson	Parklets Hammersmith Grove
Paradise gardens, Ravenscourt Road
Jane Mercer Award
Wooden Spoon
Sovereign Court: Beadon road	Sovereign Court: Southern elevation
Imperial West residential tower (not 100% complete when reviewed)	White City Imperial campus: Gradpad student accommodation
Savoy Circus: Chapter student accommodation