Built to last
Last week saw the annual Housing Design Awards take place in London. Here we profile the overall winner, and list those featured in each category.
Overall winner - Icon Street, Somerset
- Architect - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Developer - Crest Nicholson
- Contractor - Crest Nicholson
- Planning Authority - Mendip District Council
- Public Realm Architect - Grant Associates
A parcel of 138 two and four-bed homes which aims to incorporate the old fashioned nature of the site’s former inhabitant, a shoe factory, with its urbane neighbour, Bath.
It uses public squares, housing squares, boulevards, streets and mews laid out in a hierarchy to manage traffic speed.
Despite the aim to create a predominantly pedestrian area, the scheme accepts people use cars and has incorporated garages into many of the homes.
The homes also possess ‘sound ecology’ features. Forty per cent of the area is public space, the result of a consultation exercise to make sure the existing community would enjoy the new developments.
Completed winners
This award is for schemes that have been completed this year
Armour Close, London, N7
- Architect - HFI Architects
- Developer - Homes for Islington
- Contractor - Mansell
- Planning Authority - London borough of Islington
Barking Central, London, IG11
- Architect - Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
- Developer - Redrow Regeneration
- Contractor - Ardmore Construction
- Planning Authority - London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
- Public Realm Architect - muf
Claredale Street, London, E2
- Architect - Karakusevic Carson
- Developer - Tower Hamlets Community Housing
- Contractor - Hill Partnership
- Planning Authority - London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Connaught Garden, Muswell Hill, London
- Architect - Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects
- Developer - Connaught House Developments
- Contractor - Roof
- Planning Authority - London Borough of Haringay
Museum Court, Lincoln
- Architect - Johnathan Hendry Architects
- Developer - Strait Developments
- Contractor - Robert Woodhead
- Planning Authority - City of Lincoln Council
Project winners
Buzzards Mouth Court, Barking, London
- Architect - Shephard Robson
- Developer - Barking Riverside
- Contractor - Not yet appointed
- Planning Authority - London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Compstall Mills, Stockport
- Architect - Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Developer - Ask Developments
- Contractor - Not yet appointed
- Planning Authority - Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Derwenthorpe Phase 1a, York
- Architect - Richards Partington Architect
- Developer - Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust
- Contractor - Not yet appointed
- Planning Authority - City of York Council
The Library Building, London, SW4
- Architect - Studio Egret West
- Developer - Cathedral (Clapham)
- Contractor - United House
- Planning Authority - London borough of Lambeth
Peabody Avenue, London, SW1V
- Architect - Haworth Tompkins
- Developer - Peabody
- Contractor - Mansell Costruction Services
- Planning Authority - London borough of Lambeth
Shirecliff, Sheffield
- Architect - Stephenson Bell
- Developer - North Sheffield Regeneration Team - Sheffield City Council
- Contractor - Henry Boot Construction
- Planning Authority - Sheffield City Council
The Triangle, Swindon
- Architect - Glenn Howells Architect
- Developer - Hab Oakus
- Contractor - Willmott Dixon
- Planning Authority - Swindon Borough Council
The HAPPI award
The HAPPI award is named after the report into design for housing for older people, and the award is given to the best homes designed for an ageing population.
Completed winner
Heald Farm Court, Newton-Le-Willows
- Architect - DK-Architects
- Developer - Helena Partnerships
- Contractor - Cruden Construction
- Planning Authority - St Helens Council
Project winner
Kidbrooke Extra Care Housing, London, SW3
- Architect - PRP Architects
- Developer - Berkely Homes
- Contractor - Berkely Homes
- Planning Authority - London Borough of Greenwich
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