Stylish council housing schemes in Hackney, a Peckham house built on a budget of £350,000, and a Japanese-style apartment in the Barbican have all been tipped for a major architectural award.
London housing is top of the agenda for the Riba London Awards 2024, which announced its shortlist today.
The Riba (Royal Institute of British Architects) has an annual awards program to recognise the best new architect-designed buildings in the capital.
“As we seek new housing solutions and innovative approaches to urban regeneration, these projects provide hope for the future of our cities,” said Riba regional director of London Dian Small.
Thirty of the 76 projects shortlisted are individual houses or housing projects.
Al-Jawad Pike had two nominations for its projects for Hackney Council.
The London-based practice known for creating minimalist shops for the likes of Aesop, Burberry and Celine was shortlisted for Tori Ann Walk and Chowdhury Walk, the latter of which created 11 affordable and social rent council homes built on the site of disused garages.
Dover Court Estate by Pollard Thomas Edwards was also shortlisted for its project in Islington, which delivered 70 new homes in eight infill buildings co-developed with the residents of the 1960s estate in Islington.
Some of the homes are wheelchair accessible, and the project also created green spaces, a community centre and a ball court for the residents.
In Tower Hamlets, Orwell House by Bell Phillips was shortlisted for creating 20 new council homes that are available for social rent.
Built on on the 1957 Hoxton housing estate designed by Skinner, Bailey & Lubetkin, the new block nods to its modernist heritage with a faceted facade of pink glass-reinforced concrete.
Sustainable projects were recognised in the Riba shortlist, including Courtyard Housing by Edward Williams Architects, which created 39 homes in four cross-laminated timber buildings built on an old car park, featuring Scandinavian pine cladding and solar panels on the roof.
The Arbour by Boehm Lynas Architects and GS8 also got the nod for delivering 10 carbon-negative, zero-waste and energy positive homes in Walthamstow.
Individual residential projects have also made the shortlist.
Corner Fold House by Whittaker Parsons was shortlisted for building an 88-square metre house on an infill site in Peckham. Squeezed into an infill site between the client’s house and a substation, the red brick and concrete home was built on a budget of £350,000.
Another infill project, Cork House by Polysmiths, was recognised for the owner-architect’s creation of a courtyard house on an infill site, using only the materials they could acquire during the coronavirus lockdowns.
In the Barbican, Shakespeare Tower by Takero Shimazaki Architects was shortlisted for the overhaul of an 8C type apartment, turning it into a traditional Japanese apartment with cherry wood ceilings and tatami mat flooring.
Low Energy House by Architecture for London was shortlisted for the extension and refurbishment of an Edwardian house in Muswell Hill.
Along with a rear extension and loft conversion, the architects insulated the walls with wood fibre, used stone, timber and plaster instead of cement, and installed an air filter to remove pollen and diesel pollutants.
Coppin Dockray’s refurbishment of Hampstead House, one of the handful of homes designed by modernist architect Trevor Dannatt, has also been shortlisted.
Ex-Council House Transformation by VATRAA Architecture, which has already won a Dont Move, Improve! award, got the nod for their emodel of an 1980s council house, featuring pink plaster walls and oak joinery.
Here is the Riba London Awards 2024 shortlist in full:
Abbey Wood Station by Fereday Pollard Architects
Artist Studio by VATRAA Architecture
All Saints by EPR Architects
Battersea Power Station Phase Two by WilkinsonEyre
Bradbury Works by [Y/N] Studio
Brent Cross Town Visitor Pavilion by Moxon Architects
Bromley Old Town Hall by Cartwright Pickard
Camden Market Canopy by vPPR Architects for LabTech
Chowdhury Walk by Al-Jawad Pike
Cork House by Polysmiths
Corner Fold House by Whittaker Parsons
Courtyard Housing by Edward Williams Architects
Dover Court Estate by Pollard Thomas Edwards
Dukes Meadow Footbridge by Moxon Architects
Dulwich House by Proctor & Shaw
Embassy of the Slovak Republic by BD London
Ex-Council House Transformation by VATRAA Architecture
Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins, Lyndon Goode Architects, Pitman Tozer Architects and Bureau de Change
Francis Holland School House by IID Architects
Hampstead House by Coppin Dockray
Hendon Waterside Phase 4, Block H1 by Makower Architects
Highgate House by Emil Eve Architects
Holland Park Garden House by David Money Architects
King's Cross Masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates
Leighton House by BDP
Love Walk II by Knox Bhavan Architects
Low Energy House by Architecture for London
LSBU Hub WilkinsonEyre
Montacute Yards by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
National Portrait Gallery by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell
Oasis Academy Silvertown, by Rivington Street Studio
Olympic Way & Olympic Steps by Dixon Jones and vPPR Architects
Orwell House by Bell Phillips
Oxford Road by Coffey Architects
Paddington Elizabeth Line Station by Weston Williamson + Partners
Peckham House by Surman Weston
Pitzhanger Hub by Jo Townshend Architects
Rotherhithe Primary School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Royal Academy of Dance by Takero Shimazaki Architects
Sambrook's Brewery, RAM Quarter by Roger Mears Architects LLP
Shakespeare Tower by Takero Shimazaki Architects
Six Columns by 31/44 Architects
Somerset Road Covered Courts: All England Lawn Tennis Club by Hopkins Architects
St Andrew’s Holborn by DaeWha Kang Design
St John’s Waterloo by Eric Parry Architects
St. Mary's Walthamstow by Matthew Lloyd Architects
St. Michael's, Fulwell by Malcolm Fryer Architects
Sunday Mills by Assael Architecture
Sycamore House by Jonathan Wilson RIBA
Taper House by Merrett Houmøller Architects, All & Nxthing & Rosebank Landscaping
Technique by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Thames Christian School & Battersea Chapel by Henley Halebrown
The Africa Centre by Freehaus
The Arbour by Boehm Lynas Architects and GS8
The Artists Residence by Gregory Phillips Architects
The Black & White Building by Waugh Thistleton Architects
The Department Store Studios by Squire & Partners
The Elizabeth Line by Grimshaw, Maynard Design, Equation and Atkins
The Gilbert & George Centre by SIRS Architects
The Learning Tree Nursery by Delve Architects
The Parcels Building by Grafton Architects
The Tannery by Coffey Architects
The Tree House by Bell Phillips
The Rowe by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Tori Ann Walk by Al-Jawad Pike
Tottenham Court Road Elizabeth Line station by Hawkins\Brown
Unity Place by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, Gort Scott, RM_A Architects
Urbanest City by APT London and Hopkins Architects
Verna, Acton Gardens by GRID Architects and Countryside Partnerships
White House School by vPPR Architects
White Patio House by Pashenko Works
Woolwich Elizabeth Line Station by Weston Williamson + Partners
67 Southwark Street by Allies and Morrison
10 Lewis Cubitt Square by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
22 Handyside Street by Coffey Architects
