About the practice

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.