RIBA AWARD WINNING HOMES the Need to Deliver More Housing Is an Issue That Connects People from All Walks of Life

D E S I G N M AT T E R S RIBA AWARD WINNING HOMES The need to deliver more housing is an issue that connects people from all walks of life. Its importance is demonstrated by politicians increasingly outbidding each other over the number of homes they can build in an eﬀort to convince voters that they can achieve the scale of house building required to meet current need. While we can all get behind a target of 300,000 new homes a year, it’s equally important to consider the quality of what we are building. Sacriﬁcing quality in order to increase housing numbers is an unsustainable solution that will create long term problems that need addressing further down the line. 20 Good design is central to delivering sustainable homes and communities that will last into the future. The projects highlighted here are great examples of what is possible 1 if you invest the time to understand the relationship between design and the local area. We hope that this 21 collection can inspire discussions across England about 10 how to improve design standards. 22 9

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2 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 3 While calling for good design is easy enough, describing what this looks like is more complex. The recent report published by the RIBA, Ten Characteristics of Places where People want to Live, identified the necessary environment and processes that, if followed, can deliver high quality, sustainable neighbourhoods, centred on successful examples of mixed communities. This document follows on from that work by narrowing the focus to housing, showcasing examples of excellent standards of design that can be replicated across the country. Each development provides an innovative approach to addressing housing need in the context of its locality. This is crucial to ensuring that we deliver homes that genuinely meet local need and are acceptable to the local communities that they will RIBA YORKSHIRE inevitably impact on. Derwenthorpe Phase One Good design goes beyond aesthetic. Location 1 Osbaldwick, York Architect When done properly, it has the potential to raise health Studio Partington Client/Developer One of the first large scale low-carbon communities outcomes, improve the local environment and address a Joseph Rowntree Foundation Trust in Northern England. Derwenthorpe is a mixed Contractor tenure, exemplar community of energy efficient wide range of other issues. If we are serious about building David Wilson Homes homes on the outskirts of York. The site includes high quality, sustainable homes that will last, promoting No. Units 40% affordable units for sale to local families and 64 low energy homes has won many awards including; RIBA National good design needs to be at the forefront of our approach. Category & Regional 2017, Inside Housing’s Best Affordable Surburban Development, Regional Sustainability, AJ Awards Sustainable Project of the Year 2017, Civic Trust Award 2014, and Housing Design Awards 2013.

2017 RIBA Yorkshire Award RIBA Yorkshire Sustainability Award RIBA Yorkshire Project Architect of the Year Adam Cornish RIBA National Award 4 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 5 RIBA SOUTH WEST RIBA SOUTH WEST Challender Court Temple Gardens

Location Location 2 Henbury, Bristol 3 Temple Cloud, Bristol Architect Architect Emmett Russell Architects Archio Client/Developer Client/Developer Bristol City Council Bath & Stratford Homes Ltd Contractor Challender Court demonstrates a creative response Contractor The Temple Inn was a disused pub at the historic Melhuish and Saunders to the UK’s housing crisis, making excellent use of Ken Biggs Contractors Ltd heart of Temple Cloud. This development has No. Units a constrained, brownﬁeld Bristol City Council site No. Units restored and reopened the pub and provided ten 8 one bed ﬂats to provide eight one bed apartments which respond 10 hotel rooms & 9 houses hotel rooms and nine houses around a communal Category to a brief that requested robust, low maintenance Category landscape. The project has brought new life to the Town/Village and low energy properties. Town/Village village centre and has demonstrated that contemporary architecture, inspired by the vernacular, can achieve quality design which feels rooted in place.

2018 2018 RIBA South West Award RIBA South West Award RIBA South West Sustainability Award RIBA South West Project Architect of the Year Award for Kyle Buchanan

6 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 7 RIBA SOUTH EAST RIBA SOUTH Cinque Ports Street Exhibition Mews

Location Location 4 Rye, East Sussex 5 Bordon, Hampshire Architect Architect Dunn Architects Limited Ash Sakula Architects Client/Developer Client/Developer Cinque Ports Developments Radian Group Contractor This project was built on a former industrial site that Contractor Exhibition Mews is a prototype terrace of three Jenner Contractors included the remains of Rye’s medieval town wall F E Chase low-carbon, low-energy homes for social rent. No. Units (a Scheduled Ancient Monument). The scheme is No. Units This is the outcome of Ash Sakula’s winning 6 flats, 2 penthouses, 1 studio unit, predominantly for residential use but includes retail 3 carbon neutral homes entry in an open competition to design affordable 1 detatched house, 2 retail units use too. Prior to redevelopment, the site had laid Category and highly sustainable homes that would be Category derelict for over 12 years. Surburban capable of replication. The project is the first phase Town/Village of a wider regeneration of the area involving 3,350 new homes.

2016 2016 RIBA South East Award RIBA South Award

8 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 9 RIBA SOUTH RIBA EAST Barns Road Abode

Location Location 6 Cowley, Oxfordshire 7 Great Kneighton, Cambridgeshire Architect Architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Proctor and Matthews Architects Client/Developer Client/Developer Green Square Group Countryside Properties UK Contractor Barns Road is a major new development of Contractor Built on the former Clay Farm site, Abode at Feltham Construction affordable housing, which is the first phase of three Countryside Properties plc Great Kneighton is a key part of a major housing No. Units interrelated sites aiming towards 70% affordable No. Units and mixed-use development consisting of 40% 40 residential units housing across all sites. Delivering a range of 306 homes with 40% affordable housing affordable housing in South Cambridge. The design Category affordable tenure homes for sale and for rent, Barns Category consists of a hierarchy of spaces and housing types Surburban Road is also a mixed-use development. Town/Village to suit the transition from urban to rural edge.

2017 2015 RIBA South Award RIBA East Award Project Architect Award Building of the Year

10 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 11 RIBA EAST RIBA EAST MIDLANDS Bruyn’s Court Nottingham One

Location Apartments & Offices 8 Thurrock, Essex Architect Location Bell Phillips Architects 9 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Client/Developer Architect Thurrock Council Levitate Contractor Bruyn’s Court is the first retirement home built for Client/Developer A brownfield site demonstrating how high-density Willmott Dixon Thurrock Council in 30 years. The development Select Group urban housing can be provided in the city, layered No. Units provides one and two bedroom homes built to Contractor with commercial office spaces. Nottingham One 25 one-bedroom homes HAPPI (Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Willmott Dixon Apartments & Offices provides 40% affordable Category Innovation) standard.” The project has won a Civic No. Units homes, with shared front doors for all types of Town/Village Trust Award commendation, RIBA National and 100 affordable homes and 136 private units. residential tenures. It creates a new pedestrian route Regional Awards. Category and canal side square for the city, engaging with a City broad range of stakeholders as part of Nottingham City Council’s strategic vision for the city.

2016 2016 RIBA National Award RIBA East Midlands Award RIBA East Award RIBA East Client of the Year RIBA East Project of the Year 12 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 13 RIBA EAST MIDLANDS RIBA EAST Parkside The Avenue

Location Location 10 Matlock, Derbyshire 11 Saﬀron Walden, Essex Architect Architect Evans Vettori Architects Pollard Thomas Edwards Client/Developer Client/Developer Barncroft Homes Hill Contractor Built on what was previously the surface car park Contractor The Avenue developed 76 new homes in to a Barncroft Homes for the hotel, Parkside is a subtly-articulated four- Hill conservation area in a historic market town. No. Units storey block of 10 apartments. The ground level is No. Units In addition to large detached houses, it includes 10 apartments given over to four commercial units, demonstrating 76 Homes aﬀordable family houses and smaller homes for Category the mixed-use nature of the development. Category the over-55 market. The Avenue demonstrates Town/Village Town/Village a clever mix of coherence and community.

2015 2016 RIBA East Midlands Award RIBA National Award RIBA East Award

14 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 15 RIBA LONDON RIBA LONDON William Street Quarter Silchester

Phase 2 Location 13 Kensington & Chelsea, London Location Architect 12 Barking, London Haworth Tompkins Architect Client/Developer Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Peabody Client/Developer This development is the first entirely privately funded Contractor Situated at the edge of the existing Silchester London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and affordable social housing scheme in the UK. Three Mace Estate, adjacent to Latimer Road Tube Station; their Private Sector Partners Laing O’Rourke. mews streets are lined with family-sized brick terrace No. Units Haworth Tompkins Architects have delivered Contractor houses and define the perimeter of the site once 112 homes a major regeneration project for Peabody. The Laing O’Rourke occupied by the Lintons Estate, while a central Category project integrates an existing twenty-storey No. Units 10-storey tower terminates a mansion-block City tower; providing private and communal amenity 201 homes for social rent lined boulevard. Around 71% of William Street space and a landscaped public realm. Category Quarter has been delivered using innovative offsite Town/Village construction techniques.

2015 2017 RIBA London Award RIBA London Award RIBA National Award

16 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 17 RIBA LONDON RIBA LONDON Royal Albert Wharf Darbishire Place

Phase 1 Location 15 Tower Hamlets, London Location Architect 14 Newham, London Niall McLaughlin Architects Architect Client/Developer Maccreanor Lavington Peabody Client/Developer A new housing scheme in East London which Contractor Darbishire Place was built on an empty site that was Notting Hill Housing Group creates a new community in the Albert Basin at Sandwood Design and Build previously destroyed in WW2 in Darbishire’s Peabody Contractor the east end of the Royal Albert Dock. The tenure No. Units Estate from 1870. The building features affordable Galliford Try includes shared ownership, affordable rent, private 13 homes, 100% affordable housing and social housing and is built to fit the brief of No. Units rented sector housing and market sale. More than Category robust sustainability. As part of the design process 350 mixed tenure homes 40% of the new homes are affordable and as part City for Darbishire Place, consultation meetings were Category of the regeneration, a historic working pump house held with local residents at the community centre. City has been retained at the heart of the development.

2018 2015 RIBA London Award RIBA London Award RIBA National Award RIBA Stirling Prize Shortlist

18 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 19 RIBA LONDON RIBA LONDON Kings Crescent Estate Greenwich Housing

Phases 1 and 2 Location 17 Greenwich, London Location Architect 16 Hackney, London Bell Phillips Architects Architect Client/Developer Karakusevic Carson Architects, Royal Borough of Greenwich Henley Halebrown, Muf architecture/art Kings Crescent Estate represents an intelligent Contractor This development provides aﬀordable, single Client/Developer alternative model to large-scale estate regeneration, Newlyns storey dwellings for people over 60 years old. Hackney Council demolition and rebuild. Informed by extensive No. Units The Council granted funding to construct the 35 Contractor community engagement, the scheme integrates 35 dwellings across 8 small sites new dwellings across 8 small sites. The project Higgins Construction Plc rejuvenated existing social housing and new buildings in the borough has won a Civic Trust Award, RIBA National and No. Units within a transformative public realm strategy. Phases Category regional Awards, and Housing Design Award. 273 new and 101 refurbished homes 1 & 2 were completed in 2018 and have delivered City Category 273 new and 101 refurbished homes out of a wider City 765 home masterplan. The project demonstrates that community and council-led development and the delivery of high-quality, tenure-blind housing can be highly sustainable and achievable.

2018 2016 RIBA South West Award RIBA London Award RIBA South West Sustainability Award RIBA National Award

20 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 21 RIBA LONDON RIBA LONDON Saxon Court and Vaudeville Court

Roseberry Mansions Location 19 Islington, London Location Architect 18 Camden, London Levitt Bernstein Architect Client/Developer Maccreanor Lavington London Borough of Islington Client/Developer The project combines buildings of mixed uses Contractor This project began as an open design competition King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership and tenures. This includes commercial spaces at Mansell exploring new models for affordable, urban, family Contractor ground level with private, affordable and extra care No. Units housing. Levitt Bernstein’s response was based Carillion housing above; along with a series of communal 13 dwellings in a mixture of duplex homes around a philosophy that imagined the scheme No. Units gardens, roof terraces and balconies throughout. Category as a holistic, productive landscape where every Mixed-use development with 220 homes City surface is designed to be useful. 13 dwellings Category replace an area of underused garages, and include City a mixture of duplex homes on the ground and first floors, and two bedroom apartments above. Family homes have gardens and flexible garden rooms, whilst communal gardens are shared with residents of the tower block, and run by the local gardening club. 2014 2016 RIBA London Award RIBA London Award

22 DESIGN MATTERS DESIGN MATTERS 23 RIBA NORTH EAST RIBA NORTH WEST The Malings Timekeepers Square

Location Location 20 Ouseburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 21 Salford, Greater Manchester Architect Architect Ash Sakula Architects Buttress Architects Client/Developer Client/Developer Carillion Igloo English Cities Fund Contractor The Malings is the result of an innovative design Contractor The development is located within the Adelphi/Bexley Gentoo Tolent (now Tolent Living) approach combined with close consultation with John Turner Construction Group Square conservation area with the neo-classical No. Units locals. It uses a variety of residential typologies No. Units Grade II listed St Phillips Church at its centre. The area 76 Homes including townhouses, stacked duplexes, tower 36 townhouses also encompasses a row of Georgian terraces, Category houses, courtyard apartments and back-to-back Category a Victorian courthouse, St John’s RC Cathedral, and Town/Village houses. In this way the design avoids the expected Town/Village the former Town Hall, all of which are Grade II listed. apartment block typologies, and creates instead A primary urban design aim for the project was to aꢀconvivial neighbourhood of houses and streets. reinstate the area’s historic street pattern, where this There are no lifts, common stairs or corridors, had been destroyed, and re-introduce a legibility to the so net to gross is 100%, minimising both cost and streets that would strengthen the area’s centrepiece – service charges. Every home has its own front door St Phillips Church. The strategic plan for Timekeepers onto the street. Square, therefore, has been to create clearly deﬁned rows of terraces that relate in a sensitive and 2017 2018 contemporary manner to neighbouring Georgian RIBA North East Award RIBA North West Award terraces, responding to them in height, massing, and rhythm.

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It is equally important to have the right environment for delivery that will make these places where people want to live possible. The necessary context for successful placemaking is often neglected, but only by addressing this can we improve both the quality of the homes we are building and the rate of supply.

The RIBA’s recent report ‘Places where people want to live’ 10 key characteristics.

TEN CHARACTERISTICS

01 The right place for the right housing

02 A place to start and a place to stay RIBA WEST MIDLANDS 03 A place which fosters a sense of belonging Willow Barns 04 A place to live in nature 05 A place to enjoy and be proud of Location 22 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire 06 A place with a choice of homes Architect PRP 07 A place with unique and lasting appeal Client/Developer 08 A place where people feel at home Sapphire Consortium (The Eric Wright Group, Your Housing Group and Kajima Partnerships) Willow Barns is a thoughtfully conceived response 09 A sustainable place for future generations Contractor to a sensitive site and new community of elderly Eric Wright Construction residents. With a restrained palette of materials, 10 A place where people thrive No. Units the architects have created 75 apartments for 75 Flats affordable rent. They have drawn on the character Category of the area to give the residents new aspirational If you would like read our report or find City homes with a distinctive sense of place. out more about the RIBA’s housing policies and how we can help you, you can either visit our website www.architecture.com or get in touch 2018 with us at public.aff[email protected] or on RIBA West Midlands Award 020 7307 3709.

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