NOOMA Studio Wins Best Built Environment Practice Award
- Jan 20
- 1 min read
Updated: 3 hours ago
National recognition for embedding social value and youth engagement into practice.
NOOMA Studio has been awarded Best Built Environment Practice at the Inspire Future Generations Awards 2025, organised by the Thornton Education Trust.
The judges commended the studio’s clear alignment between its outreach work and its architectural output, describing it as a small practice with significant and measurable impact. The award recognises practices that embed social value, mentoring, outreach and youth engagement into the core of their operations rather than treating them as peripheral initiatives.
For NOOMA Studio, this recognition reflects a long-term commitment to placing children and young people within the authorship of architecture. Workshops, mentoring, school engagement and youth-led consultation are positioned not as add-ons, but as formative influences shaping briefing, design development and long-term stewardship thinking.
The award affirms that architectural practice can operate as both a design service and a civic platform, supporting the next generation to see themselves within the built environment professions while strengthening the social foundations of projects.
