2020
2020 Winners
2020 Commercial Awards
Best Amazing Space
Delamere Heath
JDA Architects
“The whole team at JDA Architects are simply delighted that Delamere Health has won. The building’s success was founded on a client and design team that came together to create an Amazing Space and the recognition at the end of what has been a hugely challenging year really is perfectly timed!! Fantastic!!”
JDA Architects
Best Architectural Practice
Corstorphine + Wright Architects
“We are passionate about design and are incredibly proud to have won 2 awards at the 2020 Northern Design Awards.”
Best Commercial Build
Skelton Lake MSA
Corstorphine + Wright Architects
Best Designer Maker
Bisca Staircases
“Recognition of great design is always appreciated. I think it is especially valued by the whole Bisca team. It is a privilege to be working with a team of designers and crafts people who love their work and care passionately about producing stunning staircases for our customers”
Best Hotel Interior Design
Bike & Boot Inns
Rachel McLane Ltd
“Winning a Northern Design Award not only gives us greater credibility and shows confidence in the work of the Rachel McLane team, it affirms that our designs are of the highest calibre and that we 'know what we're doing'. In what has been a very difficult year, winning the award also shows we have the business systems and people in place to enable us to push on and accomplish a challenging project.
It takes years of experience to get this far and I think it's no accident that the core of the Rachel McLane Ltd team have been together for the last decade so this award is a testimony for all of our work. We've all pulled together to realise the design vision for the Bike & Boot alongside the hotel owners who worked closely with us and who believed in us.
We've been a finalist four times previously, so this is a real pleasure to finally win!”
Rachel McLane Ltd
Best Interior Design Practice
Collective Design
"I am super proud that Collective Design won Commerical Interior Design Practice of the year at the Northern Design Awards. It has made all the hard work worthwhile.
Since winning the award we have had amazing feedback from our clients. The recognition it has given us has been far greater then we could have ever imagined and has helped raise our profile. I was so excited to have been shortlisted but to have won on the night was a phenomenal achievement for our Design Practice."
Simon Mcilwraith
Best Interior Design Project < £100k
The Harrows
The Interior Design Practice
We feel so privileged to win this award and it is testament to all the hard work completed throughout this challenging year. It was the perfect end to a year, that will shape our future projects and drive us forward with the resilience and passion to make 2021 and beyond, an exciting adventure for all at The Interior Design Practice. Fantastic achievement!!
Best Interior Design Project £100k - £250k
River Street Tower
K K A Interiors
“We are beyond thrilled to have won in the Commercial Interior Design category for River Street Tower!
Northern Design has shown resilience this year and we are so proud of our team for their unwavering hard work & talent!”
KKA Interiors
Best Interior Design Project £250k - £500k
Riverside House
SpaceInvader
We’re really pleased to have won the Interior Design Project award for our work on MUSE, Riverside House. This project sums up what we aim to do as a studio, helping our clients to work in new, more efficient and collaborative ways that embrace new technologies. The project has strengthened the culture at MUSE, brought people together and worked in synergy with their brand. A big thanks to MUSE for trusting us and to the whole team involved who made the project happen.
John Williams - SpaceInvader
Best Interior Design Project > £500k
Athelis Club & Spa
APM Design Ltd
“We would just like to say what a massive honour it is for APM to win this award, it means a great deal to us all and is recognition for all the teams hard work this year.
2020 has been an extraordinary and unprecedentedly difficult year for the whole World. Winning this award has therefore given us a much needed boost. We now approach 2021 with a renewed and optimistic vigour and look forward to demonstrating what APM can offer in the year ahead, to ensure that Northern Design continues to lead the way.”
Andy McCluskey - APM Design
Best Restaurant and Bar Design < £250k
William's Food Hall
Concorde BGW Group
“We are over the moon to have won not one, but two Northern design awards! Wow!
Winning these awards is a fantastic end to what has been a difficult year for us and many of our clients too, but these awards set us up for a great start to 2021 and we are absolutely thrilled!”
Concorde BGW Group
Best Restaurant and Bar Design > £250k
Ragdale Hall Spa - Twilight Lounge
Concorde BGW Group
Best Landscaping Design
The Stylus
Natural Dimensions
“We are absolutely thrilled that our work on this large roof park project has been recognised in the commercial landscape category by such a prestigious award. It’s a great moment for the business to win a Northern Design Award and a great way to showcase the potential of green infrastructure!“
Nick Atherton - Natural Dimensions
2020 Residential Awards
Best Amazing Space
Venus House
Studio SDA Architecture
It is a huge achievement for us to be shortlisted as a finalist for the NDAs and we are very proud of our involvement with the NDAs and everything that they stand for. To win in four categories when the calibre of the other entries is so high is absolutely unbelievable and is a much needed pat on the back for all the hard work and effort that Simon, myself and the SDA team have put into every project over the past 12 months and for the support all our clients have shown us during this toughest of years.
We would like to thank the NDAs team and judges for continuing with the awards this year, it is commendable to make the decision to proceed with the awards in 2020 when it would have been so easy to use Covid-19 as a reason not to. We will, as we have in the past, wear our winners badges with pride and express our congratulations to all the other shortlisted finalists and winners.
Katie Lewis Pierpoint - Studio SDA
Best Interior Design Practice
Cream & Black Interior Design
“We are honoured to have won – Best Interior Design Practice 2020 at the Northern design awards, It’s such a positive way for us to end the year!”
Laura Hegan-Smith - Cream & Black Interior Design
Best Interior Design Project < £150k
Stanley House
Keyhole Interiors Ltd
Best Kitchen Space < £50k
St Lukes Church Conversion - Kitchen
Studio SDA Architecture
Best Kitchen Space > £50k
RMD Kitchen Design - Hale
Rachel Moore Design
“We are all absolutely thrilled to have won the 2020 Award for the Best Kitchen Space. The team at RMD are dedicated to delivering the best design and service possible for all our clients and to have our hard work recognised by some of the best in the industry and amongst some amazing competition is absolutely wonderful!”
Rachel Moore - RMD Design Studio
Best Residential Build
Gatesgarth
Ben Cunliffe Architects
10 + years ago we first entered the awards as a small practice in the beautiful Lake District National Park. It was an utter surprise as a small practice to be recognised by the Northern Design Awards, the team, sponsors and our colleagues.
I had taken my bow tie off by time the final awards were being announced, and I had to walk to the front without black tie !!
10 years later the standard of the entries, and the art and skill, has risen year by year. As a medium sized practice, no surprise nor pleasure has diminished in having our work, which we love, appreciated by our peers in our fabulous North of England.
Achieving Best Residential Build in an area where creativity has to be respectful to its heritage, surroundings and the landscape has been a special thrill. In this tough profession, and a difficult 2020, the award was a highlight in a year of determination for our hard working team.
We remain as we were a decade ago, thankful to our clients aspirations and support, humbled, privileged and delighted by our colleagues and the NDA team. Thank you so much and best wishes for 2021.
Best Landscaping Design Project
Darley Road
Bestall & Co Landscape Design Ltd
”What a fabulous way to end the year! We’d normally have been on our team Christmas party day today so this was a great surprise to see that we’d won this award. It’s been a challenging year for many, but we’re excited and honoured to have been chosen for the award. We’re currently working on our largest ever project, so am looking forward to entering that for next year!
Bestall & Co Landscape Design
Best Social and Assisted Living Project
Elmswood Park
Studio Henderson
“We are over the moon to hear that we are winners on both flagship schemes we have completed in 2020.
To win the ‘‘Best Social and Assisted Living Project’ for Elmswood Park, our client, Mosscare - St Vincents are overjoyed to share in this fantastic award for their first flagship, over 55’s scheme in Manchester.
Also to receive acknowledgement for our interior design of Delamere Health, a one of a kind rehab centre in the U.K; scooping the
’Best Amazing Space’ award. Both Studio Henderson & JDA Architects are both humbled and delighted for our client, Martin Preston.
We tried something different, a change of direction, one of a kind in the U.K and it’s worked!
With our expertise in designing for all aspects of care, we are delighted to receive this coveted recognition in the North.”