Sekforde Arms Nominated for Architecture Today: Hospitality, Sport & Leisure Award

The Sekforde Arms, Clerkenwell has been named as finalists in the Hospitality, Sport & Leisure category for the 2024 Architecture Today Awards.

Supported by AccuRoof, the Brick Development Association, Leviat, The Concrete Centre, Total Synergy, and VMZINC, the over-arching aim of the awards is to engender a focus on building performance evaluation and shared learning that is essential if we are to bring about the step change in performance the industry so desperately needs. AT’s Awards Committee has shortlisted 31 buildings across ten categories: Education; Healthcare; Hospitality, Sport & Leisure; Individual house; Infrastructure & Public Realm; Mixed use & Retail; Religion & Culture; Residential; Workplace and International.

Each project team will present to our expert jury at a day of live crits on 18 September 2024 at The Building Society in London.

The winners of the Architecture Today Awards will be announced at a party at Battersea Power Station on 21 November 2024.

“In 2013, Chris Dyson Architects began restoring the Sekforde pub in Clerkenwell and constructing a new three-storey building. Despite poor facilities, the Grade II-listed pub featured impressive architecture, including a distinctive barrel-shaped frontage and a grand ballroom. The project involved revealing and restoring 200-year-old brickwork, adding a sympathetic timber shopfront, and blending the brick with the surroundings.

Completed in 2018, the restoration earned a RIBA London Sustainability Award for integrating reclaimed materials, a heat recovery system, and a ground source heat pump. The pub’s profits support the Sekforde House Trust educational charity, aligning with the client’s social goals.”