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Guildford Design Awards 2025 Winners Announced
The Awards ceremony for the Guildford Design Awards was held on the evening 13th November at 3000 Cathedral Hill, one of the award-winning buildings.
The awards are run jointly by The Guildford Society and Guildford Borough Council every two years.
The awards were presented by the Mayor of Guildford, Cllr Howard Smith. In addition to the short listed contenders for the award the event The event was also attended by Councilors and Officers from the Borough Council, invited guests and members of the Guildford Society.
Pictures of the winners and commended schemes can be found at this link.
Peter Coleman, chairman of the Judging Panel, commented:
“The Guildford Design Awards, as well as encouraging good design standards, give an opportunity to gather together in one place and recognise the scattered locations of great design work in our borough over the last two years. Hopefully too, publicising the results will bring this work, some of which is on open view, to public attention and appreciation. All the judges thank those who put forward their entries.”
The 2025 Guildford Design Awards Judging Panel:
Peter Coleman (chair), Architect, Guildford Society.
Nic Allen Architect, Guildford Society
Ben Darnton Guildford Business Owner
Martin Giles Editor of The Guildford Dragon News
Gerry Lytle Architect, Guildford Society
Marilyn Scott Arts and Heritage consultant.
Claire Upton-Brown Strategic Director, Guildford Borough Council
The Winners
Two new awards were awarded this year.
In recognition of the increasing use of Modern Methods of Construction in Buildings an award was given for a building using this method of construction.
A Winner of the Winners was also annouced which in the view of the judges was the best of the Winners.
Comendations were given to a number of the other entrants who had been shorlisted.
The Winners are listed below. A downloadable PDF document providing illustrations of all Winners and Commended entrants can be found at this link.
Winners holding up their awards at the end of the evening
Commercial Building
WINNER
Refitted Commercial Office
3000 Cathedral Hill, Guildford
Architect: SPACE
Client: PE Limited
New Commercial
WINNER
Office Charters YardMary Road, Guildford
Architect: KGA Feakes
Executive Architect: Ivett Design and Build
New Shop
WINNER
Marks and Spencer Food Hall, Ladymead Retail Park, Guildford
Architect: Lewis and Hickey
Client: Marks and Spencer
Public Building
WINNER
Small Public Building
Guildford Lido, Lido Road, StokePark, Guildford
Architect: Lytle Associates
Client: Guildford Borough Council
Individual House
WINNER
Hidden House, Abinger Hammer
Architect: Duncan Foster Architects
Client: Mr and Mrs Squire
WINNER
New Build Modern Method of Construction (MMC)
Monkshatch, Compton, Guildford
Architect: Peter Huf
Landscape Architect: Rosebank
Client: Andrew and Karen Jackson
Multiple Housing More than 30 Homes
WINNER
Guildford Plaza
Architect: Ruff Architects
Client: Bowmore Operating Limited Partnership (Partners Group and Tiger Developments)
Conservation Project
WINNER
Small Conservation Project
Stoke Cottage, Stoke Road, Guildford
Architect: Anna Hummel
Design Consultant/ Craftsmen: Paul Smith
Client: Russell and Lisa Strutt
Regeneration Project
WINNER
Public Building Regeneration
Yvonne Arnauld Theatre, MIlbrook, Guildford
Architect: Reed Watts Architects
Client: Yvonne Arnauld Theatre
WINNER
Urban Regeneration
Guildford Plaza, Portsmouth Road, Guildford
Architect: RUFF Architects
Client: Bowmore Operating Limited Partnership (Partners Group and Tiger Developments)
Public Realm
WINNER
The Oudolf Landscape, RHS Wisley
Designer: Piet Oudorf
Client: The Royal Horticultural Society
Public Art Award winners:
WINNER
Urban Art
Mural, Chapel Street, Guildford
Artist: Nathalie Beauvillian Scott
Client: Experience Guildford
WINNER
Building Art
Memorial Window, St Martin’s Church, East Horsley
Artist: Derek Hunt
Client: Rev’d Renos Pittarides
WINNER OF THE WINNERS
30 Guildford Plaza, Portsmouth Road, Guildford
Architect: RUFF Architects
Client: Bowmore Operating Limited Partnership (Partners Group and Tiger Developments)
Free Exhibition of a selection of the 2025 Winners is to be held in central Guildford
Friday 19 June 2026 9.00 – 17.30
Saturday 20 June 2026 9.00 – 18.00
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