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The Britannia Project, shortlisted for Place in Progress. Photo: Jim Stephenson
The Britannia Project, shortlisted for Place in Progress. Photo: Jim Stephenson

Shortlist for The Pineapples 2024 awards announced

The 2024 shortlist for The Pineapples awards for place has been announced with 88 projects in the running for a golden pineapple for their contribution to place

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The 2024 shortlist for The Pineapples awards for place has been announced with 88 projects in the running for a golden pineapple for their contribution to place.


The stage is now set for the live judging of the awards at the Festival of Pineapples, which runs 16-18 April. All shortlisted projects will be presented live in 10 minutes by a member of their team to the judges and the audience. The Festival of Pineapples is a free to attend online event with registration. All sessions are recorded.

Winning projects will be announced and presented at The Pineapples Party, hosted in St Andrew’s Church Holborn, on 16 May 2024. Tickets to the awards party are on sale now and include food and a two-hour complimentary drinks reception, followed by a cash bar, with music and entertainment across the evening. 

A curated selection of finalists will also be invited to present their project on stage at Festival of Place at Boxpark Wembley in London on 4 July. The Pineapples stage is a popular stream at the one-day event featuring developers and designers presenting exemplary projects from across the UK.

 

The Pineapples awards are in their 6th year, having launched in 2019 by The Developer and having grown to recognise excellence in every stage of the development, design and delivery of placemaking, from community engagement to Place of the Year. The pineapple is an historic symbol of welcome in UK architecture, a fact that inspired the awards and its iconic golden pineapple trophy.

Sign up to attend Festival of Pineapples – It’s free
16-18 April, 2024: See all 88 shortlisted projects presented by their teams in front of the judges

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The Pineapples have a unique and rigorous judging process. All projects that enter The Pineapples are reviewed and scored by judges against set criteria for each category to form the shortlist. Built projects are then visited by judges before the final presentation at the Festival of Pineapples. Judges are asked to evaluate the projects, not only through the lens of their professional experience, but also as a citizen. They are asked to evaluate the social and environmental impact of places, to scan their own physical reaction to the project, and to consider how people with different life experiences, abilities or backgrounds might experience it. At the event, judges have the opportunity to ask questions before retiring in private to make their final deliberation by discussion. The Pineapples are awarded by unanimous agreement.

 

Special thanks to The Pineapples 2024 judges


Alison Benzimra, Head of Research and Influence at United St.Saviour

Christopher Arthey, Director at Axiom Developments 

Chloe Mcfarlane, Engagement Lead at Tranquil city

Nick James, Director, Futureground

Dr Bridget Snaith, Lecturer at University of Sheffield and Partner at Shape Landscape Architecture

Alice Lester, Corporate Director for Communities and Regeneration at London Borough of Brent 

Sophie Thompson, Director at LDA Design 

David West, Founding Director, Studio Egret West 

Catherine Dewar, Regional Director North West at Historic England

Rebecca Thomas, Director at Fathom Architects

Martin Prince-Parrott, Founder at SUB/URBAN WORKSHOP

Elaine Cresswell, Director at reShaped

Ben Adams, Founding Director at Ben Adams Architects

Marie Williams, Founder and CEO at Dream Networks 

Julian Tollast, Head of Masterplanning and Design at Quintain 

Magali Thomson, Project Lead for Placemaking at Great Ormond Street Hospital 

Will Sandy, Founding Director at Will Sandy Design Studio

Rene Sommer Lindsay, Urban Designer at AtkinsRéalis

Rachel Bell, Director of Partnerships at Stride Treglown 

James Bruce, Director at Civic Engineers 

Richard Coppell, Group Development Director at Urban&Civic

Rose Marshall, Associate Director at ING Media

Amandeep Singh Kalra, Associate Director, Place and Design at Be First

Paul Monaghan, Executive Director at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Felicity Maries, Community Development and Partnerships Manager at Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
Rob Sloper, Senior Development Director at LandsecU+I

Blossom Young, Head of Operations at Poplar HARCA
Clive Nichol, Founder/CEO at Fabrix

Pepper Barney, Founder and Managing Director, BiBO
Noah Chulu Chinn, Co-founder at SUMweekly
Eleanor Fawcett, Head of Design at Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
Chris Williamson, Chair at Weston Williamson + Partners (Part of the Egis group of companies)
Cannon Ivers, Director at LDA Design

Ruth White, Placemaking & Mobility Strategy and Development Team, City of Edinburgh
Gabriel Warshafsky, Director of Projects at Jan Kattein Architects

Prachi Rampuria, Co-founder and Director at EcoResponsive Environments

John Stiles, Principal Urban Design Officer, Communities & Regeneration, London Borough of Brent
Morwenna Hall, Partner and COO at Related Argent
Duncan Laird, Head of Urban at National Trust
Clarissa Bromelle, Head of Social Imagination at Human Nature

Melissa Lacide, Senior Engagement Officer at Quality of Life Foundation
Soham De, Co-founder and Director at EcoResponsive Environments

Nicola McLachlan, Architect / Director, Collective Architecture 

Duncan Paybody, Director of Landscape, Studio Egret West 

Categories of The Pineapples include: Place of the Year; Place in Progress; Future Place; Future Project: Up to 5ha; Future Public Realm; International Future Place; Creative Retrofit; Community Engagement; Public Space; Activation; Climate Resilience; Building; Activation: Community Spaces; and Infrastructure.  

 

Buy your ticket to The Pineapples 2024 Prizegiving Party
Celebrate excellence – 16 May at St. Andrew Holborn

Find out more

 

 

Glade of Light, Manchester – shortlisted for Community Engagement and Public Space
Glade of Light, Manchester – shortlisted for Community Engagement and Public Space

 

 

The Pineapples 2024 Shortlist

 

The Pineapple for Infrastructure

 

Brent Cross West, London Borough of Barnet, for Barnet Council and Related Argent, with Mace and Studio Egret West

 

Market Gate Bridge, Barnsley, for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, Network Rail and the South Yorkshire Combined Mayoral Authority with Waterman, IBI Group Architects, Arcadis and Keltbray

 

Newport Active Travel Bridge, Newport, for Newport City Council, with Grimshaw, Arup, Cass Hayward and Alun Griffiths

 

The Pineapple for Community Engagement

 

Designing Cities for and with Women and Girls, London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, for the London Legacy Development Corporation 

 

Hartree, Cambridge, for LandsecU+I and TOWN, with Cambridge City Council and Kjellander Sjöberg

 

Glade of Light, Manchester, for Manchester City Council with Galliford Try, BCA Landscape, Planit and Civic Engineers

 

The Phoenix, Lewes, for Human Nature, with Periscope and Arup

 

Earls Court, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, for The Earls Court Development Company, with ZCD Architects

Waltham Forest Affordable Housing Commission & Housing Strategy, London Borough of Waltham Forest, for London Borough of Waltham Forest, with Waltham Forest Affordable Housing Commission and PRD

 

Church End Growth Area, London Borough of Brent, for Brent Council, with Hawkins\Brown and Jan Kattein Architects

 

Edgware Town Centre, London Borough of Barnet, for Ballymore and Places for London, with Field Consulting, Howells, Gustafson Porter + Bowman and Savills

 

The Pineapple for Climate Resilience

 

The Forest Garden, London Borough of Waltham Forest, for London Borough of Waltham Forest, with HUT, HOS landscapes, Moira Lascelles and John Little

 

Northfield Grove, Edinburgh, for City of Edinburgh Council, with Thomas & Adamson, Civic Engineers and Raeburn Farquhar Bowen

 

West End Project, London Borough of Camden, for Camden Council, with Central District Alliance, LDA Design, Norman Rourke Pryme, Arcadis and Michael Grubb Studio 

 

Jaywick Sands Place Plan, Jaywick, for Tendring District Council, with HAT projects

 

Urban GreenUP, Liverpool, for Liverpool City Council, Mersey Forest and University of Liverpool, with Amey, ANS Global, BCA Landscape, Biomatrix Water Solutions, Biotecture, Environmental Protection Group, Mersey Forest, Flavia Goldsworthy, reShaped, Scotscape, Something and Son with Jake McConville, Streetscene Services, STRI Group and WSP 

 

3 Mills Studios, London Borough of Newham, shortlisted for Creative Retrofit. Photo: Lorenzo Zandri
3 Mills Studios, London Borough of Newham, shortlisted for Creative Retrofit. Photo: Lorenzo Zandri

 

The Pineapple for Future Project: Up to 5ha

 

Church Street Regeneration, City of Westminster, for Westminster City Council, with Bell Phillips, Arcadis, Stantec, Max Fordham, Savills, Flint and Camlins

 

Helping Hands, Liverpool, for the Independence Initiative and Neighbourhood, with Studio MUTT

 

Prestwich Village, Manchester, for Muse and Bury Council, with Jon Matthews Architects and Planit

 

The Littlewoods Project, Liverpool, for Capital & Centric, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Liverpool City Council, with shedkm

 

South Molton Triangle, City of Westminster, for Grosvenor and Mitsui Fudosan UK, with Hopkins, BDP, Donald Insall Associates, Twin & Earth and WSP

 

The Clay Community, Hambrook, with Jonathan Tuckey Design, Lehm Ton Erde and Stonewood Builders

 

The Pineapple for Creative Retrofit

 

Balfron Tower, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, for Poplar HARCA and Telford Homes, with Studio Egret West and Ab Rogers Design

 

Bath School of Art and Design, Bath, for Bath Spa University, with Grimshaw, ARUP, Currie & Brown, Montresor Partnership, Mann Williams, Capita, Gleeds, and Wilmott Dixon

 

3 Mills Studios, London Borough of Newham, for London Legacy Development Corporation, with Gort Scott and Freehaus

 

Tower Hamlets Town Hall, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, for London Borough of Tower Hamlets with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Richard Griffiths, Elliott Wood, Atelier 10 and Bouygues UK

 

Nottingham Energiesprong, Nottingham, for Nottingham City Homes, with Melius Homes, Studio Partington and Energiesprong UK

 

Arding & Hobbs, London Borough of Wandsworth, for W.RE, with Stiff+Trevillion, Knight Harwood, AKT II and Blackburn Co.

 

East Ham Old Fire Station, London Borough of Newham, for Populo Living, with dRMM

 

All Saints, London Borough of Southwark, for EPR Studio, with EPR Architects and Kate Malone

 

The Pineapple for Public Space

 

West End Project, London Borough of Camden, for Camden Council, with Central District Alliance, LDA Design, Norman Rourke Pryme, Arcadis and Michael Grubb Studio 

 

Glade of Light, Manchester, for Manchester City Council, with Galliford Try, BCA Landscape, Planit, Civic Engineers

 

Green Spine, City of Westminster, for Westminster City Council, with BDP, WSP and FM Conway

 

Pound’s Park, Sheffield, for Sheffield City Council, with Get Building Fund, Planit, Henry Boot Construction, Whittam Cox Architects, Dudley Engineers, Riveline, Julian Stocks and Timberplay 

 

Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen, for Aberdeen City Council, with LDA Design, Stallan Brand, Arup and Balfour Beatty

 

Regents Place, London Borough of Camden, for British Land, with Townshend Landscape Architects and Nex Architects

Eddington Hotel, Cambridge, for edyn, with dRMM, Robert Myers Associates and AvroKo

 

Bishops Square, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, for for Spitalfields Development Group with Foster + Partners and SEAM

Eddington Hotel, Cambridge, shortlisted for Public Space. Photo: Sarah Blee
Eddington Hotel, Cambridge, shortlisted for Public Space. Photo: Sarah Blee

 

The Pineapple for Activation

 

PoliNations, Birmingham, for UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK, with Trigger, THISS studio and Carl Robertshaw 


Assemble in the Forest, Bath, for Forest of Imagination, National Trust, with Bath Spa University, Bathscape, RSA, Rainforest Concern, Grant Associates, HOI, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Invisible Studio

 

We Invented the Weekend Festival, Salford, for Peel Media, Landsec and Salford City Council, with The Lowry, BBC, HemingwayDesign and Quays Culture 

 

The Place Between, Milton Keynes, for centre:mk and IF, with Jason Singh and Rebecca Louise Law

 

Five Years On: Wembley Park’s Cultural Placemaking Strategy, London Borough of Brent, for Quintain, with Futurecity

 

Bexleyheath High Streets for All, London Borough of Bexley, for London Borough of Bexley, with We Made That and POoR Collective

 

Bringing the wonder back to Earls Court, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, for The Earls Court Development Company, with Hawkins\Brown and ​​Studio Egret West

 

The Pineapple for Activation: Community Space

 

Tooting Works, London Borough of Wandsworth, for Business Launchpad, with  alma-nac, Townlab and Dollman Ralston

 

Sparks Bristol, Bristol, for Artspace and Global Goals Centre, with Invisible Circus 

 

LJ Works, London Borough of Lambeth, for London Borough of Lambeth, with Architecture 00, Jan Kattein Architects, Public Works and Meanwhile Space CIC

 

Houlton, Rugby, for Urban&Civic and Aviva Investors, with the Houlton Project Team

New Greenhill Building, London Borough of Harrow, for Harrow Arts Centre, with Chris Dyson Architects, Webb Yates, KLA, Studio Emmi and PT Projects

 

The Bell, Ticehurst, for AreYou?, with We Like Today, Chris Baxter, Ben Stagg Architects and Gleeds

 

The Pineapple for Future Place

 

Earls Court, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, for The Earls Court Development Company, with Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West

 

Oxford North, Oxford, for Oxford North Ventures, with Fletcher Priest Architects, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Stantec, Wilkinson Eyre and Gort Scott

 

Kensal Canalside, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for Ballymore and Sainsbury’s, with FaulknerBrowns and Spacehub

 

Red Bank, Manchester, for Far East Consortium, with Maccreanor Lavington, Schulze + Grassov, Op-en, Useful Projects and WSP

 

Edgware Town Centre, London Borough of Barnet, for Ballymore and Places for London, with Howells and Gustafson Porter + Bowman

 

Lancaster West Estate, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team, with Lancaster West Residents’ Association

 

Golden Valley, Cheltenham, for Cheltenham Borough Council and Henry Boot Developments, with Grimshaw, Grant Associates, HGH Consulting, Buro Happold, Vectos and EDP

 

Gascoigne East Phase 2, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, shortlisted for Place of the Year
Gascoigne East Phase 2, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, shortlisted for Place of the Year

 

The Pineapple for Future Public Realm

 

Dock Branch, Birkenhead, for Wirral Council, with OPEN, Mott MacDonald, BB Heritage and Walker Sime


Woolwich Town Centre, Royal Borough of Greenwich, for the Royal Borough of Greenwich, with LDA Design and Studio Weave 


Meridian Water, London Borough of Enfield, for Enfield Council and Strategic Infrastructure Works, with Taylor Woodrow, Arup and Stace


Devonshire Gardens, Cambridge, for Railpen and Socius, with RH Partnership and LDA Design 


Aberdeen City Vision, Aberdeen, for Aberdeen City Council, with LDA Design, Fairhurst and Systra


St Paul’s Gyratory Transformation Project, City of London, for City of London Corporation, with NRP, LDA Design and Transport for London

 

The Pineapple for Place in Progress

 

The Verdean, London Borough of Ealing, for Peabody and Mount Anvil, with Levitt Bernstein, Kew Gardens, Exterior Architecture, Light Follows Behaviour and Tigg Coll

University of Glasgow Western Campus, Glasgow, for University of Glasgow and Multiplex, with LUC, AECOM, 7N and Arup
 

Harringay Warehouse District, London Borough of Haringey, for Provewell, with Ruth Campbell & Co, Tibbalds, Morris+Company, Container City and Dakota

Rochester Riverside, Medway, for Medway Council, Countryside Partnerships (Vistry Group) and The Hyde Group, with BPTW and LUC 

Stockport Town Centre West, Stockport, for Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation, Stockport Council, Homes England and Greater Manchester Combined Authority
 

The Britannia Project, London Borough of Hackney, for London Borough of Hackney, with Tibbalds, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and FaulknerBrowns Architects

 

The Pineapple for Building

 

Unity Place, Milton Keynes, for Santander UK, with LOM architecture and design

Appleby Blue Almshouse, London Borough of Southwark, for United St Saviour’s Charity, Southwark Council and JTRE, with Witherford Watson Mann architects

Storyteller Library, Cinema & Housing, London Borough of Bexley, for London Borough of Bexley, with DRDH and Really Local Group
 

Soho Place, City of Westminster, for Derwent London and Nimax Theatres, with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Arup and Laing O’Rouke

Hackney Bridge, London Borough of Hackney, for Make Shift, with Turner Works

Living Wetland Theatre and Waterscapes Aviary, Slimbridge, for Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, with BD Landscape Architects, Kay Elliott Architects, Hoare Lea and David Dexter Engineers

The Pineapple for International Future Place


Singapore Makers Land, Singapore, for JTC, with Broadway Malyan, Savills and Arup

 

Micro Colony, Bangladesh, for GROHE, with UArchitects

 

Harkness Memorial, Melbourne, Australia, for Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, with McGregor Coxall, Aurecon, Architectus, Greenshoot Consulting, and Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

Sea Gardens, Bray, Ireland, for Ballymore, with Howells

 

The Pineapple for Place of the Year

 

Gascoigne East Phase 2, London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, for London Borough of Barking & Dagenham and Be First, with White Arkitekter, Civic Engineers, Turkington Martin and Willmott Dixon 
 

Unity Place, London Borough of Brent, for London Borough of Brent, with Gort Scott, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Alison Brooks Architects
 

Stanley Square, Sale, for Altered Space, with SimpsonHaugh Architects
 

Kampus, Manchester, for Capital & Centric and HBD, with Native Residential, Mecanoo, shedkm and Chapman Taylor
 

Springfield Village, London Borough of Wandsworth, for South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust and STEP (Joint venture between Sir Robert McAlpine, Capital Ventures and Kajima Partnerships)


Your New Town Hall, London Borough of Lambeth, for Muse and Lambeth Council, with Cartwright Pickard


MediaCity and Quayside, Salford, for Peel Media and Landsec, with Chapman Taylor 
 

Magna Square, Egham, for Runnymede Borough Council and Places for People, with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Elliott Wood, Atelier 10 and Graham Construction

 


  • Register now to attend the Festival of Pineapples, 16-18 April online via Airmeet for the live judging of The Pineapples

  • Buy your ticket to attend The Pineapples Prizegiving Party on 16 May at St Andrew Holborn 

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