About Us
Novak Hiles Architects are an award-winning design-led architects practice founded by Carla Novak and Adam Hiles in 2017. The practice invests great energy and passion in delivering projects that are beautifully conceived and finely executed.
The practice has recently won the Surface Design Award for Best Housing Project, has been a finalist in the BD Young Architect of the Year Awards in 2022 and 2024, as well as being recognised in the AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards, Don’t Move, Improve! Awards, Brick Awards, London Construction Awards and New London Architecture Awards.
Novak Hiles Architects seek to understand and respond to the specific characteristics and opportunities of each project site and brief to develop a unique design that is both exceptional and deliverable. We strongly believe in architecture that is practical, sensitive to its context and infused with character and delight.
The practice is able to deploy its extensive professional expertise in conjunction with a rigorous and imaginative design process to draw out creative opportunities for challenging sites, a process that we find hugely rewarding.
Directors Carla and Adam work together jointly on all projects. Every one of the practice’s projects is therefore genuinely rooted in a discursive process which is opened out to include our clients, makers and other collaborators - a process we find highly productive and rewarding.
As well as award success, the practice has been featured by the Architect’s Journal, Building Design, Ideal Home, Dwell Magazine, Dezeen, Grand Designs magazine, Archdaily and Avivre and published by The Architecture Foundation.
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Awards and Accolades
2025 / Surface Design Award for Housing 2025 - Winner
2025 / London Construction Awards 2025 Residential Project of the Year - Finalist
2024 / BD Young Architect of the Year 2024 - Finalist
2024 / AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024 - Shortlisted
2024 / Don't Move, Improve! Awards - Shortlisted
2024 / Architects’ Journal - Featured
2024 / Building Design - Featured
2023 / Brick Awards 2023 ‘Innovation’ and ‘Individual Housing Development’ categories - Shortlisted
2022 / BD Young Architect of the Year Award - Finalist
2022 / RIBA Practice of the Month June
2022 / New London Architecture (NLA) Don’t Move, Improve! Awards - Featured
2022 / Archdaily Building of the Year Awards - Nominated
2022 / Ideal Home - Featured
2021 / Dwell Magazine - Featured
2021 / Grand Designs Magazine - Featured
2021 / Archdaily - Featured
2021 / Avivre Magazine - Featured
2021 / New London Architecture (NLA) Don’t Move, Improve! Awards - Featured
2020 / RIBA J Rising Stars - Shortlisted
2020 / Architects’ Journal - Featured
2020 / Interior Design Magazine Best of the Year Awards, Outdoor Space Category - Finalist
2020 / Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards - Honourable Mention
2020 / Architecture Foundation ‘New Architects 4’ Publication - Featured
2019 / New London Architecture (NLA) Design Award, Homes Category - Shortlisted
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