New Hammersmith Meeting House wins award

‘This is a special jewel in the Bradmore Park Road street environment. It celebrates the opportunity of an open site to create a graceful pause in the line of Victorian terraces.'

The new Hammersmith Meeting House has won an award celebrating it as ‘a special jewel’.

The building on Bradmore Park Road won the Hammersmith Society’s Environment Award in September. The environmentally-friendly Meeting house was designed by Stewart Dodd to meet high standards of environmental sustainability. In its citation the society said: ‘This is a special jewel in the Bradmore Park Road street environment. It celebrates the opportunity of an open site to create a graceful pause in the line of Victorian terraces, each side sharing its front landscaping with the street… The high rotunda reveals itself in longer street views, a sculptural form which expresses the Meeting Room, the heart of the building within.’

The design and construction was paid for by Hammersmith and Fulham council and its partner A2Dominion. Hammersmith and Fulham leader, councillor Stephen Cowan, visited the site last month, praising the new building for reflecting Quakers’ ‘profound commitment to our environment’.

Victoria Timberlake, a member of Hammersmith Meeting, said that they hope the building will be ‘a beacon of environmental sustainability to the Hammersmith community’.

‘Our building reflects our values of simplicity, equality and peace. We are grateful to the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham for our site on Bradmore Park Road. We are especially pleased that our previous site will be used for truly affordable housing.’

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