NLA Reveals Shortlist for Don’t Move, Improve! Awards

New London Architecture (NLA) released a shortlist for the 2016 edition of its Don’t Move, Improve! Awards—which are in their sixth iteration—of 33 London homes whose owners have elected to renovate rather than raze. This shortlist celebrates extensions to existing homes, many of which were in conservation areas, and, as such, had to be done with the utmost sensitivity to the buildings to which they were appended. The selected projects will be exhibited at the NLA’s London gallery within The Building Centre from January through March, with winners of the Don’t Move, Improve competition to be announced on January 21.

The jury for the 2016 Don’t Move, Improve! competition included Peter Murray, chairman of NLA; Russ Edwards, design director of Pocket Living; Kay Hughes, principle of Khaa; Dickon Robinson, ahousing consultant; Philippa Stockley, a journalist, editor, and critic specialising in architecture and design; Pia Benham, head of collections for Heal’s; Tamsie Thompson, director of RIBA London; and Amy Frearson, architecture editor of Dezeen.

See selections from the shortlist below, and see all of the shortlisted projects in ARCHITECT’s Project Gallery. Click on the links below each image for more information on each project.