Highgate Newtown Community Centre has been recognised as the overall winner at this year’s NLA Awards, as well as receiving the award in the Housing Category! We’re proud to be acknowledged alongside a number of brilliant London schemes, each demonstrating the importance of socially driven, community-focused design.
The NLA Awards recognise exceptional projects across the built environment, celebrating initiatives of all sizes that are helping shape a better London.
“Looking back, the success of the project lies in its social purpose. Highgate Newtown Community Centre shows what becomes possible when ambition is shared, when communities are heard and when investment in social infrastructure is treated not as an obligation but as an opportunity to enrich, empower and create lasting change.”
Alan Beveridge, Associate Director
“All the principles of the New London Agenda that we hold dear truly shone through in the overall winner, Highgate Newtown Community Centre, giving us a huge amount of hope for the future. Small in scale – huge in impact, it’s a generous, beautiful, charming and wonderful project — a truly deserving winner.”
Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, founding director at dRMM
“We shape our buildings and our streets, and then they shape us. Highgate Newtown Community Centre shows what’s possible when London redesigns its neighbourhoods around the changing needs of its people.”
Janette Sadik-Khan, Principal, Bloomberg Associates, and former Commissioner, New York City Department of Transportation and member of the NLA Awards International Jury
