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Highgate East and The Blooming Shed recognised in prestigious healthcare design awards

We’re delighted to share that two of our most innovative and thoughtful healthcare projects—Highgate East and The Blooming Shed at Chase Farm Hospital—have received significant recognition in this year’s leading architecture and healthcare design awards.

Highgate East: shortlisted for European healthcare design 2025 award

Highgate East, our new state-of-the-art mental health facility designed in partnership with Ryder Architecture, has been shortlisted for the European Healthcare Designs (EHD) 2025 Awards in the category of Healthcare Design (Under 25,000 sqm).
Held as part of the 11th European Healthcare Design Congress, the awards recognise excellence in the design and delivery of healthcare environments across the globe. Highgate East is being celebrated for its urban integration, environmental sustainability, and its impact in transforming the experience of care for service users, staff and the wider community.
This highly competitive category includes international finalists from Spain and Australia, and will be judged in a live session on 9 May, with the winners announced on 12 May at a ceremony at the Royal College of Physicians, followed by a garden celebration in the venue’s medicinal gardens. The ceremony will also be streamed worldwide on SALUS TV.
Pictures of Highgate East
Image of highgate east from the inside, a bright modern room with brown chairs and a flat screen TV on the wall Highgate East external view

The Blooming Shed at Chase Farm: recognition at AJ small projects & European healthcare design awards 

Meanwhile, The Blooming Shed—a beautifully conceived space at Chase Farm Hospital, created to support recovery and wellbeing—has been shortlisted for the 2025 Architects’ Journal (AJ) Small Projects Awards, a competition known for highlighting exceptional smaller-scale architectural work across the UK. This year marks the 30th edition of the AJ Awards, with over 160 submissions and just 30 shortlisted. Winners will be announced shortly, and we are thrilled to be in the running.
In addition, The Blooming Shed has also gained recognition in the European Healthcare Design Awards, where it has been shortlisted in the Mental Health Design category. This category celebrates outstanding therapeutic environments that support mental health recovery through sensitive, human-centred design. The team will present the project to the judging panel on 13 June, with the winners announced during the Congress on 10 June.
You can watch a short film created for the European submission here: Watch the film
The Blooming Shed
The blooming shed image on a sunny day, surrounded by trees. Red industraial style building with arches and big windows
Together, Highgate East and The Blooming Shed reflect our Trust’s commitment to designing environments that are not only functional and accessible but also inspiring, inclusive and healing. These recognitions are a testament to the collaborative spirit and creativity of our project teams and design partners.
We look forward to the upcoming awards ceremonies and to continuing our journey of delivering world-class environments for health and wellbeing.

Posted on at by Stephanie Cram

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