Paddington Elizabeth Line Station wins RIBA National Award 2024

The RIBA National Awards are given to buildings across the UK in recognition of their significant contributions to architecture - the 'best new buildings' in the UK.

The awards, which have been presented since 1966, provide insight into the country’s architecture, design and social trends.

Our Elizabeth Line Station was recognised for its transformation of the passenger experience at Paddington, making the station easier to move around and bringing daylight and natural ventilation deep into the ground. The station shows how easily award-winning architecture can be woven into people's lives - a true testament to one of our core values: designing projects are people-focused, putting the everyday human experience at the heart of our design.

Described in the RIBA Journal as "a quite remarkable and transformative experience of travel, [and] even impresses compared to the other Elizabeth Line stations ... Paddington Station long needed a bold remaking and it’s a credit to [WW+P] that it saw and created the opportunities, and carried them through."

The station has been the recent recipient of a RIBA London Award, as well as a Civic Trust Award and the Prix Versailles World Title in 2023. The accolades are a testament to the strength of collaboration generated from ministers, economists and politicians through to designers, builders, manufacturers and operators.

We celebrate the win with our partners on the project: Transport for London, AECOM, WSP, Gillespies, Costain Group PLC and Skanska.