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Winner of Bristol contest for 100% affordable housing named
The Bristol Housing Festival has named the overall winner of its competition to redevelop a site on Midland Road in the city’s Old Market Quarter
Tag: Housing
A little extra help: The Harriet Hardy Extra Care Centre by Mæ
Mæ has delivered an impressive multifunctional block with generous proportions and support facilities for older residents at Southwark Council’s contentious Aylesbury Estate redevelopment. Photography by Tim Crocker
Witherford Watson Mann rethinks the inner-city almshouse
Appleby Blue sheltered housing is an exemplar of what can be achieved when public, private and voluntary sectors come together and imagination, social awareness and design flair coincide
Angry residents say council heating upgrade will destroy listed Neave Brown estate
Residents, including architects, of London’s celebrated Alexandra Road estate are in uproar over council proposals to fit new heating systems
Bragbury End, Stevenage
Stevenage Borough Council is seeking an architect for 400 new homes on Bragbury End, Hertfordshire [Deadline: 17 January 2024]
Baxendale team gets go-ahead for Scottish scheme with ‘ghost’ gable
Baxendale, working with architectural designer and artist Ecaterina Stefanescu, has won approval for a residential-led ‘new urban corner’ in Beith, North Ayrshire
UCL study highlights unhealthy impacts of permitted development homes
Thousands of homes built under office-to-residential permitted development rights could be harmful to the health of their occupants, an exploratory study by the Bartlett School of Planning has indicated
Lund Quarter, Newham
Populo Living is seeking a design team for the second phase of the 11.7ha Carpenters Estate regeneration in East London [Deadline: 3 January 2024]
Council fury as refusal of 5plus plans for 1,100 Lancashire homes is overturned
The leader of South Ribble Council has hit out after the council’s rejection of a 1,100 home-proposals by 5Plus Architects was overturned on appeal
Bell Phillips awarded £20,000 in William Sutton Prize victory
Bell Philips Architects is one of two winners in Clarion Housing Group’s ideas contest for radical concepts to transform the lives of social housing residents