CoHUT in Newcastle upon Tyne's west end joins 13 other outstanding developments in being named as winners of the 2022 Housing Design Awards.
The Benwell-based plot among others across the United Kingdom represent the very best examples of new housing in the UK, and demonstrate how architects, developers and local authorities are working together to create exceptional places for people to live.
As well as pioneering schemes that positively encourage healthy lifestyles, promote neighbourliness and support everyday family life, this year’s Housing Design Awards winners include urgent responses to the exigent housing shortage and fuel crisis, cohousing design at its very best, along with an exemplary examples of building with nature and celebrating the UK’s industrial heritage.
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This fascinating community-led, intergenerational, cohousing project sits on a brownfield site in Newcastle’s regenerating West End. The 100% affordable and low energy homes provide exceptional value and low running costs, and the development gives residents the space and facilities to use their local landscape to socialise, produce their own food and support local biodiversity.
As well as Newcastle's CoHUT by Mawson Kerr Architects, neighbouring Sunderland also had an entry reap the rewards of success in the Vaux, Sunderland by Proctor and Matthews Architects and Mawson Kerr Architects development.
132 new homes at the Vaux will see a post-industrial site - disused for over 20 years - transformed into one of the UK’s most sustainable and liveable neighbourhoods, and an exemplar of high-density city living and working. Set on the edge of the dramatic River Wear gorge, the distinctive silhouette as viewed from across the water is inspired by Sunderland’s historic industrial skyline, and the architects have cleverly used the site’s topography to maximise views for residents over a rich green landscape.
Here is the full list of all 14 winners of 2022's Housing Design Awards:
- Agar Grove, Camden by Mæ Architects and Hawkins\Brown for Camden Council
- Beaulieu Keep, Chelmsford by Tate Hindle for Countryside Zest
- Carlton Dene, Westminster by Levitt Bernstein for Westminster City Council
- CoHUT, Newcastle upon Tyne by Mawson Kerr Architects for Cohousing upon Tyne/TOWN
- Ducombe Barracks and Burnholme, York by Mikhail Riches for City of York Council
- Fish Island, Tower Hamlets by Haworth Tompkins for Peabody/Hill
- Garrison Lane, Fellixstowe by Tate Hindle for East Suffolk Council
- Kampus, Manchester by shedkm for ASDL (also named as Housing Design Awards 2022 Overall Winner)
- Keybridge, Lambeth by Allies and Morrison for Mount Anvil Ltd/BT Telecommunications
- Lavender Hill, Wandsworth by Sergison Bates Architects for Marston Properties
- Love Wolverton, Milton Keynes by Mikhail Riches for TOWN/Milton Keynes Council
- Riverside Road, Watford by Bell Phillips Architects for Watford Borough Council
- University College, Oxford by Niall McLaughlin Architects for University College Oxford
- Vaux, Sunderland by Proctor and Matthews Architects and Mawson Kerr Architects for Igloo Regeneration Ltd/Sunderland City Council
The annual Housing Design Awards recognise the very best in housing design, and are recognised as the most important and highly regarded awards for housing in the UK. They are highly sought after by architects and developers, and the awards are supported by organisations including Homes England, as well as professional institutions including the RICS, RTPI and the Landscape Institute.
For more information about the winners of the 2022 Housing Design Awards visit www.hdawards.org.
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