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Shortlist for The Pineapples 2025 awards announced
The 2025 shortlist for The Pineapples awards for place has been announced with 110 projects in the running for a golden pineapple for their contribution to place
The 2025 shortlist for The Pineapples awards for place has been announced with 110 projects in the running for a golden pineapple for their contribution to place. The Pineapples awards for place recognise built and future projects and initiatives that make a positive impact on places and people. See finalists across 18 categories present to the judges as they compete to win a golden pineapple.
The stage is now set for the judging of the awards at the live streamed Festival of Pineapples, which runs 25-27 February. Watch all 110 finalists present their projects to the judges who will ask questions before deliberating behind the scenes. The Festival of Pineapples is a free to attend online event, you can register here. All sessions are recorded. Learn from exemplar case studies and support those competing to win a golden pineapple.
Winning projects will be announced and presented at The Pineapples awards party, in April 2025. Tickets will be on sale soon.
The Pineapples awards are in their 7th 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.
Categories of The Pineapples include: Place of the Year; Place in Progress; Future Place; Future Place: Up to 10ha; Future Public Realm, supported by Vestre; International Future Place; Creative Retrofit; Community Engagement; Public Space, supported by Vestre; Activation; Climate Resilience; Building; Community Spaces; and Infrastructure.
This year saw the addition of several new categories as well, including Healthy Homes, run in association with the TCPA and supported by Wates Group for housing built according to the Healthy Homes principles. Other new categories include Child-friendly Place, Strategy and Community Engagement: Homes – recognising excellence in the engagement of residents and communities during the development of housing.
A curated selection of finalists will be invited to present their project on stage at Festival of Place at Boxpark Wembley in London on 2 July. The Pineapples stage is a popular stream at the one-day event featuring developers and designers presenting exemplary projects from across the UK.
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25 - 27 February, 2025: See all 110 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. Judges 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 2025 judges
Eleanor Fawcett, Head of Design, Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation
Elizabeth Rapoport, Director, Polygon Place Strategy
Noah Chulu Chinn, Co-founder, SUMweekly
Will Sandy, Founding Director, Will Sandy Design Studio
Duncan Laird, Head of Urban, National Trust
Frances Wright, Head of Community Partnering, TOWN
Nicola McLachlan, Architect / Director, Collective Architecture
Rene Sommer Lindsay, Associate Urban Designer, AtkinsRéalis
Sophie Thompson, Director, LDA Design
Jennifer Russell, Town Planning Manager, University of Glasgow Estates Directorate
Elaine Cresswell, Director, reshaped
Alice Lester, London Borough of Brent, Corporate Director for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration
Alison Benzimra, Head of Research and Influence, United St.Saviour
Azzees Minott, Chief Operating Officer, 2-3 Degrees
Ben Adams, Founding Director, Ben Adams Architects
Blossom Young, Head of Operations, Poplar HARCA
Chloe Mcfarlane, Community Engagement Consultant
Christopher Arthey, Director, Axiom Developments
Clive Nichol, Founder / CEO, Fabrix
Danna Walker, Founder / CEO, Built By Us
David West, Founding Director, Studio Egret West
Felicia Mattis-Rome, CEO, Business Launchpad
Felicity Maries, Programme manager - community development, partnerships and circular economy, Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
James Bowthorpe, Company Director, a-r-c-s
James Stockdale, Development Director, Muse
Jordan Whitewood-Neal, Researcher, Quality of Life Foundation
Julian Tollast, Head of Masterplanning and Design, Quintain
Kate Brown, Head of Strategic Communications, HUB
Larry Botchway, Co-Founder of POoR Collective , POoR Collective
Lucy Atlee, Senior Quality and Design Manager, Places for London
Magali Thomson, Project Lead for Placemaking, Great Ormond Street Hospital
Marie Williams, Founder and CEO, Dream Networks
Paul Monaghan, Executive Director, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Penny Halliday, Director of Meridian Water, Enfield Council
Rebecca Thomas, Director, Fathom Architects
Richard Coppell, Group Development Director, Urban&Civic
Rose Marshall, Associate Director, ING Media
Ruth Lin Wong Holmes, Head of Landscape and Public Realm, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Sharon Giffen, Head of Design, The Earls Court Development Company
Sophie Trotman, Head of Place Brand, Marketing & Comms, Notting Hill Genesis
Laura Cassulo, Regional Director, Stride Treglown
James Bruce, Director, Civic Engineers
Caroline Aikman, Director of Marketing, Brand & Place, MediaCity
Nick Barton, Strategic Project Manager, City Centre Growth & Infrastructure Team, Manchester City Council
Cathy Russell, Urban Design Director, Ryder Architecture
Catherine Dewar, Regional Director North West, Historic England
Paul Richards, Deputy Chief Executive, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Helen Rieman, Business Growth Director, Wates Residential
Daniel Black, Programme Director, TRUUD
Rosalie Callway, Town and Country Planning Association
Rasmus Astrup, Senior Partner & Design Principle, SLA
The Pineapples 2025 Shortlist
The Pineapple for Infrastructure
CB1, Cambridge for Brookgate with Robert Myers Associates and RSHP
Making High Holborn and Proctor Street safer, London Borough of Camden for London Borough of Camden
Walk, Cycle, Live Stirling, Stirling for Stirling Council with Ironside Farrar, Hillhouse Group, City Region Deal and Places for Everyone and Sustrans
Stretford Kingsway, Manchester for Trafford Borough Council with Civic Engineers, Exterior Architecture, The LK Group, Simon Fenton Partnership, A E Yates and FCBStudios
Broughty Ferry to Monifieth Active Travel Improvements, for Dundee City Council and Angus Council with Transport Scotland, Sustrans, SYSTRA
Cycleway 9, London Borough of Hounslow for London Borough of Hounslow with Project Centre, Hounslow Highways and Transport for London
The Pineapple for Community Engagement
The Public Realm Inclusivity Panel Earls Court Masterplan, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham for The Earls Court Development Company with ZCD Architects
The Changing Rooms, Liverpool for Growing Sudley CIC with Harrison Stringfellow
Night Time Strategy Wandsworth, London Borough of Wandsworth for Wandsworth Council with Commonplace
Blackbird Leys Community Centre Community Engagement, Oxford for Oxford City Council and Peabody with by Transition by Design Cooperative, JTP, Jessop & Cook, Ireland Albrecht and Savills
Lewisham Shopping Centre, London Borough of Lewisham for LandsecU+I with Studio Egret West
Firs & Bromford Pocket Park, Birmingham for Open Door Community Foundation and Birmingham City Council with National Trust, Intervention Architecture, and the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund
Reviving Greyfriars: The Heart of Northampton, Reimagined by its People, Northampton for West Northamptonshire Council with Deetu and Studio Egret West
The Pineapple for Climate Resilience
Lee Valley Ice Centre, London Borough of Waltham Forest for Lee Valley Regional Park Authority with LDA Design, FaulknerBrowns, Expedition Engineering, Max Fordham and BSG Ecology
Notting Dale Heat, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with Tonkin Liu Architects, and Sustainability Co.
London Legacy Development Corporation Climate Resilience Review, London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Waltham Forest for London Legacy Development Corporation with Greengage and Planit
‘Urban mining’ at The Elephant and TBC.London, London Boroughs of Westminster and Southwark for Publica Properties and Ing Media with Civic Engineers, FORE Partnership and Webb Yates Engineers
1 & 2 MacFarlane Place, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham for Stanhope and Peabody with Maccreanor Lavington, Gillespies and ARUP
The Pineapple for Healthy Homes, in association with the TCPA and supported by Wates Group
The Bourne, Hook Norton for Hook Norton Community Land Trust Project and Greencore Homes with Charlie Luxton Design
Hazelmead, Bridport for Bridport Cohousing CLT with Barefoot Architects
Cannock Mill Cohousing, Colchester for Cannock Mill Cohousing Colchester Ltd with Anne Thorne Architects LLP and Studio Suetake (Millers House)
Appleby Blue Almshouse, London Borough of Southwark for United St. Saviour’s Charity with Witherford Watson Mann
Agar Grove, London Borough of Camden for The London Borough of Camden and The Residents of the Agar Grove Estate with Hawkins\Brown and Mae
Greenhaus, Salford for ECF and Salix Homes with Buttress Architects
The Pineapple for Strategy
Neasden Town Centre: Placemaking and Sustainability Action Plan, London Borough of Brent for London Borough of Brent with with Sanchez Benton Architects, Rumi Bose, Concept Culture and Where Pathways Meet
LEMONADE Project, Bermondsey for Bournemouth University and United St. Saviour’s Charity with Dunhill Medical Trust
Safer Parks - Improving Access For Women And Girls, West Yorkshire for West Yorkshire Combined Authority with Harper Perry, University of Leeds, Keep Britain Tidy/Green Flag Award and Make Space for Girls
Public Realm and Green Infrastructure Supplementary Planning Document, London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham for Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation with Publica and Temple
Lancaster West Neighbourhood Strategy, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team
Sustainable Development Framework, London Borough of Westminster for Places for London
The Pineapple for Future Place: Up to 10ha
Wembley Housing Zone, London Borough of Brent for Wates Group with Brent Council and the Mayor of London
The Hyde, London Borough of Barnet for Casa Bella Developments Ltd with Peter Barber Architects
Greyfriars Green, Northampton for West Northamptonshire Council with Studio Egret West
The Harbour Plan, Folkestone for Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Company with A IS FOR ARCHITECTURE and Spacehub
Stroudley Walk, London Borough of Tower Hamlets for Muse with Poplar HARCA
St Helier Harbour Masterplan, St Helier for Ports of Jersey with Broadway Malyan, Mott MacDonald and Waddington
The Pineapple for Creative Retrofit
Mary Ward Centre, London Borough of Newham for Mary Ward Settlement with AWW
Andover Community Workspace, London Borough of Islington for Islington Council with Studio Partington
Powerhouse, London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for Hutchison Property Group with Farrells, Formation Architects, AECOM, Buro Happold and Randle Siddeley
York Guildhall, York for City of York Council with Burrell Foley Fischer, SGA Consulting, Arup and Turner and Townsend
Cultural Revival at 24 Guildhall Road, Northampton for West Northamptonshire Council and NN Contemporary Arts Collective with pHp Architects, CS2, TEP, Overbury, Steele & Bray, Sean Griffiths and Giles Round
East & South East Asian Community Centre At the Old Bath House, London Borough of Hackney for London Borough of Hackney, Hackney Chinese Community Services and Greater London Authority with HP Architects, Architecture 00, BWA, Ash Contracting, BCA, CTP and Huntley Cartwright
Norton Folgate, London Borough of Tower Hamlets for British Land with Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, DSDHA, Morris + Co, Stanton Williams and EAST
The Pineapple for Public Space, Supported by Vestre
Eden Dock, London Borough of Tower Hamlets for Canary Wharf Group with Howells, HTA Design and Greengage
Barclays Beco Dragonfly Plot 4, Glasgow, Drum Property with OOBE, Stallan-Brand, Turner & Townsend, BDP, AECOM, Arup and TUV SUD
Green Heart, Nottingham for Nottingham City Council with Townshend Landscape Architects and Ares Landscape Architects
Bradford’s Top of Town Public Realm, Bradford for City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council with Turner & Townsend, Eric Wright Civil Engineering, Gavin Jones Ltd, Social Communication Group, Public Sector Access Limited, National Lottery Heritage Fund, European Regional Development FundEnvironmental Policy Consulting Ltd
Market Street, Oxford for Oxford City Council with Urban Movement and Civic Engineers
The Pineapple for Place of the Year
Graylingwell Park, Chichester for Linden Homes, Affinity Sutton and Homes England with JTP
Gascoigne West Phase 2, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for Be First and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham with White Arkitekter and Wates Residential
Dollman Farm, Rugby for Urban&Civic and Aviva Investors
James Court at Ilona Rose House, London Borough of Westminster for Soho Estates with MATT Architecture and Townshend Landscape Architects.
Lewisham Gateway, London Borough of Lewisham for Muse with London Borough of Lewisham, Greater London Authority, Network Rail, Transport for London and Balfour Beatty
Hale Wharf, London Borough of Haringey for Waterside Places (a joint venture between Muse and Canal & River Trust), London Borough of Haringey and the GLA with Allies and Morrison
Tower Court, London Borough of Hackney for Hackney Council and Countryside Properties with Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art
The Pineapple for Activation
Knitting the Air, London Borough of Tower Hamlets for Poplar HARCA with the knitters of East London, EcoWorld London and The Aberfeldy Practice
Pavilion on The Green, London Borough of Enfield for Enfield Council with Fisher Cheng, Doodle Designs, Engineers HRW and Sullivan Brothers Construction
Thamesmead Festival, Borough of Bexley for Peabody with Festival Production Group and Serious
Restoring Earls Court from an empty site back into a global destination, London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for The Earls Court Development Company with Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West
Our Purple City, Milton Keynes for MyMilton Keynes Business Improvement District with centre:mk, Midsummer Place and Milton Keynes Theatre
Emerge East, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for Barking Riverside Limited with HemingwayDesign
London Mural Festival, London for Global Street Art and partners
The Pineapple for Community Space
Station South, Manchester for Station South CIC with reShaped, Jonathan Davidson Architects, Cinns Ltd., Westlakes Engineering and Ed Brandon Mezziani
The Paper Garden, London Borough of Southwark for Global Generation with Jan Kattein Architects
The LightHouse & Gardens, London Borough of Newham for Hadley Property Group with Community Saunas CIC, El Cafecito Cafe, Elite Project Services, Brompton Hire, Enterprise and London Legacy Corporation
Totterdown Street Market, London Borough of Wandsworth for Wandsworth Council with Project Centre Limited
The Bell, Ticehurst for AreYou? with Here Comes Tomorrow and Chris Baxter
Ffos Caerffili, Caerphilly for Caerphilly County Borough Council with Stride Treglown, Lancer Scott, Arup, and Currie & Brown
The Pineapple for Future Place
The Earls Court Masterplan, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for the Earls Court Development Company with Studio Egret West and Hawkins/Brown
Central Docks Liverpool Waters, Liverpool for Peel Waters, Homes England and Liverpool City Council with Planit, Virtual Planit, Arup, Hive Projects, Curtins, Hannan Associates, Civic Engineers and Place and Context
The Carpenters Estate Masterplan, London Borough of Newham for Populo Living with Proctor and Matthews, Metropolitan Workshop, Tibbalds, LDA Design, XCO2, make:good and Campbell Reith
Waterloo Station Masterplan, London Borough of Lambeth for Lambeth Council and Network Rail with Grimshaw, Gbolade Design Studio, Exterior Architecture, WSP, Hatch, Iceni, Turner & Townsend and Savills
Campbell Park, Milton Keynes for Urban Splash and Glenbrook with Howells Architects
Hind Street, Birkenhead for Ion Property Developments with BDP
Hartree, Cambridge for LandsecU+I and TOWN with Anglian Water and Cambridge City by Kjellander Sjoberg, LOLA, Useful Projects, Pell Frischmann, Carter Jonas, Bell Phillips, Haworth Tompkins, Turner Townsend alinea and ECF
The Pineapple for Child-Friendly Places
Kennington Oval Reimagined, London Borough of Lambeth for London Borough of Lambeth with Churchman Thornhill Finch, Alan Baxter and Streets Reimagined
Pounds Park, Sheffield for Sheffield City Council with Planit, ARUP, Henry Boot PLC Construction, Whittam Cox Architects and Dudleys
On The Way Play SK, Stockport for Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council with Civic and Social, and Timberplay
Parade Park, Aldershot, for The Defence Infrastructure Organisation and Grainger PLC with Allen Pyke Associates, Eibe Play ltd, Lawrence Foote and Partners (London) Ltd and Millgrove Construction Ltd
Growing Together, Bradford for City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Bradford Health Research Institute with Exemplar Project: Kashmir Park, JU:MP, Active Bradford, Local Schools, Sport England, Department for Transport, Active Travel Fund, EU Interreg BEGIN, Play Bradford, Manningham Mills Sports Association and Partner
Waterden Green Space for Teenage Girls, London Borough of Newham for London Legacy Development Corporation and Elevate with Studio Gil, Black Females in Architecture, Untitled Practice, Light Follows Behaviour and Simple Works
The Pineapple for Future Public Realm, supported by Vestre
Health Innovation Neighbourhood, Newcastle upon Tyne for Newcastle University and Genr8 Kajima Regeneration with Gillespies, GSS Architecture, Pegasus Group, Biodiverse Consulting, SHED, Max Fordham and Mosodi
The Barbican Podium, City of London for The City of London Corporation with AtkinsRéalis, Nigel Dunnett, Lord Consulting Ltd, CommComm and Stace
Castlefield Viaduct Vision, Manchester for The National Trust with BDP
Grosvenor Square Gardens, City of Westminster for Grosvenor with BDP, AKTII, Integration, Jackson Coles, Nigel Dunnett, Gary Grant, Tim Moya Associates and Donald Insall Associates
Lewisham Shopping Centre, London Borough of Lewisham for LandsecU+I with Studio Egret West
Liverpool Green Lanes, Liverpool for Ryder Architecture and Okana
The Pineapple for Place in Progress
Riverside Sunderland, Sunderland for Sunderland City Council, Legal & General, Canada Life, Igloo Regeneration Limited, The Cairn Group, Placefirst Limited with Proctor Matthews Architects, FaulknerBrowns Architects, Building Design (Northern) Limited, Arup, Ryder, Mawson Kerr Architects, Cundall
Hastings Commons, Hastings for Hastings Commons Neighbourhood Ventures with IF_DO, Purcell, Buxton, 8Build, Webb Yates, Max Fordham and Simple Works
Stockport Town Centre West, Stockport, for Stockport Mayoral Development Corporation with Stockport Council, GMCA and Homes England
Greenford Quay, London Borough of Ealing for Greystar and Ivanhoe Cambridge with Tide Construction, Vision and HTA Design
Central Somers Town, London Borough of Camden for London Borough of Camden with DSDHA, Adam Khan Architects, Hayhurst & Co, Morris+Company and dRMM
Sandygate, Burnley for Burnley Council and University of Central Lancashire, with Capita, Campbell Driver and DAY
The Pineapple for Building
Ilona Rose House, London Borough of Westminster for Soho Estates Limited with MATT Architecture and Townshend Landscape Architects
Forest Road, London Borough of Waltham Forest for Pocket Living with Gort Scott
UCL East Marshgate, London Borough of Newham for University College London with Stanton Williams Sheppard Robson, Mace Ltd, Vogt Landscape, AKT II and Arup
Eden, Salford for ECF and Salford City Council with Make Architects and Cundall
8 Bishopsgate, City of London for Mitsubishi and Stanhope with WilkinsonEyre, Turner & Townsend alinea and Arup
The Lab ARU Peterborough, Peterborough for Propco1 with MCW Architects, Morgan Sindall, Mace, Smith and Wallwork, CPW and LUC
The Pineapple for International Future Place
Nairobi Central Station, Nairobi, Kenya for Kenya Railway Company with AtkinsRéalis
Mynzhyldyk Alley, Astana, Kazakhstan for Akimat with LDA Design and Centre of Urbanism
David Crombie Park Revitalization, Toronto, Canada for the City of Toronto by SLA, Arcadis and Tawaw Collective
Downsview Framework Plan, Toronto, Canada for Northcrest Developments and Canada Lands Company with Henning Larsen, KPMB Architects, SLA, Urban Strategies Inc., BA Group, Transsolar, ARUP, Ramboll, Purpose Building, Third Party Public, Department of Words and Deeds, Nbisiing Consulting Inc., Monumental Projects Inc and Future Simple Studio
The Pineapple for Community Engagement: Homes
The ’People of Houlton’ Community Group Consortium, Houlton for Urban&Civic
Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Youth Engagement, Colchester for Latimer with MATT+FIONA
Cables Wynd & Linksview House Retrofit, Edinburgh for City of Edinburgh Council with Atkins Réalis, Collective Architecture, Collective Energy, Urban Pioneers, Narros, and Blackwood Partnership
Tower Court, London Borough of Hackney for Hackney Council with Adam Khan Architects and muf architecture/art
Becontree Future House, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham for Be First with Archio and Urban Symbiotics
Curry Rise and Bray Road, London Borough of Barnet for Notting Hill Genesis with PRP Architects HGH Planning, HTA Landscape Architects, CommComm and Tpas
Ashley Road Depot Legacy Project, London Borough of Haringey for Haringey Council with Liz Hingley, Levitt Bernstein and Formation Design & Build
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